Thursday, August 28, 2008
Human nature
I think that the Epic of Gilgamesh shows that no matter what someone tries get someone to do something, it is human nature to make decisions that you want to do. An example of this in the book, is when the gods created Enkidu to balance out Gilgamesh and to calm him down. However, the two became like brothers and instead of balancing Gilgamesh out, he joined Gilgamesh. The gods didn't intend for the two to become an unstoppable team and to go killing Humbaba and the bull of heaven. It goes the same for any other human, people choose to make their own decision even if they go against what is right. If everyone didn't do what they wanted there would be no need for police because everyone would follow the laws and decisions would be made for us already. In fact, for the past few days we have been talking about what drives humans to make the different decisions that they do, and it is amazing there are so many different reasons why make a decisions. It is different for everyone and some people obviously make better decisions than others and it is a very important part of human nature.
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