Ethical Issues In To Kill A Mockingbird

When all this happened people didn't know right from wrong they believed what they said went even if it hurt others. In the book Harper Lee appointed it quite well that even though people are people it didn't matter as long as their color. A colored man falling in love with a caucasian women was unheard of.We all may be human but white men and women had it easy compared to the colored men and women.So when something happens or someone accuses of this happening people go for what they think and know is correct. The beliefs system In the 1950’s everything was different to the way we dress,to are beliefs and the way we treated each other. Especially back then if you were colored it didn’t matter if what you did or didn’t do was good or bad. You were to blame many men and women were sentenced to death for a crime in latter
years we realized was no reason to die for.
( Tom Robinson a colored gentleman was accused of raping a caucasian girl there was no evidence no doctors approval saying she had been touched just a black eye and what her father said.) There was no reason to actually believe he had actually raped Mayella ewell but they had a trial for him either way the only reason they had a trial was because atticus stood for him.(315)Either ways it was an unfair trial and he was sentenced and then killed not shot only once but 17 times.
He was injured and he wasn’t even running away,though he still got shot. No Fair Trials or reasoning

Even if they had good evidence saying that the person may have not done it they still accused them. It was an inequality based system to which many people were to scared to stand up for the person being accused of the crime.
(254)Tom Robinson only had the evidence of mayella and her fathers reasoning of what he did.There was marks on her but Tom Robinson was injured and he was right handed. Atticus had proved and gave good evidence that mayella’s father could have been the culprit of her injuries. (282)The judge realized it but they still considered him
guilty.

Racism back then and how it affected everyone

In the 1950’s there was so much segregation different bathrooms,jobs,buses,house streets. Every person back then was either scared or agreed with the people to say something.What they did was terribly wrong and the separation only caused more caose with the children. They had no idea what was happening when they were out they were scared because either people were looking at them weird or they were made to be mean to another just because of their race. Scout was so confused as to why someone would put a man in jail for a crime they had no proof or evidence on what he'd done,They had no reason as to believe that he'd done it either seeing as he was hurt. What they did was not fair for themselves or their children they were still innocent they had no idea what was wrong they thought that a person is a person no matter the color of skin and they were right. The cockieness and stupidity of people back then caused so many lives to end and caused so many innocent kids to have to grow up too soon they had to be there own person they had to care for themselves.
My point in writing this is to make people realize that even though what they were doing they thought was for the good it ruined so many lives and so many families of the stupidity of racism. It could have all been different now if they would have just been civil with each other and had equal rights my lesson im trying to put through is don’t be racist because you have no idea how many lives you are running there are so many innocent people and you are tearing them apart.Every single thing a person does or says effects another make sure to watch what you do and say even if everyone doesn’t agree try to find the best reasoning so stuff like this doesn’t affect people like it did back then.