Elephants?

Should the man killed the elephant?
Just because something is legal does that make it right?
How does conformity effect everyday life decisions?

Just because something is legal does that make it right?

Just because something is legal it doesn't make it right. People always uses the law for justification for some morally terrible things that they do. It's amazing how it seems like culture defines what is right and wrong instead of set rules that are given to us at birth. For instance some cultures think that is fine and okay to kill dogs and our culture doesn't. Other cultures do not believe in killing cows but our culture thinks that that is totally fine. Killing an elephant to us would be frowned upon yet in some parts of the world it is not frowned upon because of the monetary value of the elephant as illustrated by the story. This seems to be a more deeper issue than just the elephant being killed, it seems like that situation is almost to compare soiecty as a whole. We wake up everyday, put on cloths, go out, come home, sleep, and do it all over again. Our personality almost changes no matter where we are depending on the crowd of people we are with. One probably going out to get wasted with their parents and speak the same way that they talk to their friends. Adding onto that point if someone is in church they are going to dress a certain way and behave a certain way then if they were with friends at a party. It's crazy to see how much influence the people around us have. If a group of people call a certain situation right, that almost becomes right to you as we'll. Thats one of the huge thing that this story is trying to illustrate to us, that just because a society believes one way, it doesn't actually make something to be okay.