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I'd rather be lying because I would know of the consequences and how severe it is.

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Societies form to help prolong our survival, which also covers protecting us from one another. By establishing set rules/standards in how we act and treat each other, the impulsive decision to act selfishly takes a backseat and makes us focus on the more beneficial, less selfish action.

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i would rather tell a lie because i hate being lied to

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I would rather tell a lie than be lied to. When you're telling a lie, you are usually aware of the consequences you will face if that lie is exposed as untrue and you know how it will affect others' perception of you. When you're lied to, there's a sense of vulnerability that happens if you find out about the truth, as well as the risk of feeling pity from others/feeling alone because people who are aware of the truth don't tell you.

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The author's choice in character is also to emphasize that vulnerability. By having such different characters -a regular man, a car thief, a prostitute, and a doctor- it strips away association of this affliction to committing/living a life society sees as immoral. In a way, it almost levels each of the characters by making them suffer through something that can't be fixed by class or influence.

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The car thief, doctor, and other people afflicted in the story except for the prostitute were all connected to the blind man. The car thief assisted the man before taking off in his car and the blind man visited the doctor's clinic about his condition. I feel like the woman and patient zero got this affliction at random in order to show that anyone could be rendered vulnerable at any time.

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Is there any reason why blindness is afflicting these specific people?

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does he speak french?

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is he blind too?

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I'd rather be the one lying because if you're the one being told the lie you don't know how big of a lie it may be (if that makes sense), you don't know what you don't know

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He used imagery too but mostly focused on their thoughts

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why does he say we?

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Ok. Peace out.

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The narrator is omniscient and describes the thoughts of each of the characters which is useful to the reader because you get to see how people react to going blind.

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if its not a quarter or more we don't want it

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keep it

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you can keep them

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u don't deserve to hear my opinion

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oh. ok

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Kiley, can you elaborate? I'd like to hear more about your opinion.

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He wasn't originally planning on taking advantage of him, though

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mind your business

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I'm not really sure what the tone is like, the narrator is mostly describing the thoughts and feelings the characters are going through as they go blind. Towards the part with the doctor, the tone feels serious with raising urgency.

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It was a man who saw the original man who went blind suffering and decided to help him. At first he was being a good samaritan but when he took the man home and the man immediately tried to make him leave, he decided it would be really easy for him to steal his car and so he did

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I'd like to add my two cents

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It is more complicated.

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Who was the man who helped him? Was he taking advantage of him or was he being a good samaritan?

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good samaritan who finessed a car

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So it is contagious^

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more complicated

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The original man who went blind caused everyone he came into contact with to go blind, and once his doctor went blind so did his patients.

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Yes it definitely is contagious

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it is contagious

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no

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Is the blindness caught by the affected just looking at someone or is it more complicated?

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Do you think the blindness is really contagious, why or why not?

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Would you have done the same for your significant other and pretended to be blind?

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What do you think this white blindness could represent?
I think the white blindness itself doesn't represent a specific thing, but is meant to emphasize the change in behavior towards those afflicted and the people who are healthy. When the blind man is stricken by it during traffic, people treated him more like an inconvenience, while only a few attempted to figure out what happened and help him.