While reading Banach's ideas, I came across a quote, "Can I freely and authentically choose to kill my mother, as Orestes does?." This brings up internal conflict. I believe you can freely kill your mother. However, the problem with executing the action is that part of you will resist. The only time you can successfully kill someone close to you such as your mother is if the motivation for it can break the spiritual barrier. Come on, she's your mother, do I really have to go into specifics? The human mind is never one sided. This being said, I disagree with Banach's whole "Your mind is a T.V screen." You never get one image, one screen in a situation like this one. Part of you will want to do something, but part of you will also resist. What the inside wants can't be put to words, it can only be felt.
To give an example, here's a scene from a video game(can't remember character names....):
(Boy wakes up to find that his father has a knife and is gonna kill him)
Boy: Dad what are you doing?
Guy who manipulated his father: "Yes what ARE you doing, kill him already!"
(Boy's father commits suicide)
King(Boy's father): You were a fool to think that I would kill my son.
This goes back to what I was saying. Although he was manipulated to the point where he was right next to his son with a knife, in the end, his inside overpowered the manipulation which caused him to commit suicide because his love for his son was greater than the control by the manipulator. And it is for this reason we can't kill our mothers or any other loved one. Of course it dosen't just apply to killing your loved ones, but it happens with minor things in everything life and other major examples.
Bryam- You made an interesting point in this post
ReplyDeleteYou basically said that in any decision a person makes, their mind is not one sided, specifically tou talked about a person with the free will to kill their own mother, but because they will have second thoughts on the situation, that will stop them from doing so.
I can completely relate to this because I am a really indecisive person, basically in any decision making I need think to think about what I am doing because I don't want to make the wrong choice.
Maybe you can develop this idea by connecting this to another point Banach made in his lecture or by including other specific examples.
After reading your post I wonder, well are there people who do have one sided minds? How do they come to have this thought process? Is it a good or bad thing to have?
I thought your post was explained in a very effective way. -Sandy