What I find of interest about this story is the theme of "murdering murderers". Is murdrering a murderer murder? Edgar Watson presumably killed this Cox fellow who was a murderer. When we returning to Chokoliksee was killed. I feel the song hints at the fact he may have simply been gunned down by the crowd. Was this murder? How is it any different than waht E. Watson had just done? If you want to add an addtional layer of ethics, is killing a killer of a killer murder? I think the narrator has a guilty conscience as being part of the crowd that gunned him down without a trial or process of law, outlaw or not, the narrator clearly feels it was murder in my opinion. A reminder that there is never a time when savagery is justified and when the rule of law is discarded, it makes murderers of us all.
What I find of interest about this story is the theme of "murdering murderers". Is murdrering a murderer murder? Edgar Watson presumably killed this Cox fellow who was a murderer. When we returning to Chokoliksee was killed. I feel the song hints at the fact he may have simply been gunned down by the crowd. Was this murder? How is it any different than waht E. Watson had just done? If you want to add an addtional layer of ethics, is killing a killer of a killer murder? I think the narrator has a guilty conscience as being part of the crowd that gunned him down without a trial or process of law, outlaw or not, the narrator clearly feels it was murder in my opinion. A reminder that there is never a time when savagery is justified and when the rule of law is discarded, it makes murderers of us all.