Thiroux’s Truth
Thiroux’s Truth
Do you agree with the author’s list of characteristics of good, bad, right, wrong? (Thiroux & Krasemann, 2011) pg. 28. The author was correct in stating that we tend to label inanimate things with words that would be construed as morally or aesthetically improper. From the moment we are born, the human brain is transitioning through a process called learning. In most situations, internal or external, its development is greatly affected by imitation and/or repetition of certain things or sounds. Let us take for example last’s week tragedy about the elementary school shooting. And for a moment let us also supposed that the following reports as definitely, and unchanged:
1. The shooter
Were the guns used by him good or bad? Did he always use them to do right or wrong? o Can we say that the vehicle that took him from her house to the elementary school was a bad one, without such means of transportation; he would not have done it.
2. The mother
While teaching the use of guns to her sons, did she distinguish between good or bad, right or wrong? What type of targets did she use? Did her sons actually get the wrong message?
3. The victims
Were they at the wrong place and time? Or in the mind of the shooter, they also have been contaminated with her way of teaching, and in a way, needed to be corrected?
Did the security system in that school be considered a bad one, by allowing an armed person to penetrate its perimeter? The fact is that ethically or morally concepts need more than just the first chapter of any books to be analyzed and perhaps understood. I would like to leave with another thought about how we label things; are the Sequoias or other giant trees really beautiful, or even magnificent? Last time I checked, a few number of plants can survive their proximity due to that they don’t share sun light, water, or even
Do you agree with the author’s list of characteristics of good, bad, right, wrong? (Thiroux & Krasemann, 2011) pg. 28. The author was correct in stating that we tend to label inanimate things with words that would be construed as morally or aesthetically improper. From the moment we are born, the human brain is transitioning through a process called learning. In most situations, internal or external, its development is greatly affected by imitation and/or repetition of certain things or sounds. Let us take for example last’s week tragedy about the elementary school shooting. And for a moment let us also supposed that the following reports as definitely, and unchanged:
1. The shooter
Were the guns used by him good or bad? Did he always use them to do right or wrong? o Can we say that the vehicle that took him from her house to the elementary school was a bad one, without such means of transportation; he would not have done it.
2. The mother
While teaching the use of guns to her sons, did she distinguish between good or bad, right or wrong? What type of targets did she use? Did her sons actually get the wrong message?
3. The victims
Were they at the wrong place and time? Or in the mind of the shooter, they also have been contaminated with her way of teaching, and in a way, needed to be corrected?
Did the security system in that school be considered a bad one, by allowing an armed person to penetrate its perimeter? The fact is that ethically or morally concepts need more than just the first chapter of any books to be analyzed and perhaps understood. I would like to leave with another thought about how we label things; are the Sequoias or other giant trees really beautiful, or even magnificent? Last time I checked, a few number of plants can survive their proximity due to that they don’t share sun light, water, or even