Ender's Game Moral Dilemma Essay

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In Ender’s Game, there is a boy named Ender Wiggin that is a genius. The International Fleet wants to send Ender to battle school to train him to fight against the buggers, an alien species that will invade Earth. Ender defeats the buggers but was tricked into doing so. Ender deeply regretted killing all of the buggers as they were too living things. Then Ender finds a bugger queen egg and waits a long time to put it down and reviving the buggers with it. Along the way to the bugger war and even after the bugger war there are many moral dilemmas that multiple different people have, various of occupation. If you don’t know what a moral dilemma is, a moral dilemma is a situation that requires the person in the moral dilemma to pick a choice, …show more content…

So how is this better than the other choice which is that Ender could have made which is to leave the egg there and forget about it? There are a few reasons. One of them is that without picking up the egg, Ender would still be grieving over the fact that he killed so many living creatures. Even if they were a hated species. This is shown clearly as Ender said “I didn’t want to kill them all. I didn’t want to kill anybody! I’m not a killer!” (Card 297). As we can see from this, Ender did not want to kill the buggers in the first place. Ender is shown to be living off of a guilty conscience that was created by killing so many. The text says that “always Ender carried with him a dry white cocoon, looking for the world where the hive-queen could awaken and thrive in peace. He looked a long time” (Card 324). From this, we can see how much Ender is willing to do to bring back the race that he had killed as he searched a very long time to try to find a perfect place to put the bugger queen egg and bring back the bugger race. So for Ender’s moral, the choice that Ender made was the right one as it allowed to make Ender believe that he had done something good rather than the other choice which would give Ender unlimited fame and popularity but would leave Ender with a feeling of despair for all of the lives he took for

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