3/29/12

It's hard for me to not support the war but support the troops. What was said in class got me really thinking and logically it is correct to say that if you support the troops than you support what they are doing overseas and there forth you are supporting the war. But I want to support the men and woman that are dieing to keep me safe, I feel like it is the least I can do. I know a lot of people that have family and friends that are overseas and they support them because someone they love is in the army/navy/marines/coastguard. To me it makes sense why they are sending post cards and food and love to the soldiers; because every day there is a chance that they could die. How would you feel if someone you love went overseas and passed away in the name of freedom and you didn't support them? You would feel awful! Well I would at least. War makes everything complicated and very little has benefited from the "conflict" that we are currently in.

3/28/12

When saying that you are fighting for freedom, you are no longer fighting for your nations state but you are now fighting for the people of the world. But when you have that mentality you have to throw away the thought of valuing one life more than another. I have heard in my life that we should look at everyone as family and treat them as such. But think about it, if you see two people that need help, one from your home country and one from another, who would you feel more inclined to help? That is a type of racism towards picking which person to pick based on where they are from. This mindset isn't moral, we are all humans and our lives are all worth the same so how can we choose if we are faced with the choice to save one person over another? This is kind of a lose-lose situation but these flaws are ones that we as humans face every day.

3/27/12

When we think about wars and what we are fighting for, as Americans we tend to say that we are fighting to freedom. But if you think about it if another country is considered "more free" than another than shouldn't you be fighting for them if you are fighting for freedom? For example if you were to fight for the Afghan villagers against the U.S that are trying to suppress them but you are for the U.S and they are claiming to be fighting for their freedom, no one would say that you are fighting for the U.S even though the U.S claims that they are fighting for freedom. If we could judge out of all the countries are more free than the others, and it turns out the be Canada, should we all start fighting for Canada because they are now represent what are fighting for more than what America is. But we could never tell our soldiers that because than they would know that we really have no idea what we are trying to fight for or who we are trying to save.

3/26/12

Patriotism is the topic of the week and what it really means to "fight for your country. In patriotism there are conditions; to feel special affection for one's country, special concerns for one's country, a sense of personal identity though your country, and a willingness to sacrifice for your country. The "American Dream" is what we like to think that all soldiers from the U.S fight for, that we stand for freedom and are trying to protect the better good for others. Tolstoy thought this was foolish and immoral because if your government is acting immoral and you believe in your government than you become immoral. If you think about it he does make a good point, and brings up the bigger question, what makes the U.S.A? What is that makes people think that this is the home of the brave and that we are the "keepers of peace"? 

3/22/12

So I had a bad dream last night about hiding from a huge monster in the bushes outside my house and I woke up when the monster found me. I woke up in a state of panic and couldn't go back to bed so I had a lot of time to think about what we have been talking about in class. I am honestly interested in what that dream would mean and if there really is something that could be said about a dream like that. I also wondered what my unconscious was trying to face. I know that hiding and the scary feeling of being caught in a game like hide and seek but I haven't played a game like that in years. I know in the last couple weeks I have been going though a lot of mental stress due to picking classes so my mind has been running on overdrive. Could that be what causes dreams, the mind over-thinking something and it picks something that you have had to face at one point or another?

3/21/12

How can we make sense of something that we don't control? When we dream it comes from our unconscious, and even great minds like Freud can't make full sense of what's going on in our head without guessing. Really the only way that we could get any real data is to collectivity gather data by the dreams of a large group of people and have them write down what happened in their dreams as soon as they woke up and hope and assume that there would be some commonalities that could be compared. But even then, buy the way I see it is that people come from different places and different backgrounds so even if there are common events that happen in the dreams what do we really compare because everyone is different so what could we tell that person about what their dreams meant? I know that there are people that can tell you what certain things mean but that person knows nothing about me or where I am from so how can they tell me what my unconscious is trying to tell me?   

3/20/12

When talking about what is considered scientific, we talk about what is needed to prove that what you are claiming is true. And to prove something we need something called "proof". In every science class whenever I was trying to prove that an answer was right I would need proof that what I am thinking is true. But the real problem comes in when trying to prove something when talking about human nature. On the subject of social science, can we really prove human thoughts and habits. There are different truths in the human world and the science world but both types of scientists try to find truths in different aspects of the world. Mathematical truths are much more easier truths than humans because numbers are black and white, there is one scenario so there is one answer. With humans there are so many difference between all of us that it is almost impossible to find the proof to prove that we are what we are.