The Terrorist Attack

The terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers on September 11, 2001 resulted in the murder of innocent lives that day. The terrorist acted on their religion beliefs that confirmed their doing as faith vs. murder. Though, Americans allow for religion of choice, we simply do not believe in murdering innocent lives as a religion understanding to justify the traumatic event that day. Such a vicious act is based on a feeling of the event happening instead of the reason to why it happened. Reason cannot define such a heinous act only when motivated by desire then one is able to reason why this event took place that day. Religion is one man's belief so do we need reason to question whether their morals are right or wrong.

Johnson & Reath (2012) wrote "In whichever way you take it, you find only certain passions, motives, volitions, and thoughts. There is no other matter of fact in the case" (p. 172). Each individual does not display reason until a feeling is evoked then one must rely on their virtues to reason such a traumatic event that disrupts their lives. Perception plays a greater role in understanding why we simply cannot allow reason to decide what we consider moral. The terrorist that flew two planes into The World Trade Centers were motivated by religion passion. To allow the terrorist to reason would go against their virtues that they so lived by through their religion beliefs. Shaw (1993) tells us Hume felt strongly that all desires must involve some sort of feeling to define someone's action, which would require us not to ignore their introspectible sentiment. In order for something to take place a feeling must be created to spark the initial action thus, resulting in reason being generated from the feeling before we can ever allow reason to come in play. Without virtues no person can understand reason let alone can reason mean nothing other than an individual perception. Shaw (1993) once wrote "according to Hume we adopt the common standpoint, from which moral judgment are made, reason enables us to ignore such peculiarities as variations in distance, time and space and the bearing the action has on our private interest" (p. 34). Hume informs us that we don't question perception we consider it a natural science and that the truth cannot be changed or questioned. Therefore, what is considered to be unpleasant to a certain individual is not based on his action rather his moral belief.