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We Must Be Viewed By Other People Essay

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How do you want to be viewed by other people? How do you want to be remembered when you die? When we ask ourselves that it’s our moral instinct that gets us in trouble sometimes. I feel like the generations now, spends so much time worrying about how others feel about them rather than just doing what they feel they should. It all comes down to reputation, moral intuitions, and sometimes it causes people to do what is referred to as “the bandwagon effect”. We’re becoming followers instead of leader and it is all because were afraid of what the world will think. I know I want to be remembered as someone who spoke my mind, was determined, and didn’t care what people thought of me. I know god made me into the person I am and I’m not changing what he created. So, ask yourself how do you want to be remembered? Firstly, I felt like the most important point made in the text was how we take people’s opinion way to serious. We shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but really look deep into them. Our moral goodness gives us the sense of pride and tells people that we are worthy of being in their life. Although, sometimes we switch to become someone we aren’t and that’s one of the biggest things we do when it comes to our morals. Like stated in the article, “Even when people agree that an outcome is desirable, they may disagree on whether it should be treated as a matter of preference and prudence or as a matter of sin and virtue”. I feel like we only want to be who other people

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