by R. Elizabeth Love

Created on: November 12, 2009

I'm a loving sister. I have 5 brothers and if any one of them committed murder and I knew about it, I most certainly would turn them in. Not because I don't love them or I'm a snitch, but right is right and wrong is wrong. Don't care who or what is involved. Murder is against the law. There are prisons with murderers sitting there to think about what they've done. That's just that on that.

Yes, it is absolutely ethical to turn in your brother or any other family member for that matter for murder. Why wouldn't it be? Because they're family? So?! Who really gives a damn? They murdered a member of someone else's family. It just wouldn't be right or safe for that matter to allow them to walk the streets and go on as if nothing happened.

Ethical-of or relating to ethics; conforming to accepted and esp. professional standards of conduct.

Murder-the crime of unlawfully killing a person

Looking up the definitions of these words in the dictionary are the definitions I found and mentioned prior to this statement.

Look at it this way. It's your brother who has been killed but by somebody else's brother. You want justice right? You want the law to handle it's business and do what needs to be done. Do you really want the murderer's sibling standing in the background going on and on about how they can't tell you who killed your brother because it wouldn't be ethical to turn them in? Screw that! We have laws and we have them for a reason.

I've had this happen to me once. Not my brother but a family member nonetheless. It was no accident. It was planned, and it took forever to find out who did it because nobody would come forward. It was excruciating not knowing. Not only were we in mourning but we wanted to know, we needed that closure who would do such a thing, and why? Personally I needed to speak with the idiot for my closure.

Any family would want and need that closure. To see justice being done. To look the murderer in the eyes and let them know that because of their stupidity they've hurt and a whole family and should be punished for their actions.

We're all apart of somebody's family. It's not fair and as a matter or fact its not ethical to keep information like that simply because someone is related to you. How would you feel if someone from your family were murdered and you don't know who did it? There may actually be somebody sitting there just knowing and not saying anything because its their family. My mom told me once before "you're big enough now. You make a mess, you clean it up." Same thing here. It's not your mess but the mess of a family member. While no one wants to see anyone close to them sentenced to life in jail, a death penalty or anything of that nature, but it is what it is. Everything you do in life has consequences and it's only fair that we as humans and adults face the consequences behind our actions.

I stand firm with my opinion that is absolutely ethical to turn in your brother for murder.

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