Ethics Between Walrus and Carpenter In Alice In Wonderland

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The tale of these two is told by Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee to Alice in the form of a poem. The Walrus and the Carpenter are walking along the beach together and decide that there is too much sand, so they determine to sweep it all away, working on this project for half a year. Once they have swept away all of the sand that they realistically can, they call out to the oysters in the water to come up on shore and talk with them, and tell them that they have treats for them, but only enough for four oysters. The eldest oyster chooses to not leave the oyster bed. However, many young oysters are lured up onto the beach by the promise of a treat. As it turns out, far more than four oysters come up on shore. The Walrus and the Carpenter lead the young oysters on a run along the beach, then sit down to rest and to talk. The Carpenter asks for bread so that they can eat, at which point the oysters become nervous that they are on the menu. The Walrus and the Carpenter do not ...

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or other of the murderer. What the Walrus and the Carpenter have done is to commit the moral violation of lying in order to mislead someone to get what they want out of them under false pretenses, and have then compounded this violation by murdering the ones that they lied to; the violation is made even the worse due to the fact that the murders are committed upon children. There is no moral justification for what they have done.
Of course, it can be argued that the Walrus and the Carpenter were hungry and that oysters were common food to them. This reasoning would make what they did seem more justifiable. However, the manner in which they went about obtaining the oysters was ...

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