Both butchers and policemen protect us from our true nature and provide people their most basic level of security. The tasks that these people are assigned can be said to suppress the primitive drive within our natures- the butcher keeps us from murdering animals ourselves, allowing ourselves to feel the angst when life is taken away from those held close to us. Without the butcher as a middleman, we would have to kill the animals ourselves, which would be the opening to the instability of the human mind. The police are a representation that there must law and order for chaos to not ensue. If there was never a punishment for a crime, people’s true motives and true natures would be revealed. Also, by the police enforcing the law and attacking/hurting/killing the criminals, we as a people are relieved of that burden as well. Having to commit those actions would bring out the animalistic and primal instincts of our humanity.
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By: Ryan Chung, Stephanie Kim, Athena Mao, and Teresa Yoon (Period 6) ArchivesCategories |