Philosophy. Joy.
In one paragraph (or more) define what a friend is and how you should act towards a friend? Instead of that, you can write a paragraph (or more) that defines what an enemy is and how you should act towards an enemy. Of course you can also write about both if you like. These are topics that you will read about in the assignment below.
An enemy can be considered one that you hold a long-withstanding quarrel with. An enemy can also be considered someone who poses an immediate threat to progress in whatever task is currently at hand. It really rather depends on the situation you are in. As McKenzie Wark puts it in Gamer Theory, "The enemy has to be identified, localized, and highlighted in order to become a target." In any case, there are two ways to "tackle" an enemy, so to speak. The most popular option, especially with the youth, is to kill, kill, kill. It won't be a problem if it's blasted out of existance, right? However, as Socrates put it, violence is not justice. The more... ah... perferable alternative, the one more mature people take, are to try to negotiate, to make peace. Instead of eliminating the source of the problems and possibly spawning new ones, eliminate the problem itself, and the source will stop creating them. Of course, there are times when negotiation is ineffective, when the enemy will not listen. It is only then that one should take a violent course of action. As William Sherman once said, "War is Hell."
END OF LINE. Now, as always, here's the latest going ons with Clan Darkterror Productions: First and foremost, WE FINALLY GOT THE DEMO UP. REVEL IN IT'S GLORY. Once you are done enjoying that, be a pal and Help us finish the whole game, so that you may enjoy it too!(Better do it fast, though, because the main characters are being taken up rather quick! If you wait too long, you might end up as one of the additional characters!) And while your at it, see what we're up to At the new Eternity's End devlog!
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Justin,
I am so sorry that we have gotten off debating. I think that I never responded to your last comment. Oh well, we can start a new thread now.
Ok, to education. I think that it is absolutely true that young children are some of the wisest people that the world will ever see. I honestly do. I think that part of this is because their minds are very clear on what they think is right or wrong. I think that 80% of the problems in the world today would have never happened if we brought in a load of fourth graders to run the government.
Unfortunately, there is that other 20%. Children (and I know this from personal experience, I have a little brother) are very frivolous, sometimes selfish, and often just very unaware that the choices that they make have an impact on people other than themselves. They don’t realize that they can hurt someone by something that they say, it doesn’t even occur to them. Of course, there are exceptions to every rule.
I also have to agree with what you said about adults. Most of them are ALSO very selfish. They get very caught up with things like, as you said, getting from point a to point b. Of course, children don’t have this problem. As a whole, children look more at the world in a day, that most adults do in most of their adult life. Children will look out the window of a car and point at a kite in a tree, or flowers in someone’s garden, or a man sitting at a bus stop. Just little things that most would never notice, and that IS one of the things that makes children so wonderful.
However, the world cannot be run on observations alone. As you said, children don’t worry about profit or statistics; some wouldn’t know what those words mean. Decisions that are made in this country that involve things like passing a bill for stem cell research, or abortion, or even fishing rights in Michigan. A child would never have enough experience, enough education, to make a decision about something like that.
As a rule, I’m not fond of the people who run the world today. If they did their jobs a little bit better, I think that there would be far fewer problems. Darfur, for example. The UN should be doing something about it, it’s been classified as genocide for nearly two and a half years, and yet they still send no troops in to save people. Why don’t they do anything?
But despite this, I don’t think that we could just replace all governments with children. We need people who have enough knowledge to make good decisions and be able to look into the future, so that they can predict any problems that may arise. Children live too much in the present.
And last, yes, I do think that Plato was a little egotistical. Socrates too. He was, after all, the one that said there was no one to rule but philosophers. After reading some of his ideas on justice, though, I might be persuaded to that opinion. I especially like the conclusion that he draws at the end of part two. That a good man will hurt no one, therefore a just man will hurt no one, and only his opposite, an unjust man, will cause harm. Pretty good if you ask me.
Alrightly, enough rambling.
Kit
PS. I had to delete the last comment due to a posting error. I always hate it when people delete things form my blog so I thought that I would explain.
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