In response to the September 11 attacks, the United States should declare war on the responsible group. As a nation, we should do only the actions that bring about the best consequences, and the best consequences would occur by bringing the responsible group to justice. In this case, killing the Taliban and its supporters is the right action because it produces the greatest amount of good.The theory that we should only do the actions that bring about the best consequences is a consequentialist theory. Consequentialism is correct because if the action taken creates the most possible good, then that action must be the right action. Consequentialism leads to the right action because the right action is the action that produces the greatest amount of good or the least amount of bad. For example killing one person is bad, but killing two people is worse. If you could only choose between killing one person and killing two people, the action that brings about the best consequences is killing one person, because it produces the least amount of bad. The Taliban and terrorist groups like it are a threat to people all over the world. As we have seen with the September 11 attack, they are ruthless and very dangerous. This attack killed 700 people with 4,569 people still missing. (USA Today). These types of groups should not be allowed to roam free to cause havoc on innocent civilians around the world. We cannot let the Taliban continue to kill because they could easily do the same thing again to us or other nations. In order to produce the most good we must quash these terrorist groups before they can strike again. I think that the United States should use force to capture the Taliban terrorist group. We are limited in our actions only by what would bring about the best consequences. I believe that we should start by bombing strategic military targets that could possibly be used by the Taliban against us. After these targets are des...
