his own morality Huck helps Jim escape towards freedom. For us it would not only be our morality but also our sympathy that would lead us to help Jim escape his owners, for Huck though, his sympathy towards his friend goes straight against his morality. In rural Missouri slaves were once considered property, Huck thought of Jim as Miss Watson’s property and felt bad for stealing Jim. This feeling worsens when Jim says that he will try to buy back his family from Miss Watson and if that doesn’t work then he will try to steal them back. At one point Huck’s conscience got the best of him and he was ready to turn Jim in, but when the moment of truth came he didn’t turn Jim in. He wasn’t overjoyed of this fact. He felt worse about himself than he had before. As Bennett wrote “Huck doesn’t weigh the pros and cons: he simply fails to do what he believes is right.” (Arthur Pg.72). After Jim is free Huck returns to the raft he used to help Jim and makes a decision: He will give up morality and principle altogether and just go be what feels good at the moment because no matter what he does he would still feel bad about it afterwards. While we would praise Huck for this decision because his sympathies are good and his morality evil we would not do the same if someone rejected our own morality. Huck never questions the morality of owning another human being because it is the morality that he grew up with; it has been ingrained into his very bones so that after he helped Jim out he felt like a villain.Reading the philosophers makes me wonder what they would say at my predicament, but I realize that what they say would not matter. I do not regret a single decision I have made, but no matter if they said that I was a bad person or good would I change my answers.Ethical theory is almost like singing. Everybody does it to a certain extent but only a few are good at it or do it as a job. We a...
