Nowadays, almost everything is based on a decision. People make choices every day. That involves, waking up and either go to work or not go to work, getting to a certain place on time or just get there late, going to the right or going left, etc. As we can see, selections involve pros and cons; and that’s probably what affects the people when they make a choice. Sometimes we are put to so many circumstances in which either selection won’t really be as beneficial as we really hoped for. When parents try to take care of their kids sometimes they can be a little overprotected, and cause them to not realize how things are really. And that’s when the Excerpt from the Republic comes to mind, leading us to the question upon the cave; what position would be best? To live ignorant of the truth but safe in this cave’s comfort or to confront the blinding truth and indifference and rejection by the society including the people you are familiar with?
The best position, in my case, would be to just face the horrible truth even though it involves the indifference and rejection of the society because as sad as it seems it is the truth. On the other hand, imagine being in a cave where you might feel comfortable and even safe, but you don’t know what is going on out there and you’re just ignorant of what is currently occurring. In other words, you’re living a lie. Being in that cave for a long, long time and suddenly going out of it would be of extreme shock for anyone that’s been inside avoiding the truth. That’s what we can see in one of the excerpt’s paragraphs where it says: “when any of them is liberated to stand up and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glair will distress him and he will be unable to see the realities…” This shows us how that person will feel if he/she was put somewhere that they never saw because they were blinded by that cave that they were so used to. As I stated in the introduction, parents and their overprotected children can be a perfect example of this Excerpt. Overprotected children have much more trouble dealing with situations in life more than people that were just independent from the beginning.
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