The Impact Decision Making Has on the Society

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It is difficult to make life decisions when knowing that it is all up to you to make the right choice not knowing what the outcome is. In “Gregory” by Panos Ionannides, the soldier has to decide whether to follow the headquarters or his own instincts. Furthermore, in “Just Lather, That’s All” the barber also has to make a choice in a small amount of time, to either kill Torres or not. Moreover, he has no orders to kill Torres it was his own decision to kill someone. The protagonists in “Gregory” and “Just Lather, That’s All” both face moral dilemmas throughout the stories. In the short story “Gregory” by Panos Ionannides, the soldier decides to follow his ethics. In the story “Just Lather That’s All” by Hernando Tellez, the barber has chosen to go towards his morals. Both the soldier and the barber portray that they both need to make decisions that are wise.
The short stories “Just Lather that’s all” and “Gregory” have pressure from their own instincts or from someone else’s orders. The pressure which the main characters face in the story is that they have to be obligatigated to make a careful decision because it can affect someone’s life any minute or second. The soldier is in a position where he has to conclude whether he is going to kill his daring friend or face the head quarters with a great amount of risks. “Gregory” is a story about loyalty, friendship and irony which the soldier realizes his circumstances are difficult. The head quarters’ message was very clear and indicated “As soon as Lieutenant Rafel’s execution is announced, the hostage Gregory is to be shot and his body must be hanged from a telegraph pole in the main street as an exemplary punishment”(Ioannides, 4). This quote depicts tha...

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In both stories both character’s bases on moral and ethical decisions. The choices which one makes can result in such a huge outcome of either right or wrong. The stories similarity of the soldier and the barber is by their loyalty, this because they both thought about the consequences of killing somebody and the outcomes. Withal, they both think about themselves before somebody else, because the soldier knew if he does not kill Gregory he will be in danger. Whereas, the barber knows that if he killed Torres he would be killed by the revolutionaries. People have both moral and ethics, which they have to conclude knowing which outcome, is better for them or the situation that they are placed in. The results of right or wrong can ultimately disappear knowing that the choices of that individual can appear and lead them to a reasonable moral or ethical choice.

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