Here's a fact for all you people out there: like pizza, all men are in fact not created equal. If they were "created" equally, it would mean that each individual will share the opinion of others and have the exact same thought process as everyone else in the world and beyond. The universe would be in harmony and agreement with no such a thing as an "argument".
Well, I just made an argument in the paragraph above! Arguments are simply contradicting ideas that each individual has decided to believe in and prove to others to believe in it as well. Arguments can be viewed as complaints, compliments, ways to prove a fact false, or just to have the audience to stuff themselves in the arguer's shoes. For example, in the image above the comic artist/s depicts his opinion on computer manufactures like car companies. Text is not necessarily needed in order to prove a point. In the comic shown, there are two cars, two representatives for two rivaling businesses. The Windows car is shown as a retro broken-down vehicle with a disheveled repairman who looks as if he is on the verge of frustration. Oh the other hand, the neat, grinning, little Apple guy is proudly presenting a very high-tech, scratch-less, fingerprint-proof, shiny new car that seems extremely simple to use. The author inevitably expresses to the media that the Mac is a much better product to have than a Windows. Argumentation has been around for centuries, before Galileo, Charles Darwin, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s eras.
In this society, there are many issues where conflict and argument will arise from time to time, such as how the American economy is going, what songs should play on the radio and what should not, and everyone's classic, "does God exist"? I have heard many unusual arguments, from "the best ways to be a Pokemon master" to "Gandalf would totally win a showdown with Dumbledore". But of all the arguments that strike me, I'd have to say racism and racial profiling are what I strongly oppose, even stronger than my dislike towards Facebook.
RACISM IS BAD. STOP IT.
RACISM IS BAD. STOP IT.
Just a heads up on my response, I do not agree with racism or racial profiling, I am more arguing just for the sake of arguing.
ReplyDeleteThe way I look at it, it is not black and white. Profiling is not always bad, just as it is not always good. As human beings, we are “designed” to recognize patterns. We find patterns in everything in life, from the time it takes to cook food to ways of solving complex calculus equations. There is a system that recognizes patterns somewhere deep in our brain’s.
Some patterns I know that I follow are, checking that my car is locked when I am in a “shady” neighborhood/place, and not trusting compete strangers. I know that those two may just seem like common sense, but the reason they are is because of the patterns that we, as humans, recognize.
I know that when I drive through shady neighborhoods I lock my doors and don’t paly my music loud. Am I profiling the neighborhood and the people that live there as “bad people” or am I just being smart?
I imagine that police do the same the same thing, I have had experiences where it seems like the car I was in was getting pulled over just because there is a bunch of high-school or college looking people in it. Are they profiling us a bad people or are they just being statistically smart, because there is a higher chance that high-school or college aged people are doing something illegal? Where is the line drawn between profiling and being smart?