In this particular case one might argue as the initial jury did that the killing of the cabin boy was wrong and that it was an unethical and immoral activity simply based on the fact that murder is wrong others might look at the same situation and say that in this case it was the sacrifice of one in order to save three and one of the conclusions that was made afterwards that the other three would have most likely died so essentially all four of them would have been dead by the time they were found by the passing ship had they not killed the cabin boy. 