"What would have been Orestes' proper course of action had he been living today? Why?"
In the Libation Bearers, we see a man named Orestes attempting to avenge his father's death by killing his mother and her lover. Orestes' mother, Clytemnestra, had killed his father to avenge the death of her daughter. Orestes' father, Agamemnon, had killed the girl in hope of appeasing the gods.
Well, if this was today, all these people would be in prison. The proper course of action would be to go to the court system. More likely, the court system would come to you if they knew of a murder that you were involved in. They would not just stand around like a Dodo bird and do nothing. (I mean no deceased Dodo birds offence by this statement.)
His course of action would have been to report the murder of his father, testify in court, and see his mother go to prison. Then, and only then, could he live a happy, regret-free, and worry-free life.
Today, the proper course of action would be to not go into "serial killer mode". If you did this, then you would be no better than the people/person that had committed the gruesome act that brought upon another's doom.
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