The end justifies the means: To preserve their species and way of life, the people of Labrador are justified in their various measures taken to ensure the Purity of their species. [edited]
Stand: I do not agree that the people of Labrador are justified in their various measures to ensure the Purity of their species.
PEEP: They should not kill, exile or sterilize the blasphemies in the society. It would be unfair to them as they did not choose to be blasphemy with Deviations. For example, Sophie is a normal girl with an extra toe on each feet. However, she did not choose to have an extra toe, and live in fear. Thus, it will not be fair to kill them just because they want to preserve their species and way of life. "She was simply an ordinary little girl- if a great deal more sensible and braver than most." this shows that in the opinion of David, Sophie's toe did not change her. In fact, she was more obedient and courageousthan the norms. Moreover an extra toe did not change her personality and character. Thus she should not be punished for that. Although people in Labrador are not very supportive of Joseph Strom's idea of purity, it did not stop him from continuing his mindset. "There were people who disapproved of his meticulousness, saying that the local Deviation-rate, which ahd shown a steady overall improvement and now stood at half what it had been in my grandfather's time..." proves that people of Labrador did disapprove of Joseph's way of preserving Purity. He is determined to attain his goal, which is to keep Waknuk's great name for Purity. "All the same, the Waknuk district had a great name for Purity." shows that whatever measure Joseph Strom had implied was to keep Waknuk's reputaion.
