4.04.2010Y
7:56 PM
Boarding internet’s finally up. Seriously, what are the school technicians doing man! Spending their time doing whut? Firstly, to visitor alpha (I may have an idea who you are anyway). Well, in response to your first comment on your idea of my point that “changes are constant, people don’t evolve that quickly, they aren’t Pokémon” is not what I meant. What I was trying to bring across with the Pokémon example is that the people’s mindset changes quickly, not we are not like Pokémon.
Next, moral guidelines are set by humans. As you mentioned, morale guidelines guide the way we do things. Everyone has their own set of moral guidelines and we do according to what we believe. For example, one may argue that giving up sits to an elderly in the train is a moral act to do, however, another person might disagree with you stating that his moral guidelines is by the first come first serve basis and the early bird gets the kill. Hobbes suggested in his state of nature that all man is selfish and brutal and in Locke’s idea of “no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions; and that transgressions of this may be punished” we can see that unless man tries to follow something which they uniformly agrees on, man can just be as salvage as beasts. So, we cannot conclude that there is a right or wrong in society as all men are selfish and they will only do what they want unless they decide to follow a certain guideline.
Also, I would like to clarify if what do you refer to by the history of science. Do you refer to the time before the renaissance and the enlightenment? Okay, maybe not so much of the renaissance since the renaissance is more focused towards the part on literature and humanism advancement.
I didn’t quite get your meaning in the part about my contradiction in myself. Basically, one idea is that when you have done wrong means you have done wrong. When you steal a car, you steal. When you steal an apple, you still steal. It is not possible to look at that guy who just murdered someone by stabbing him 12 times in the heart and say, “That guy is so inhumane! I only stab my guy 11 times and he stabbed his 12!” It is logically flawed to say that someone who has done wrong look at another person and sigh, saying he did worse.
Lastly, that part on “there is nothing you can do about it” means we can’t do anything to our moving and advancing society. Using the stick analogy- one stick is weak but many sticks are strong. Same here, one person’s change is weak but the society’s change is powerful. If there is only one black sheep among all of us that goes woo ahh haa during assembly then it’s possible we would just ignore him, listing him as a deviant. However, many people do that kind of thing and it becomes a custom whereby when teachers enter the hall, the students would cheer for them. That is perfectly normal and has no harm to it. This is a change in the society of students where 5 years back the students kept quiet when teachers’ walk in. These changes cannot turn back as it is deeply programmed into our mind that it is the “right” thing to do. One or two person might change but they will not make much of a difference in the end towards everything. So, society’s moving on, what can you do to change it back?
Done. Now moving on. Life recently is so busy. All the work is like piling up nonstop… The four days “holiday” felt like 4 hours of intense mugging. But at least my grades are rather stable apart from chemistry and maths. Screwed my previous maths quiz damn badly…
Midyear exams are coming and I believe it is about time to start studying for it… The studying for bio starts tonight. Or maybe later tonight… After all, curiosity killed the cat and procrastination killed me.
DANG~~! xD I want Dango!
