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Mersault, my father and I all three have made significant decsions in our life, that will signifcantly alter our lives, with every decsion made, there is always either a positive or negative consequence that comes with rational or irrational thinking.  Mersualts decsions to smoke and drink coffee and be disrespectful at his mothers grave was out of pure emotion.  However, the consequence for this action was that he was chastised by the rest of the community and accused of not really loving his mom.  Not having an emotion, not crying at his own mothers funeral, illustrated his lack of regard for his mother.  Since he was acting out of pure emotion, the consequence was extremly negative.  The persepective that people had of Mersault was significatly altered after his actions at the funeral.  Effectively, his lack of reagard lead to no effeort by the community to aid Mersualt in grieving but to use his lack of regard as a tool to get him into jail.  This effecively compares to my fathers decsion of having to either stay in Iran with his friends, or to go to the states and get an education.  The consequence of my fathers decsion to go to the states lead to him reciving his law degree, which was extremly difficult for someone who could barley speak english.  This lead him to recive more job offers and he started making a lot more money and becoming sucessfull. If he had stayed in Iran, sure he would have had more fun but with the revloution coming, who knows, he might have been killed.  Effectivley, both my fathers decsion and Mersaults decsions were made either out of logic, or out of emotion, thus leading to two different consequences.  Another one of Mersaults decsions was to kill the Arab out of pure emotion.  He had no reason to kill the Arab, yet he still killed him out of emotion and not logic.  The consquence of his actions was finally his demise and his execution.  Mersault's indifference about his trial also effectively communicates his lack of regard for even his own life.  All of these emotions are from irrational thinking and the consequece of his emotional actions is that he is ultamely killed and executed.  Not only is he executed, the community does not care for him or sympatize with him before he is killed.  All of these negative consequences arise from irrational and emotional decsion making.  Mersualt's way of decsion making effectively compares to mine, as I take my time and think about all the positive and negative consequences surrounding my decsion of where to go to college.  The consequence of my decsion will not be seen until later in my life, however if the future happens the way I calculated, my decsion to go to school in Los Angeles, is going to be the best decsion that I have made in my life.  The consequence might be that i dont have as much fun, but the payout of my sucesses will make it all worth while.  Unlike Mersualt, I am looking into the future and realizeing the consequences of my actions.  Mersualts looks only at what is happening in the moment and does not realize the consequences of his actions in the future.