Reasons

[lemmingllama]

Do we always need a reason for choosing one course of action rather than another? Let us ponder this problem with a hypothetical situation. So you are an ass (the donkey kind, though you may be the other kind too) and before you are two bales of hay. One is just as far away from you as the other. They are both just as delicious and are the same size. There seems to be no specific reason to choose one over the other. Now you are suddenly very hungry. How can you choose one of the bales of hay over the other, since they are just as equally delicious and are identical in every possible way. So shouldnt you have a reason to choose one bale of hay over the other before you go to eat one?

[CaNzCo]

Well, if you are trying to get me to say it is okay to make illogical decisions all the time, you are out of luck LL.

There is a big difference between doing something for a good reason, and doing something because the options are all unimportant. As for the hay, of course you should just pick one and eat, but this is because both options are good. The same is true for things that don't matter, like what you are gonna wear today, or bad options, like what to eat at McDonald. In other words, there is a reason to do these things.

[shyguysteve]

Reasons in today's world are more controlled by experience.

1 example: a person who walks the same path everyday after school one day decides to take a different route, this could be influenced by any number of variables. Now it could have been a friend told the person to, or maybe the original route was blocked, maybe the person just wanted to try something different.

It could be for any reason at all that just one time this person changes their route in life.

example 2: One person may have been attacked in public for money, and possibly held a grudge against the public or maybe even became racist due to this outside action. Or maybe they've become humble and accepted that maybe the attackers was in such dire need of money that they have been pushed to attack.

Reasons today are indeed influenced by past experiences, but not always was the human nature.

Instincts are what use to be the basis for our primitive actions, basically to ensure our very survival.

We would not dare approach an enemy we knew could destroy us, but we would offer assistance if it meant this enemy would no longer be a threat.

When it comes down to survival and choosing of food, we would choose something before dieing, maybe something was closer or maybe because something was out of reach you wanted it simply for the challenge.

Now this is not always true, people through out history and animals alike have all shown one distinct action more times then any other, which is protecting the young and next generation.

But even that isn't always true.

Some people don't possess the capable understanding to make a reason to do anything, sometimes people act on shear will, like those who are labeled clinically "insane".

Reasons, no reasons, whatever it maybe why we do things the answer wont be clear, but it is endless as are the very choices we make everyday; to do what we do everyday.

But this is my observation and my answer to the question; is something will happen before nothing. My answer or my reply is rather from only one point of view, because the people who do the same thing everyone else does is labeled ordinary, but someone who does something no one or not many dare to do is labeled extraordinary.