To somewhat continue and clarify my last blog, I have decided to add another on that topic.
Groups of people everyday vie for the publics attention. Each hopes to draw more people to their cause. How do they get the public's attention? Most often with shock value. Graphic or disturbing images or strange facts.
Freedom of speech. One of of our basic rights as American citizens as stated in the Bill of Rights. However, it is constantly argued what all this freedom protects. Obscenity, protected or not? Specifically here, graphic images in public places.
(This a paper I did for my ENG 131 class. It's takes a look at the Stanley Milgram expirement and why people are obidient and whether or not obdience is a good thing.)
Stanley Milgram, noted psychologist performed his experiment on obedience in the late 1960’s. The results of his experiment were somewhat shocking and rather controversial. Milgram’s findings raised many questions about exactly how far people are willing to go in the name of obedience. Erich Fromm, writer and psychoanalyst of the same period, writes on obedience. While his article “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem” does not directly address Milgram’s experiment, Fromm’s thoughts may help shed some light on the findings of Milgram. Though most people consider obedience a virtue, closer examination reveals that obedience must also be considered a vice. This idea is central to both Milgram and Fromm. Both say that disobedience is an intrinsic part of human nature but when considering the results of Milgram’s experiment the validity of this idea must be questioned.
Ah yes people, here it is, my blog about gay marriage. If the title doesn't say it all for you let me spell it out.
Gay marriage should be legal, bottom line. People have all these reason that it shouldn't be but these reasons are illogical.
- Gay marriage will lessen the value of straight marriages.
And those 48-hour celebrity marriages do so much for them. Ok, how does someone else’s life choice affect you life choice? I mean what next we can only have one religion because having multiple religions decreases their value?? Speaking of which, the argument that gay marriage is unacceptable because that’s your religious belief, also not valid. I wasn't aware we were living in a theocracy with one legal state religion everyone must follow. Maybe I missed something, but I don't think so.
If you haven't heard already, South Dakota recently passed a bill that makes most all abortions in the state illegal. Here is the aticle from CNN. (I make comments at the bottom)
CNN) -- South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds signed a bill Monday that bans nearly all abortions in the state, legislation in direct conflict with the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in 1973.
The new law defines life as originating "at the time of conception."
