How Does George Make Bad Decisions

There is a major difference between killing someone by accident, versus killing someone on purpose. In the novel, Of Mice and Men, written by George Steinbeck, two young men, one of which, Lennie, was mentally handicapped found themselves in trouble after Lennie accidentally killed the ranch owner’s daughter-in-law. Lennie killed someone by mistake---George pulled the trigger with intention. George’s brash decision to take Lennie’s life should be regarded as a bad decision because he was feeling and not thinking, he had alternative options, and because Lennie had never consented in this.
It is easy to infer that George was listening, mostly, to his heart in this situation that he was to his mind. George had not even had time to think properly on a decision that would carry so many moral ramifications. Time Magazine’s David Hume says about the function of the brain during life and death situations, “We like to think our views on right and wrong are rational, he said, but ultimately they are grounded in emotion.” This proves that George could not logically and rationally think about making the decision that he did. These factors, however, are just provide a small portion of the overwhelming evidence that George made a poor decision to murder Lennie. …show more content…
George and Lennie could have hidden in their secret place until the heat died down, or even just runaway. In the book, it said that Lennie and George were the only ones that knew about that spot and therefore, they could have hidden there. Also based on the time period, they could have slipped away pretty easily given the low security innovations. George had plenty of options that would protect the life of Lennie, but instead decided that he would be the overrule of Lennie's life and take mere human existence into his own