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Posted: 04 Nov 2022

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Huckleberry Finn •
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The Moral Philosophy of Regret •
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. . . Huck, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckleberry_Finn the central chracter of Twain (1885) has helped the slave Jim to escape and realizes that this goes against the moral code in which he was raised. He is depriving Jim’s owner of her property. Bennett en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Bennett_(philosopher) quotes Mark Twain as attributing the following thoughts to Huck:

I knowed very well I had done wrong, and I see it was’t no use for me to try to learn to do right; a body that don’t get started right when he’s little, ain’t got no show. . . Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on -- s’pose you’d done right and give Jum up; would you feel better than what you do not? No, says, I’d feel bad -- I’d feel just the same way I do now. Well, then, says I, what’s the use you learning to do right, when it’s troublesome to do right and ain’t no rouble to do wrong. . . So I reckoned I wouldn’t bother no more about it, but after this always doe whichever come handiest at the time. (Twain 1885, chapter XVI) ~ Page 35

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