The Real Solution to Terrorism

Topic: Hijack!

Hijack



If a terrorist hijacked a United States airline my first response would be "What is the reason this is happening?" Our current president and past presidents have always played out the idea that terrorist acts are carried out through evil and hate against the United States. They have never admitted any of these acts being in result of actions taken by the U.S government.In my opinion, there has to be more reason behind these terrorist acts that we don't see on television or read in the newspaper. I believe it has some to do with our foreign trade policy and the restrictions that foreigners have to deal with. The United States always seems to have to be in control of the rest of the world and has reputation of being the best and most powerful country. Yet the U.S depends on many foreign countries for our resources and goods. I think that besides dealing with trade the United States should leave all of the other countries in the world alone. I think that it would cut down on all these terrorist acts. And it is just crazy to keep sending our military over to these countries in resulting in most of them being killed or badly injured.

My solution to this hijack situation would be to have a trade-off with this terrorist. I would arrange a meeting place and bring all of the convicted criminals that have been requested to be set free and let them go as soon as I knew all of the passengers on the plane were safe and away from harm. The lives of those people are more important than trying to take down the terrorist right away and the convicted criminals could always be recaptured. If the terrorists decided to take these convicted criminals across the border it would probably do them more harm than good and it would take them off our backs. And if they caused any more trouble to the U.S or when they come back to the U.S they could be recaptured. So you can see that the request of releasing these convicted criminals is not as bad as it sounds to be.

But now a days Bush would probably send in military to try and take down the terrorist immediately verses trying to solve the problem and get the passengers off the plane and home safe. Which would break out into an even bigger problem and end up in more lives lost. And we wouldn't even hear anything about what the U.S did if the end result was bad, only that a terrorist killed a plan full of people out of pure hatred. There's always two sides to every story and I feel that our political leaders neglect to fill us in on both sides in these situations. They do this to make us feel more secure about who's running our country, when in reality we should probably question all these terrorist threats and actions towards our country and not just simply think it was nothing that the U.S did.

Relativist Vs. Absolutist

Topic: Right or Wronghttp://litmuse.net/prompt_rightorwrong Relativism is the belief that all points of view and moralities are true, that everyone has their own judgement of right and wrong, depending on their background and situation in life. Absolutism is the belief that there are very specific standards set on what is right or wrong. In absolutism there are no gray areas, which in life I believe that there are many. So obvisiously, I side with relativism.There are many moral issues today that need to be open to interpretation. Absolutism is more of an old-fashioned way of thinking in my opinion. People need to be more open and understanding of other people's points of views and situations, not the obvious and outward appearance of everything. There are so many different points of views, religions,situations and pesonal standards. So that it makes sense that there can't be just one set standard of judging what is right or wrong.More often than not people have to place themselves in that specific situation to place judgement that the outcome was right or wrong.Absolutism is like having one person making all of the decisions reguarding every question of rightness and wrongness,only having one point of view on everything.That person is judging based on their personal standards and not being open to other beliefs on the subjects. The concept of judging issues based on the standard that something is either right or wrong, no arguement, is a little crazy to me. There are a few issues I would like to adress on right or wrong. There are many public issues that have been talked about in the news and media that have come to interest to a number of people. Many of these issues are very controversal and are being judged strictly by christian standards. For example, the rightness or wrongness of gay marriages. Much of the public disagreed with the thought of same sex marriages, but mainly because of the morals based on christianity and the bible. Even our president outlawed gay marriages because of his religious beliefs. Which I believe to be wrong for a couple of reasons. First, is that political leaders are not shouldn't make decisions based upon personal and religious beliefs. Secondly, he did not consider the fact that these gay couples wanting to get married probably love each other and aren't any different from th rest of us. There would be no harm in approving same sex marriages. He made the decison strictly based on christian standards and not considering the rights that he has taken away from gay couples. Many people have this similar way of thinking and don't look at all aspects of the situation and people's feelings before passing judgement. Relativist are more open and consider all aspects of the situation. The main idea of relativism is that all moralities are equally good and all belief systems are equally true. Not one person's standards or beliefs is privilaged over the others. People have their own sense what is right for them.Relativist believe that language, culture, the era and background shape a person's prception of right and wrong. So in that way every point of view on a subject is equally right. For example, in the subject of abortion many people would agree that it is wrong and is murder. On the other hand some think that it is a prevention to a possible future problem. Absolutist would look at it one way or the other not taking in both sides of the arguement. They would most likely say that it was wrong without any possiability of exception. Relativist would look at both sides and consider them right because everyone is raised different there fore they have their own sense of right and wrong. Relativist have a more realstic way of looking at things, because in some cases abortion could be wrong but there are circumstances that could be understandable that one is necesary. For example, what if the babey will be born with an incurable disease and suffer its whole life or the pregnant mother could be dying of aids and wouldnt be able to raise or take care of the child. Theres always twosides to every situation. No situation, or person should be judged or punished due to one specific standard.

Situations and Perceptions

Topic: Perception

Perception is how people take in and react to other people, places, objects and situations around them. I agree with Gorgias 's theories that people can't truley understand things without experiancing them first hand and also that conceptual ideas do not exist.Conceptual ideas don't exist because there are too many ways that people can perceive certain situations. There is not one certain way to think about and rationalize everything. An idea that Gorgias and Socates didn't mention that I believe to be true is that people sometimes tend to judge and react to people and situations acording to their mood, the way they were raised and their past experiances.

There are many situations where something tramatic happens to a person we know and our initial response is " I unserstand how you feel.".Which in most cases is completely untrue, unless the same exact thing happened to you. Even then there are some details that could still make your statement untrue. For example, if your friend's parents died and yours did too,well the relationship between each of you and your parents could have been different and also they way they died can make things harder on either you. This goes along with the idea that things cannot be truley understood until experianced.

Many other factors can alter a person's reactions and perceptions to people and everyday situations. A person's past and current behavior can have a very big influence on how a person reacts to situatuions. For example, two people are invited to go to a party where drinking will be present. One person may not have a problem with it because either they drink or just the fact that it doesn't bother them, so they decide to go. The other person has a family history of alcohlism and hates to be around drunk people and decides not to go. For the person thats drinks or doesnt have a problem with drinking the party seems like fun but to the person with a family history of alcohlism the party doesnt seem fun at all.Everyone can probably identify with both situations and that a person's personal history can have a huge effect on a person's perception of people and situations. How a person is raised is also a big factor. Maybe in a similar situation one person was raised going to church everyday and drinking was not acceptable, the other person may have grew up in an envrionment that encouraged drinking. Both of these people could choose to go to the party or not depending on what effect the way they were raised had on them, but in most cases people will consider how they were raised to help them make decisions. Also past experiances play n important part in how we perceive certain things and ideas. For example, if the last time a person went to a party and it ended up in disaster; that person probably wouldn't be as willing to go to another as a person that had a good time at their last party. This idea can go with anything. People tend to stay away from situations and thing that they have had bad experiances with in the past.

A person's mood is also a factor of perception. If a person that just ended a realtionship watches a romance movie they probably aren't going to enjoy it as much as someone who is curently in love. Most of the time when people are in a bad mood they perceive thing negatively compared to people that are in a good mood. People in a good mood are usually more open and positive towards ideas and situations. These are just some of my opinions and theories about people and certain situations when it comes to perceptions.

About Me

My full name is Lauren Nicole Smith. I graduated from Warner Robins high school last May and have been attending Macon State college since the end of August. My major is nursing, which everyone says is a tough course of study to go into. Both my junior and senior year in high school I interned at the Houston Medical Center. So I have a feel for what the nursing field is all about and also many other occupations in the hospital. I am a very outgoing and caring person, so a job in the medical field would suit me. I'm also not easily grosed out, which is good thing in a hospital setting.Some of my interests include: listening to music, going to concerts, traveling, watching movies, spending time with my friends and family, working and reading. Most of my spare time is used listening to music, it is a big part of who I am. I listen to a wide variety of music usually depending on my mood. I also love reading true crime stories and novels from Stephen King. Spending time with my family, friends and boyfriend is also important to me.