Franklin's Assertion: All actions may be justified through reasoning.

Benjamin Franklin asserts in his Autobiography that anyone can justify their actions through reasoning. He uses an example in which he juxtaposes two of his beliefs: one, that it is unjust to eat fish because you are killing something unprovoked, two, that it is fine, because in nature there is to be a food chain to sustain one another. He states: “if you eat one another, I don’t see why we mayn’t eat you,” referring to the morality of eating fish. However, he also states: “taking of fish ...