Actaeon

This story came out The Metamorphoses of Ovid from page 81 to 86. Actaeon is a hunter, one day while hunting out in the forest with his crew and dogs, they come across a cave. This is where the goddess Diana lives. Actaeon gets a little nosy and decides that he wants to take a look around this cave. When he goes to this cave he sees Diana naked with nymphs trying to cover her body. For this great blunder would cost Actaeon his life. Diana then proceeds to make him into a stag. Soon Actaeon goes out and is soon malled and killed by all of his hound dogs; that had once killed other innocent animals lives. This story is just complete irony, Actaeon who once was the hunter soon becomes the hunted. Before he died he finally realized what he was actually doing to animals.

I feel like this is an all to common act going on today. People not really thinking about their actions and because it doesn't effect them they don't care. But when you are put in a situation like Actaeon, where you have to look at it from the other persons or things view point, you take a step back. You realize what you could be doing can really be hurting or effecting someone else. I think that the Iraqi war is a great example of this today in the modern world. When Al Qaeda hit New York City and Washington D.C. we were so jung ho on going to war in Iraq. But what would have happened if Al Qaeda wanted to fight the war over in the U.S., on our home soil? Do you think Bush would have been super stoked on the idea of us fighting a war on our turf? I don't think so. I think the nation would have had to take a step back and think about if this is really what we want. Luckily we did not have to make a choice like that. But I do believe that choice would have helped a lot with the decision making, instead of just going all out because we don't really have any repercussions over here in America, for a war going on half way across the globe.

I think it is important in decision making to not only think about how the decision your making is going to effect yourself, but also everyone and everything surrounding you. I often times feel like people are very selfish in decision making for this reason, they only take themselves into account. I think that a great deal of people can learn a lot from this story of Actaeon, and teach people many great lessons.