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A Question of Morality

"The question posed here was most beautifully answered by the wolf, but not so well by the man. The wolf was able to tell us his point of view. He is immortal and cursed, and yet he feels like he died a long time ago. He does not give due credit to immortality and emphasizes the importance of dying at the right time. Death is nothing to be afraid of. "It is the next big adventure" to put it in the words of kooky Albus Dumbledore. The man, on the other hand, is human and lives for one day. His point of view isn't very clear. I did not fully understand what he meant by "My time is far ahead of now". Did he mean the time of his death? If that was the case, then his tragic demise at the hands of the wolf was beyond ironic. Did he mean the time of his mental state? That he was so far gone into something beautiful and deep, he wasn't fit to comment about living for one day. It was a good moral question which left me grappling for an answer myself. In the end, I would disagree with the wolf, and quite hypocritically chose the option of being immortal and cursed. Life, in whatever form, is beautiful. Death is a whole big expanse of ... nothing."

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