Casey Anthony

              One’s personal happiness should not be an end, but rather good will should determine one’s personal conduct in life. There should be moral good that is extended universally, with not merely the individual’s wishes in mind. An action must not use others selfishly in order to gain a certain result. To evade impure actions and a moral confusion, self-knowledge should be practiced so that one’s will can be improved.

                In the Casey Anthony case, her actions were not following the good will, as she on several accounts acted out of selfish motives rather than for the universal good. For instance, when the police first came to discuss her missing daughter Caylee, Anthony claimed to be doing her own investigation. This was not in the best interests of the entire human population, as she withheld information from the police about her daughter being missing. Already, Anthony seems to have made a morally wrong choice. She should have exercised self-knowledge to conclude that her actions of withholding information and then later giving lies to the public officials on where she lives and who was babysitting her child at the time, were all actions not performed out of duty but out of selfish motives. By putting Casey Anthony under trial, duty is being kept in mind which will benefit everyone by keeping a possible criminal away from others and keeping her accountable for her actions of possible first degree murder and for false information given to authorities.