Should Eurylochus Have Killed Helios's Cattle?

Sometimes we find ourselves in a situation with difficult choices. Sometimes people don't take full responsibility with their choices. Making poor decisions slowly leads to consequences.In Homer’s Odyssey Eurylochus should not have killed Helios’s cattle because they were not in need of food, promised they would not, and they knew there would be consequences. Eurylochus should not have killed the cattle because they were not starving.
There was no reason for Eurylochus to kill Helios’s cattle. Eurylochus and his men were trapped on an island for a month by and inopportune wind. The island he and his men were trapped in had a ton of fish. They would never go starving because they could easily catch a fish. Eurylochus and his men promised to Odyssey that they would not eat the cattle.

Odyssey made the men promise that they wouldn't eat the cattle.

They should have never broken their promise. Eurylochus and his men were not brave enough to flat out tell Helios that they were gonna kill the cattle. They knew their would be consequences. Although they were trapped on an island for a month by an inopportune wind, they knew there was gonna be consequences for breaking this oath.
After Eurylochus and his men decided to kill the cattle, they knew their was gonna be consequences. There was no reason to kill the cattle. By Eurylochus and his men killing Helios’s cattle, Odysseus was furious once he found out. They broke their oath, which meant their destruction. Eurylochus and his men should have never killed Helios's cattle.
Although they shouldn't have broken their promise, they still might have really wanted to kill the cattle. There was plenty of fish on the island, but they might not have wanted fish anymore. They might have known their would be consequences but didn't care. Sometimes you have to break promises and deal with the

consequences.
Eurylochus and his men had no real good reason to kill the cattle. They had plenty of fish on the island they had gotten trapped on. Odysseus made him and his men promise they wouldn't kill the cattle. Eurylochus and his men broke that promise and killed the cattle anyways. They didn't think the plan through, therefore there was consequences. People need to take more time and think about their decisions before they end up stuck between problems.