A Letter From Birmingham Jail - 12.1.15

     Personally, I do believe that Martin Luther King Jr's claim that groups of people can be more immoral rather than just individuals can be correct in many circumstances. For example, King talks about how there was a negotiating between he and merchants of Birmingham to remove racist and humiliating signs. The merchant group as a whole had said that they would remove the signs, but they never ended up doing it. The merchants stuck with one another and decided to stick to the immoral ideas that they have come to know as correct. "In these negotiating sessions certain promises were made by the merchants, such as the promise to remove the humiliating racial signs from the stores. we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise. The signs remained. " (King 1) So, in conclusion, King's claim that groups are more immoral than individuals in themselves can be seen as correct through the example of the merchants not fulfilling their promise of removing humiliating racist signs that are inside their stores and/or restaurants.