MAN'S FREEDOM, ccc 1730

1730 God created man a rational being, conferring on him the dignity of a person who can initiate and control his own actions. "God willed that man should be 'left in the hand of his own counsel,' so that he might of his own accord seek his Creator and freely attain his full and blessed perfection by cleaving to him."

Man is rational and therefore like God; he is created with free will and is master over his acts.

Response:

Does man have the ability to be rational? If I look at it logically, man has the ability to show strength and muscles versus woman the ability to nurture. I believe man and woman both have objective roles and they are not the same. men tends to do unexplainable things in hope of a woman’s attention, women like to tease. We each have our own individual roles to play. Women are better at nurturing; men are better at protecting. Maybe the protective atmosphere tends to outweigh the emotion creating the ability to make a rational decision for the whole family unit. In this scenario it’s possible for man to be rational depending on his priorities.