Summary Of Just Lather That's All

There is never an acceptable reason to commit murder. Murder creates more problems than it solves. For the barber in “Just Lather, That’s All” by Hernando Téllez, murder is not part of being a revolutionary because he knows that it does not solve any political problems but it does, in fact, exacerbate them: "Others come along and still others, and the first ones kill the second ones and they the next ones and it goes on like this until everything is a sea of blood.” (Téllez 16). The barber realizes that by killing Captain Torres, he would be creating more problems and causing more deaths instead of solving problems. In any case, we are not allowed to take law into our own hands and start trying to make reasons for why we are allowed to take