Nelson Palsmeyer Reflection

For this public education activity I attended the keynote session at the research conference titled “Swimming in a Sea of Systemic Injustices: What’s a Moral Person to Do?” I want to start off by saying, I feel like I gained so much from attending Dr. Jack Nelson Pallmeyer’s talk and I came out of it feeling both inspired and angry at the same time. The main point of this talk was about the major inequalities that the US is facing and what can be done about it. Dr. Nelson Pallmeyer started by giving us a brief look into his past and what lead him to pursuing a career in Justice and Peace Studies. After talking about his experiences, Dr. Nelson Pallmeyer went into what is wrong with America. Now this session did not necessarily connect directly
Nelson Pallmeyer. We need to be accountable for our personal choices because they can affect more than just ourselves. Vocation is another aspect that we need to accountable in namly finding jobs that can help to better the country and those in it. And finally civic and political engagement are the last two aspects of life we need to be accountable for in order to start making a change. Along with those four aspects of life, Dr. Nelson Pallmeyer also touched on three important values that we all need to live by in order to make and see a change. Humility, compassion and empathy are vital to making America a more equal country. The Golden Rule, treat others how you want to be treated, is a great step towards riding the US of the systemic injustices. Dr, Nelson Pallmeyer told us we need to fight for this justice our nation so desperately needs and we need to do it in a respectful way, but still get it done because it is up to my generation and the generations after me to make those changes because it is not healthy to live in an unequal
Nelson Pallmeyer’s talk and they are the three values he says we all need to live by; humility, compassion and empathy. These three life values can be applied to every aspect of life, not just human rights and social justice. Being humble keeps you grounded and allows you to not see yourself as the most important thing in the world. Being compassionate is vital in creating equality because it makes it so you can see yourself in someone else's shoes and in the case of human rights being a compassionate person can make a huge difference. Finally and I think the most important life lesson and value to live by that this session covered is empathy and the golden rule. If everyone lived by the saying, treat others like you want to be treated, a lot of America’s problems could start being fixed. If people who believe in racial superiority in America started treating those with a different skin color than them in a way that they want to be treated, we could have far less racism. If the top wealthy government officials realized that they are not the only ones who deserve affordable health care maybe we could take steps towards universal health care as a right not a privilege. If men started to treat women they way they expect women to treat them, we would have gender equality. Empathy can go a long way in creating a society that is equal. Overall, there are so many things that one can learn from listening