Do We Self Impose Right and Wrong?

many ways to approach this as you can do the same and insult them or

The stronger an attitude is, the more likely it is to translate to one’s actions. Likewise, the more thorough the assertiveness is to the confined conduct, the more it will be pertinent for said behavior. If rational thought leads to the decision that a behavior should be done based upon a said assertiveness, and it is decided that the behavior can be done, most likely those behaviors will ascend (The THINK SPOT, 2013).

“My dog and you have the same name.” Does this sound hurtful? Did I offend you? Yes, you did offend the person and it is called microaggression. Microaggressions are hurtful statements that can inflict insult. Microaggression is an everyday action that people do without knowing it. However, sometimes comments people say do not seem like microaggression and they do not sound offensive, but they may be insulting to the person. How does an individual deal with microaggression? Microaggression is difficult to deal with depending on how you react to the statement/insult. An individual can respond to microaggression in different forms. One can respond by counting backwards from ten or ignore the comment/ insult.

While the 1970’s and 80’s marked a decline in movies featuring black actors and a lack of black directors, the mid 1980’s through the 1990’s invited a new generation of filmmakers and rappers, engaging with the “New Jack” image, transforming the Ghettos of yesteryears into the hood of today. A major director that emerged during this time was Spike Lee. According to Paula Massood’s book titled, Black City Cinema, African American Urban Experiences in Film, “…Lee not only transformed African American city spaces and black filmmaking practices, he also changed American filmmaking as a whole.” Lee is perhaps one of the most influential film makers of the time, likely of all time. He thrusted black Brooklyn into light, shifting away from the popularity of Harlem. By putting complex characters into an urban space that is not only defined by poverty, drugs, and crime, it suggests the community is more than the black city it once was, it is instead a complex cityscape. Despite them being addressed to an African American audience, Lee’s film attract a mixed audience. Spike lee’s Do the Right Thing painted a different image of the African American community, “The construction of the African American city as community differs from more mainstream examples of the represents black city spaces from the rime period, such as Colors…, which presented its African American and Mexican American communities through the eyes of white LAPD officers.”

There are many psychological arguments for whether it is nature or nurture that controls an individual. If one is controlled by nature it means that the traits with which they inherit and have no control over are the ones controlling them. If one is controlled by nurture it means that the way in which they were brought up has control over them. Perry Smith was the son of a white man and a drunken Cherokee woman, “it was from her that he had inherited his coloring - the iodine skin, the dark, moist eyes, the black hair, which he kept brilliantined and was plentiful enough to provide him with sideburns and a slippery spray of bangs. His mother's donation was apparent; that of his father, a freckled, ginger-haired Irishman, was less so.” (page 9) He was raised in a children’s shelter that was ran by nuns and priests. While Perry was living with his father he wasn’t allowed to go to school. When Perry was a young child his mother took him and his siblings away from their father, and in the next years he was taken away from his father, and his mother became a different person. Perry’s mother had let liquor get the best of her, and she was never again like she was before. Perry Smith’s life is a prime example on how nurture controls more of an individual than nature.

Although it sounds appealing to make one's own decision freely, it is actually an impractable goal as the society has exerted significant influence and restrictions on individuals and has shaped one's value of what they should do and what they should not do. In today's society, people are more free to make our own choices than we were before, but it is true that we canno indulge our interests at the cost of transgressing the basic rules of the society.

People through time have been offended by many words throughout history. Words have been known to carry power and affect people negatively throughout history. For example, the famous N word has been used time and time as a negative connotations towards blacks. Well if words hurt this much one could say that micro aggressions, which can sometime be accidental could hurt just as much. The worst thing about being micro aggressed is the simple fact sometime you wouldn’t know if it’s actually micro

Do The Right Thing, directed by Spike Lee is a film that acts as a call to action for the audience to differentiate what doing the right thing actually means. New York City in 1989 was filled with issues of race and class. Crime rates were high and one of the highest recorded in history only second to the preceding year of 1990. Cases like the central park five where african american youths and other minorities were falsely accused of crimes, caused for unjust views of the justice system designed to protect these people as opposed to persecuting the innocent in the most blatant and obvious ways. Along with false accusations within the system, New York City was also filled with police brutality stories. “The organization has collected information

Andre’s analogy I think does work. This is because of whom they are using as an example. Since Andre used Danny’s mom as the ‘victim’ of a comment then it’s going to be taken more seriously. So what I mean is, that if Danny told his mom the n word, his mom would take it better from him rather than Andre saying the same word to Danny’s mom. So basically, if you know the person and you know their background then they would take it better from you rather than a stranger who doesn’t know you at all.

Would that not come naturally to us? But what is too far when it comes to just and unjust? If we see someone being hurt on the street, do we give ourselves the flexibility to go attack the attacker and save the victim? Where is the line drawn?

A mirror can not lie. It reflects an exact image of whoever looks into it. It shows a person what works and what is in desperate need for change, which means that a decision must be made every time one comes upon their reflection— accept what is seen or take the steps to make the change. Spike Lee gave the world a mirror when he created the film “Do the Right Thing.” He showed the world exactly much change is needed. The body of society is wrinkled with centuries of injustice, scarred with generations of suffering, and burdened with lifetimes of painful memories. Society is in need of healing. Lee shows us how to go about this healing by using a cycle of agitation and resolution in each pair of scenes. In order to begin to solve America’s race problem the conversation must have a balance of agitation and resolution.

A mirror can not lie. It reflects an exact image of whoever looks into it. It shows a person what works and what is in desperate need for change, which means that a decision must be made every time one comes upon their reflection— accept what is seen or take the steps to make the change. Spike Lee gave the world a mirror when he created the film “Do the Right Thing.” He showed the world exactly much change is needed. The body of society is wrinkled with centuries of injustice, scarred with generations of suffering, and burdened with lifetimes of painful memories. Society is in need of healing. Lee shows us how to go about this healing by using a cycle of agitation and resolution in each pair of scenes. In order to begin to solve America’s race problem the conversation must have a balance of agitation and resolution.

In this case we are introduced to Ben Freeman, an employee at the Provincial Power Corporation (PPC) for the past three years. Ben has found himself in the ethical dilemma of whether or not to steal the five hundred dollar holiday bonus fund from his work. Ben desperately needs this money in order to pay off his gambling debt and protect his physical wellbeing from the gangsters he borrowed from. His plan is to steal the holiday bonus fund and frame one of his coworkers Sue Macdonald in order to divert suspicion away from him. Ben knows that if he is caught stealing the money, he will surely lose his job.

In his influential book, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, J.L Mackie begins with the bold claim that “[t]here are no objective values.” Mackie holds that moral judgements are beliefs and that moral statements are propositions, meaning that they are capable of being true or false. However, for Mackie, all such propositions are false, and thus one is in error about what they are actually claiming. In this paper I will summarize two of Mackie’s arguments for why we should accept error theory: the argument from relativity and the argument from queerness. I will then explain two possible positions error theory leaves us with respect to morality —abolitionism and fictionalism —followed by some objections to both. While these positions have certain benefits, their strict forms, I will argue, are ultimately unsatisfying with the addendum that fictionalism seems the more tenable.

Anytime anyone invalidates another person's experiences, perception, or feelings; regardless of their intention, it is a form of gaslighting. In many cases, people don't even view it as a negative or toxic activity. On the contrary, they think they are consoling the other person by saying things like, "don’t worry," or "it's not a big deal." They will say things like, "don't take it too personally," which is good advice at times; however, it is not the best way to relate that