How Is George Justified In Of Mice And Men

“In any moment of decision, The best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” Teddy Roosevelt. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, towards the ending (spoiler) one of the main characters, George, has to kill his best friend Lennie after he accidentally kills Curley's wife because she was screaming and he got scared, and broke her neck, killing her. The quote from the beginning relates to this in that George did the right thing killing Lennie after what he did, The question is though, is it justified for George to kill Lennie to save him from the lynch mob heading for his lead by Curly himself. the argument that it was that it was justified, because he was going to do it as an act of mercy, he was thinking about how he could not save Lennie from society and vice versa, and that George could never make money and get Lennie his “American dream”

when George shoots Lennie it was justified in the way that it was in the way of mercy saving Lennie from the torture that Curley would have done to Lennie if George did not kill Lennie himself. George did not want Lennie be killed because of what he did, and in the book George finds the body before everyone else and
But when he gets there he does something wrong again resulting in them having to run yet again. Proving that George could not keep letting Lennie do this to the world without consequence to what he had done, though Lennie could try to teach him to help him he knew he would forget what he