What is the point in being good? Is it to stay out of jail and avoid prison that we choose to not commit crimes? Or do we commit crimes irrespective of the consequences, without foresight, or the intelligence to realize we will be caught unless we can truly outwit authority. As we all know most criminals are as witless as Epimetheus, lacking the foresight their gifted brother, Prometheus, the fire-bringer, bears. Consider the reasons we choose to act in ways that lead to end our acceptance of the social contract.
Can humans really be divided so simply into mutually exclusive groupings such as occurs in Greek mythology? And are the Olympian gods the authorities who mete out punishment and justice and the Brothers Titan are the heroes who suffer each in their own way from their defeat in the war against Zeus and his brethren?
As Epimetheus receives the gift of Pandora from the gods...
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