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In a situation where each individual lives individually, without the help or contact of others, morality would, to me, fail due to the lack of a social group to reinforce what the mass feels is right/wrong. However, due to the enormous socities that we encounter each day, whether it be at work, on the subway or elsewhere, a general consensus has been born bred, this being " Value the group over the individual". Although it is "immoral" to kill someone, this offense is dismissed easier if, say, you have killed someone endangering "the group". However, due the human need for leadership and the need to be a leader, conflicts arise due the question "if it was right for him in that situation, why was it not right for me in this situation?" This is, as I have seen, why we have set up policemen/women or other socialistic vigilantes who are above the law in cases such as these. The individual, though not having the right to kill, may ask a society that is to represent justice to commit the murder if they judge it is a due cause.
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