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    Macbeth committed multiple murders to gain power, including killing King Duncan and Banquo. The document asks how these murders and other immoral acts by Macbeth, such as framing innocent servants for Duncan's murder, could possibly be justified even if they achieved his desired end of becoming king. It argues that according to moral and natural law, the ends do not justify the means, and murder is never acceptable.

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    Macbeth committed multiple murders to gain power, including killing King Duncan and Banquo. The document asks how these murders and other immoral acts by Macbeth, such as framing innocent servants for Duncan's murder, could possibly be justified even if they achieved his desired end of becoming king. It argues that according to moral and natural law, the ends do not justify the means, and murder is never acceptable.

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    Macbeth committed multiple murders to gain power, including killing King Duncan and Banquo. The document asks how these murders and other immoral acts by Macbeth, such as framing innocent servants for Duncan's murder, could possibly be justified even if they achieved his desired end of becoming king. It argues that according to moral and natural law, the ends do not justify the means, and murder is never acceptable.

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    Assuming that the opposition takes the “end justifies the means” stand, here are logical

    questions to ask:

     According to moral and natural law, even for civic law, murder is not justifiable. How,
    then, would one justify Macbeth’s murder/killing of Duncan? Of Banquo? Of Macduff’s
    family?
     Just to feed his greed for power, Macbeth resorted to immoral means. How are those
    justified?
     To wash their hands clean of the murder, they smeared blood into the servants they
    drugged to sleep and picked on them for the crime. How is that justified? Is it, then,
    justifiable to commit a crime and blame it on others?

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