Paul Merrill	3/2/06
How C.S. Lewis’s Idea of the Law of Human Nature Applies to me here and now.
I believe that C.S. Lewis’ article applies to me here and now because we are faced with these moral dilemma’s everyday and we need to see that our nature can affect the way we think, the way we act, and the way that we get see different situations.  One of his examples that sticks out in my mind from the reading, is the example where he states that if someone was injured and you saw them, the three things that go into one’s mind are: 1) a desire to give help (herd instict), 2)  another would be to keep out of danger, 3) the last would be to follow your impulse to help and suppress the impulse to run  away.  I believe that anyone who attends this school should automatically execute choice one.  I actually had an encounter over the summer.  I worked as a life guard and two twenty something girls came into the pool on a very slow day and asked if I knew how to jump a car battery.  I did, and I thought for a minute what if these are bad people? I had certainly never met them before, but why would I want to help them.  My conscience took over and I decided that it would be ok.  Now what I didn’t know was that I had to get in their other car and drive a few minutes away.  At this point I was trapped, but I could have tried to decline.  I thought about just going back to work and saying that I actually didn’t know, but as you know in  number three above I suppressed my impulse to run and took up their offer.  Another thing that applies to my life is that sometimes we get caught up thinking that we are doing something because it is out our human nature and we can’t stop that.  An example of this would be the way we act as boys.  As the saying goes, “boys will be boys,” but why do we fall into that stereotype? It’s not human nature it is something that is beyond us here and now.