Problem of choice


At the heart of moral choice is always the struggle between bad and good, right and wrong, honest and dishonest, selfish desires and the desire to help people. Ultimately, a moral choice is always a choice between good and evil. Each of us comes with a moral choice. So,

Definitely chooses to help the wounded soldiers. returning home after the Battle of Borodino. She understands that they will not have enough strength to get out of the city, which from day to day will be captured by Napoleon’s troops. Therefore, the girl, without regret, forces the parents to give the wounded the carts designed to transport numerous things from their home. A completely different choice is made by the son-in-law of the Rostov family – Berg. For him, the main thing now is to cash in, it’s profitable to buy things that the owners are happy to sell for a pittance. He comes to the Rostovs with a single request – to give him peasants and a cart to immerse the locker and wardrobe

that attracted him.

It also makes its moral choice. And it does not differ much from the choice of the majority of representatives of the “Famous society”. For him, the most important thing is not honor, not conscience, not decency, but profit, “warm place”, connections, in order to successfully establish the necessary acquaintances and climb up the social and career ladder. Therefore, the “methods” to achieve all this in Molchanin are very diverse – hypocrisy, deception, sycophancy, flattery, rejection of one’s own opinion and much, much more.

During the Crimean War, the famous doctor Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov asks to send him to Sevastopol, as he knows about the difficult situation of the garrison guarding the city. The doctor is refused, saying that he and in the rear have a lot of work. But Pirogov shows perseverance and achieves his. Later he said that he simply could not sit at home knowing how the help of an experienced surgeon is needed for people who suffered during the defense of the city.


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Problem of choice