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Is Zeus Being Rational?
I don't know that ration is something the gods possess or even understand. I mean, i can only look at the language as translated in englishwher it's said that he was in defiance of the gods. He defied the gods, which implies that there was some sort of a agreement that ous rel what was the gods was the gods, and what was man was man's and they should not be shared. Andfor that, that sounds like a very zeus thing to do. So is, is zeus being rational here? A, well, do you think he's beingrational here? Do rationality matter to a god? Ye, i don't think so.
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