*Please respond to these questions in the comment section of this post.*
Many of our responses during Bridge incorporate our ever-changing ideas of right/wrong. Consider how we come to define "right" and "wrong." How do we construct definitions of these words?
We all have specific reactions to the choices and actions of others (and ourselves) and aren't our reactions based on perceptions of good and bad? If we're only ever exposed to "bad examples," would we not think those examples were "right"?
How might you apply your responses to the above questions to this important statement made by Martin in a previous post: "Racism is still a critical aspect of [our] culture. Everywhere you go you meet new people and see people everyday. This is why people who are still in fact racist can really bring down someone's nature."
How might someone's ideas of right and wrong affect his or her response to Martin's statement?
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the most you can do is try because nothing will always work out perfect, especially with todays standards and sometimes poor judgement. everyone should know the difference between right or wrong by looking into there heart and soul, but as sad as it is some people just cannot do that.
It all depends on that person's background. If they have been exposed to "bad examples" of someone who is in fact racist themselves they may not know what to say. Some racist people do not know that they are in fact racist, they may think that it's ok for them to feel the way that they do because all of their lives they were brought up by racist people. Racist people are not just white or black they are every color and every ethnicity. Sometimes people who were brought up a certain way don't understand right from wrong and that is why when I am approached by someone who is or seems racist I just say they don't know that they aren't right, they think that it's ok to feel the way they do and they have that right, i'll just pray that God gives them the mind to get over their issues!
We come to define right and wrong based off of personal beliefs and convictions. For most people, no strict moral code will do for them, just a set of personal convictions of right and wrong is enough to seperate good and bad from most people.
Only you as a person could define right from wrong because its based on your moralls. If you are exposed to bad examples at a young age then you wouldnt know good from bad. you would have to get older and make desisions on your own based on what you learned. Its sad that people are still racist in this time of day. People should accept the people around them, its not like you have to live with them you only see them in public.
That everyone make a judgement when they first see you. But once someone get to know you it's different to what they judge you by.Everyone has their belief and a good & bad judgement about others who are not like them. People may seem racist but sometime that just not always the case. It just the way we respond to certain things like label someone before getting to know them.
After reading The question, and reading martin and Britt's responses. I agree with Britt. If you are brought up to not like someone because of there skin color, religion, or back ground then there is a big risk that you will stick with that. If you are raised to be generous,kind, and not to judge everyone whether there green, black, yellow, white, then you will probably stick with that for the rest of your life.
Like myself, I was raised to respect others, and you will be respected back. And those who choose not to respect you arent even worth getting upset over. And to this day I stick to that.
I think that the meanings of right and wrong were constructed through out or lives by the people who surronded us and taught every thing else, parents and family and friends and so forth. And yes, in some part i beleive that if we learned right as wrong and wrong as right, then thats how we would go about things. Althoug i think there might be some inherent sense of right that is just a natural human concept. it just goes along with basic insinct.
I suppose for some people racism has been handed down. if thats the way they were taught then that might be the way they feel, but anyone that applys to needs to realize that they can break tradition. everyopne has a free mind. There is no excuse for being close-minded, because honestley people are just people.
We define right as being the correct anwser or the proper statement.Right is mostly being something that is what the person is looking for or the correct solution to the problem. Wrong is something we look at as being bad or something that is not right. We see wrong as not being the correct anwser and being used as sometjimg we look down at.
The only way you know from right and wrong is how you were brought up and the actions that faced you at a very young age. For an example if one of your siblings tell you to steal a piece of candy from the grocery store you may learn that stealing is okay and you may do it more later on in life. As long as you learn from right and wrong at an early age you will have the right definition.
I think it's all about morals. When you grow older you form your believes of what you think is right and wrong. I think that this will always be changing as you grow up since you learn alot more about yourself and the world around you. When it comes down to racism it's hard to change your believes since it is such a strong believe. But like i said, when you start to grow older and see new things, and start to see what's really going on around you that maybe your ideas and morals will change. That you will open your eyes more. That you may start to realize we all are human beings and that will never change.
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