Thursday, December 4, 2014
Cyber lover
This week in class we watched a video called, "Catfish" which a guy named Nev Shulman basically summarized his experienced through chatting with a woman named Megan online that he barely knew . Even though he did not fully know Megan he was in a relationship with her for months and began to fall in love with her. How can that be possible? How can we can decide after months of conversing with a stranger online that we know very little about to fall in love with them? So Nev decides to travel and go meet her and is surprised that he gets catfished at the end of his journey. Catfish is when someone who pretends to be someone they're not using Facebook or other social media to create false identities, particularly to pursue deceptive online romances. Do you think catfishing someone is morally right? What are some examples that catfishing is morally wrong? Which philosopher would agree/disagree of your choice would choose from this scenario?
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Catfishing is not morally right. Actually, catfishing is extremely wrong! Knowingly deceiving someone for personal gain goes against all ideas concerning right behavior. I think it is possible to fall in love with someone over the internet. If you watch the Catfish TV show, the people seem to have real genuine feelings for their online lover. Most of the time, these people don't have anyone else to confide in. What starts as simply a person to talk to, turns into the only person they're talking to. But sometimes, the people turn out to be real and a romance is ignited. What about online dating? Match.com? eHarmony? Millions of people have fallen in love online that way and that seems to be accepted nowadays.
ReplyDeleteI think that catfishing goes against the utilitarian school of thought, in that it does not benefit the most people to be deceptive over the internet. In the end, it doesn't really benefit anyone.
Obviously cat fishing is not morally "right", I think the more difficult question would be when is this ever morally right? I cannot think of any situation that it would be okay to fake your identity to fall in love with someone. Just as said pretending to be something your not is wrong, a prominent example would be Facebook, instagram or any other social media. I think instagram would be the most of the "evils". Why? Because what instagram is notoriously known for is "editing" pictures to perfection. I am sure many would disagree but when a person post a picture completely edited how is this not cat fishing this basically making your appearance fake. Plato would not agree because Plato's talks about what it to do to attain moral correctness.
ReplyDeleteWhen you talk to someone online you're automatically setting yourself up for catfishing. Catfishing is morally wrong because you're lying to one or more individuals as well as yourself. By deceiving this person you're allowing them to see as someone that you're not
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