Commonly we all have hear that our generation has lost of its values. If you think about it is true. Respect has almost come to extinction and most people do not act according to their age. Depending to the high school you attended you would have noticed some of the most rudest people you have ever met. There are people that will not respect their elderly, parents, women or their classmates. In addition, those people were not going in the right path. What could be the reasons that this is happening? Media, parents or school?
My idea is that this is happening because we, as individuals, are letting it happen. As Sarte said we are free to do wha ever we want that we don't do it is another thing. An example is when a person is abusing mentally or physically of another person. If we see it happening why don't we put a stop to it. Most of us we rather continue with our life. All it takes is to in a well rhetorical and moral manner tell the person that what he is doing is bad. For example, when that student that who always backed talk to the teacher. If one could just tell the person that what he is doing is immoral in front of the whole class he will change his mind. Because if you tell him what he is actually doing of being disrespect full and he does not have any manners, he will feel ashamed. He will ignore you but it will have affect later on. I know it because tried it and have been successful. If you don't believe me; try it.
I agree with you to an extent. While it is said that our generation has lost its values, I think this is partially true. I think it is a generalization of some of the common behaviors that some of us exhibit. It does not necessarily apply to every member of our generation. There are some out there that exhibit moral characteristics on social media and the like. On tumblr, facebook, twitter, reddit and so on there are individuals of our generation that have strong feelings about certain issues and make sure you know this. They will come to the defense of their friends or complete strangers to help promote positive open-mindedness.
ReplyDelete"If we see it happening why don't we put a stop to it. Most of us we rather continue with our life." This is similar to what Dr. J mentioned in her example of Brazil.More often than not, when something doesn't directly affect us, we tend to ignore it. We may empathize with a victim or whatever but we do not do anything about it. We just go about our ways and we acknowledge it and we do not act upon it. As our study of Sartre shows, by doing something, we are negating all the possible other things we could be doing.
Even though we could say something to the disrespectful people, most likely we won't. The reason for that could be because we are scared of or we are simply to comfortable dealing with out lives rather than making people understand when something is right and when something is wrong.
DeleteTo start I think the resin our society has abruptly declined is not just one factor but a combination of all three.We can't just blame one thing for the problem. For example parents use to punch their kids, they don't as much the in the end the kid doesn't care and will become a person that hurts our society. If a kid doesn't respect their parents do you think they are going to respect their teachers, eventually the teacher is not even going to care anymore. It obvious that media has played a hand in destroying our society. For example society has became extremely obese because they find media more entertaining then being outside. Sarte says its freedom of the mid to do as one pleases. We can change how people punch their kids and that can go for every scenario. We can only encourage because a person is going to do what they want to do. I think if we were to change society in the aspect of kids disobeying. We would need to go back to older times, were parents were not afraid of spanking their children. Look at history and ask the people from the past it worked, get off social media and go outside, and stop treating our teachers like robots and give them some freedom. The only way to make a difference is try to make their message worthy and hope people will follow. We can't force anyone but we heavy influence people can make right decisions and change.
ReplyDeleteI think our generation doesn't care about things, we are just so nonchalant about rules, manners, and education. We only exercise our freedom to go against everything that is right, we don't care about morals. Whether we let or try to prevent disrespect or bad behavior from happening it will still happen. And I don't know what would be a good solution to this problem....maybe we can create some incentives that will motivate them to do what is right.
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