God's will

At the beginning of today's reading section, there was a part where a God was talking. This is what je said: "They (Gilgamesh and Enkidu) have killed the Bull of Heaven and killed Huwawa. One of them must die...Enkidu must die but Gilgamesh, the gifted, must not die." (pg. 37). I picked this quote to comment on because I thought that it was interesting that a God was also discriminative. It was made clear that one of the two had to go, and in my opnion, the fact that "the gifted" must not die is a way of saying that Enkidu was disposable while Gilgamesh was not. I relate this to an activity we had once in class, where we had to pretend that there had been a horrible disaster on Earth, and the only 11 survivors were stuck together in one bunker. Because lifetime would be very limited if we all stayed there with the few resources that we had, the activity consisted on the choosing of 3 characters that would survive and 8 that would not. After the presentation of each group one thing was clear: all of the characters that were either elder, handiccaped or disabled were the first to go, no questions asked. I hope that this mebtality that apparently even the Gods have will soon be gone, because it is unfair with those people that do not have the special abilities that others have.