Benjamin Franklin's 'Benjamin Franklin Falling For Temptations'

Falling For Temptations In “ The Whistle” a short essay by Benjamin Franklin, he observes that people sacrifice too much for their temptations, he demonstrates this by illustrating people who make impulse decisions.
One type of person who falls for their temptations is someone who gives into something just to fulfill an immediate desire. The first example in Franklin's story, is himself. He explains how he falls for the idea of this great whistle, and he gives all he has for it, despite the actual cost of it. “I went directly to a shop where there they sold toys for children; and being charmed with the sound of a whistle , that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one” (Franklin 46).

One other example used in Franklin's story would be when he states “When I met with a man of pleasure, sacrificing every laudable improvement of the mind, or of his fortune to mere corporeal sensations, and ruining his health in their pursuit” (Franklin 46). This man is providing harm to himself rather than pleasure. The man sacrifices every “laudable improvement of the mind” (Franklin 46) just to fulfill a strong desire. Franklin tells the man “You gave too much for the whistle” (Franklin 46). What Franklin means by saying this is that the man did the same thing Franklin did when he bought the whistle. Didn’t think twice, just acted. The man was willing to sacrifice what he had for a simple temptation. This is often seen in real life situations, and is portrayed very often in many movies. A man or woman can be very tempted to cheat on his or her spouse due to lust and their sexual desire to have that someone else . Often enough, though this can be subsided, but it’s when it can’t that it gets very dangerous. For example on the movie The Other Woman the husband is cheating on his wife with not only one, but multiple partners because he feels insecure about himself and feels the need to have multiple women in his life to make himself feel “wanted”. It’s instances like these that people need to think twice before something happens to determine if it’s really worth the consequences because something that catastrophic will have a great impact for more than one