/lit/ - Literature

Was the garden real or just a metaphor?

>>9553621
Genesis.

>>9466027
I feel that position to be too reductive. If aggression were such a prime directive, then it would not be stopped by more, nor would it need to be sublimated in the form of guilt, as it often isn't (see: non-physical aggression and shame, intellectual and artistic endeavours, etc.).

My question here is, what is particular about guilt? Why choose to chastisize one self instead of something alien? I believe guilt has more to do with autonomy than with servitude or peace or whatever. One is guilty because one's constituent opposition is internal rather than external, i.e. one exists outside of conditions. Therefore free will. In this way guilt is an even greater form of rejection towards the world than common aggression.

Why didn't they just eat the snake?