Ogletree:
From the Democratic primary in 2008:
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Our Loyalty
Well in class we saw two short videos. We saw the Bulgers brothers and David Kacynski. It was about loyalty. Was David Kacynski being loyal to family ties when he turn in his brother or to himself and society. Or Billy Bulgers who deny knowing where his brother was hiding. Each had their own loyalty dilemma.
In class we divided in small groups to discuss loyalty dilemmas in our own lives. I personally do not know what was discuss in other groups. I will tell you a little about my loyalty dilemma I had. I stop speaking to my 35 years old sister who had 3 children and was and still is unfit to be a mother. Her 3 kids were taken from her due to she left her oldest boy who was 6 years old to keep an eye on his 2 sister age 3 years old and a month old. When the kids w ere taken from her she came running to me to help her. I refuse to help because this was not the first time it happen and she was not going to learn anything. My two nieces were adopted by their foster parents but my nephew was given back to her last year. As of today she still live from house to house and she left her 17 year old living on his own. No money or a permanent place to live. He will be turning 18 on Dec . 14, 2011 and he told his mother he wanted to live with his older brother. He has been there 2 days already and they sign him up to get his GED.
My loyalty were to my nephew and nieces and I am happy my nieces are happy, safe, and just a joy to be with. My nephew is on the right track now and I am glad for him to realize that he was not going anywhere with his mother.
It is never easy to cut off loved ones but there is time that its needed for your own survival and peace of mind.
Chapter 9 - Loyalty and Morals
If one is patriotic and loyal to their own nation, do they have an inherent responsibility to reconcile with past injustices of their past compatriots?
Where do assimilated immigrants and foreigners stand? Is it just and economically sustainable to pardon victims with repatriation for every crime? Are there exclusions and exceptions for those who are recluse and nonparticipant? Must we civilly sue each other as a way to maintain an integral society?
Can past injustices such as cruel treatment during the occupying of Manchuria by the Japanese, be ever forgiven? Wouldn't repatriation serving as a bribe, simply insult the victim? Does it only aid to clearing the conscience of the murder? Is repatriation a way of clearing the past sins for embracing a nation's economic fruition and sorrows amongst the victims?
Does this only serve as a mechanism to enable further acts of crime? Isn't it to say that recalling thousands of Ford Pintos, due to the small chance of an explosion of faulty fuel tanks, not worthwhile, because the cost-benefit analysis deems it so? Ford says it's cost-beneficial to repatriate, only when justice is brought against them. Does this deem Ford immoral?
England still hold very much of accumulated wealth, in addition to the economic uplift from their colonizing endeavors of past centuries. Should there be a ceremony and celebration when the England transferred the sovereignty of Hong Kong back to the People's Republic of China, in 1996, despite the history of the opium wars?
How does one about the event of victim refusing repatriation? Is it ever just for China to seek retaliation? An eye for an eye?
It's arguable to say that we're not always a collective human whole, when it comes to loyalty? Do we only serve loyalty amongst our six-degree of separation first, before others? What if one has no extended, nor a nuclear family? Is it perhaps, we only sincerely owe loyalty to ourselves?
Where do assimilated immigrants and foreigners stand? Is it just and economically sustainable to pardon victims with repatriation for every crime? Are there exclusions and exceptions for those who are recluse and nonparticipant? Must we civilly sue each other as a way to maintain an integral society?
Can past injustices such as cruel treatment during the occupying of Manchuria by the Japanese, be ever forgiven? Wouldn't repatriation serving as a bribe, simply insult the victim? Does it only aid to clearing the conscience of the murder? Is repatriation a way of clearing the past sins for embracing a nation's economic fruition and sorrows amongst the victims?
Does this only serve as a mechanism to enable further acts of crime? Isn't it to say that recalling thousands of Ford Pintos, due to the small chance of an explosion of faulty fuel tanks, not worthwhile, because the cost-benefit analysis deems it so? Ford says it's cost-beneficial to repatriate, only when justice is brought against them. Does this deem Ford immoral?
England still hold very much of accumulated wealth, in addition to the economic uplift from their colonizing endeavors of past centuries. Should there be a ceremony and celebration when the England transferred the sovereignty of Hong Kong back to the People's Republic of China, in 1996, despite the history of the opium wars?
How does one about the event of victim refusing repatriation? Is it ever just for China to seek retaliation? An eye for an eye?
It's arguable to say that we're not always a collective human whole, when it comes to loyalty? Do we only serve loyalty amongst our six-degree of separation first, before others? What if one has no extended, nor a nuclear family? Is it perhaps, we only sincerely owe loyalty to ourselves?
Monday, December 5, 2011
Unabomber stuff
Analysis from Washington Post of the Manifesto: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.summary.htm
Loyalty
Some thoughts on loyalty in trying circumstances (we'll watch these today, 12/5)
Next time (12/7), we're going to talk about loyalty and solidarity obligations, like patriotism. On the menu: reparations. Yup, we're going there.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Purposeful Point-of-View? - Chapter 8
In Chapter 8, Aristotle presents his philosophical idea of Telos; justify the actions or desires based on inherent purpose.
Are ideas and beliefs completely absolute, or are they constantly being altering?
Referring back to Chapter 2; is the purpose of obtaining a college education, a scholarly desire, or is the means of a cost-benefit one?
Furthering this: Are we merely scholars who partake in research and expand the universe's knowledge for the sake of learning, or are we merely students here funded by corporate tuition reimbursements, to primarily further one's earning potential?
Are we to do more than to just simply eat, sleep, and work? Do we ignore the blessings of evolving cognition and language?
What if the purpose is to be find out our purpose here in life? What if life as we know it, is a journey, an embarkment of discovering one's purpose? What if we can't justify our purpose, in our lifetime?
What is one's purpose here, at Bunker Hill Community College?
Yet again,
Pre-Gamers
Are ideas and beliefs completely absolute, or are they constantly being altering?
Referring back to Chapter 2; is the purpose of obtaining a college education, a scholarly desire, or is the means of a cost-benefit one?
Furthering this: Are we merely scholars who partake in research and expand the universe's knowledge for the sake of learning, or are we merely students here funded by corporate tuition reimbursements, to primarily further one's earning potential?
Are we to do more than to just simply eat, sleep, and work? Do we ignore the blessings of evolving cognition and language?
What if the purpose is to be find out our purpose here in life? What if life as we know it, is a journey, an embarkment of discovering one's purpose? What if we can't justify our purpose, in our lifetime?
What is one's purpose here, at Bunker Hill Community College?
Yet again,
Pre-Gamers
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