Thursday, September 22, 2011
Post Game - The Color Yellow
In general, the class agreed on the idea of preserving civil liberties. However, after listening to the discussion from the pre-gamers, they introduced the hypothetical situation of the discrimination of the color yellow could lead to gang violence, hate crimes, and segregation. Upon our discussions, the post game group arrived at the concept of the majority not always being morally correct. Just because the majority has the highest number of supports does not always mean they are doing the right thing. In this situation, banning the color yellow infringes upon the civil liberties of the individual. The suggestion to ban the color yellow is felt by the post gamers to only pacify the needs and feelings of the majority and is not concerned with the civil liberties of the individual.
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I'm a half-timer and our group unanimously 'voted' against the ban. We came to the conclusion that majority rules UNLESS the [possible] consequences are harmful or dangerous. Like the post-game group said, banning any color could cause riots, fringe extremists, etc. Also, if (hypothetically) we could decide to ban the color yellow, what's to stop society from banning a group of people? Reinstating segregation or another holocaust? For one, it's a slippery slope (what's next?) and two, it is a basic human right and shouldn't even be up for a vote (maybe not the color yellow...but segregation, slavery, etc. for sure). If it had been up for a vote, we may still have slavery to this day. It's a basic human right! Solely opinion-based 'theories' should not be taken so seriously, even if the opinion is held by a majority.
ReplyDelete- Thea Zahner on behalf of the Half-Time Group
if the majority rules, how would anyone stop the majority if they are wrong?
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