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The best thing to represent me (or, at least the most appropriate copy-right free image I could find) would have to be a scale, such as the the one in the picture above. Of course, most people would look at this type of scale and recognize it as the symbol of justice, but this isn't necessarily the reason I chose to pick this picture. I decided to use this picture to represent myself because I believe that a moral life consists of weighted values, and the main question of a persons life should eternally remain, what means the most to //me?// Just as a scale states the difference between the weight of two objects, I think that it's just as important to be able to do the same thing within my mind. To take multiple ideas, place them next to each other, and make a rational //decision// based on what's going to make you truly happy, is the ultimate good that a person can do, not only for themselves, but the people around them. I think that the more decisions I'm able to make on my own the knowledge, the more I benefit from my decision, whether it turns out to be the correct choice, or the wrong choice. When the scale is taken away, there is no way to decide what weighs more, no way to decide what's more purposeful, and worst of all- there's no way to know how or why we are making the decision that we are. Ironically, the one flaw that I wish to point out is that the pistol weighs more than the gavel. I don't necessarily agree with this, because I think that it's wrong for the use of murder to be something that carries weight in a decision. On the other hand, that's the kind of quality you get with copyright free photos. You may say, "What does this have to do with your interests or your personality?" In summary, I think that no matter what music I listen to, what books I read, and the people I consider to be my friends, it all comes down to the scale, because life truly is like a big scale. When making a choice between two things, there's always one that weighs more than the other, and I always choose to pick the one that is worth more to me.