How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man? And don't tell me that the answer is?

Question

blowing in the wind. This IS the philosophy category! Be original please

Answer 1

I don't think it's necessarily a number of roads as it is the willingness of the man to walk those roads in another's shoes, or with the weight of another upon his shoulders.

Answer 2

He must only walk down one road. As a boy he will run in circles at the crossroads. As a teenager he will brave the dangers and travel a ways down each road he sees. As a young man he will try to find whatever adventures traveling long trips on a few paths. But when you truly become a man, you put your head down and walk just one road, they all lead to the same fate, whatever life has chosen for you. So when he finally walks down that 1, he's really walking it, up until that point, it's always with the intention of going back to the starting point to start over.

Answer 3

It's the types of roads he chooses, not the quantity. Each road must be unique from any other although to understand the rest of society some roads must be like all others. Only then can a man or woman say that he or she is a whole person.

Answer 4

Time is more important: at 24 I would have said 20 years, 34: 30, 44 now I'm certain it takes at least 40 years of walking down roads etc.

Answer 5

Uhhhh...strictly speaking this question is a logical absurdity. Turgidity is not profundity, no matter how entrenched it is our gestalt.That the is the object of the sentence is called a man ascertains that the specified goal of being called a man has already been attained. So much for precision, who cares.......

What is more interesting to me is that nearly all of us respond to this question as we have been conditioned to do rather than on an analysis of its actual content. It's a Rorschac test rather than a hypothetical question.

Yet, it is awe-inspiring to me that in spite of this imprecision nearly all of us do search for some pathway of fostering meaning prompted by this zen-like question. I am reminded of Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle where the deity informs the first man that if that man wants life to have purpose then that man will have to do the job. The purpose of human life is to give purpose to human life (even if he believes that he defers that work to some other entity).

My next question then is why are the reliability of specific purposes and roads so widely ignored?
By extension, how well do any of us factor in our inescapable self-delusion ?
Is it true, so to speak , "There is, after all, no zen."

Answer 6

Only one, the road he is meant to take as a MAN, the road of responsibility. Until a male is responsible for someone else´s well-being, he is not truly a man.

Answer 7

Call him a man because he chooses to walk down a road.

Answer 8

bahaha...I almost did say that because I am actually listening to that song right now. So I read the question, and I was just like, whoa...crazy. I think it depends more on how he's changed and matured from being a crazy teenager, to being able to make a decision that is right, but difficult and not just taking the easy way out of things like most teenage boys do.

Answer 9

Bob Dylan

Answer 10

You can call him a man whenever you choose.
You can call yourself a man whenever you choose.
Everyone's concept of what a man is is different.
Mine isn't about how many roads he walks, but what his behavior is like along the journey/path.