Should Celebrities Be Held to a Higher Moral Standard Since They Are Often Viewed as Role Models by Children and Teens? Almost everyone in the entire world has seen a movie or TV show and seen a character and wanted to be like them. Some examples are children tend to see super heroes as role models and tend to say things like “I want to be like Spiderman when I grow up.” Or, “Batman is my hero and I want to be like him.” Things like that, and teens see movies where they want to imagine that they are a certain character in romance movies or in action movies where the main character is being “super cool.” This then raises the question, should the celebrities who perform on stage or star in movies or write books be held to a higher moral standard
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Not only that but people will also say “Lance doped because he knew his competition would and he wanted a fair shot.” Or “Miley can express herself how she would like.” People think that players can use steroids if they want, or Ray might have had anger issues, or Miley is just in a troubling time in her life. All of that may be true, but the fact still remains that they are still looked at as idols and role models by a fair number of people. Glhsreflection. org writes “Some may argue that because of their very public roles, celebrities have a duty to conduct themselves in a way that makes them a beacon of moral perfection for the masses to follow, but this is preposterous and illogical.” This text is extremely off the mark because nobody asks them to be prefect, because let’s face it, no matter how hard we try, no human being is perfect. All anyone is asking of them is to not act like they rule the world and to set good examples for the people who look up to them, especially if they are a role model for teens as teens are heavily influenced by what they see, hear, and what is socially accepted as “the norm.” Yes, people are responsible for their own actions but at the same time, the teenage brain is highly susceptible to making poor choices already as they are just about to enter the “real world” and have new responsibilities such as cars, debit cards, jobs, and they are easily influenced. So if Miley Cyrus makes the social norm, say twerking, then many teens are going to start twerking because that is what is socially accepted and what is the “cool thing” to do. Or with Lance, if teens, or college students don’t dope or use drugs which are illegal for their sport they’ll lose, because Lance won 7 years in a row on the hardest race to win in cycling, and it was because he doped. Ray made it okay for teens to hit girls as long as nobody finds out about it.
Not only that but people will also say “Lance doped because he knew his competition would and he wanted a fair shot.” Or “Miley can express herself how she would like.” People think that players can use steroids if they want, or Ray might have had anger issues, or Miley is just in a troubling time in her life. All of that may be true, but the fact still remains that they are still looked at as idols and role models by a fair number of people. Glhsreflection. org writes “Some may argue that because of their very public roles, celebrities have a duty to conduct themselves in a way that makes them a beacon of moral perfection for the masses to follow, but this is preposterous and illogical.” This text is extremely off the mark because nobody asks them to be prefect, because let’s face it, no matter how hard we try, no human being is perfect. All anyone is asking of them is to not act like they rule the world and to set good examples for the people who look up to them, especially if they are a role model for teens as teens are heavily influenced by what they see, hear, and what is socially accepted as “the norm.” Yes, people are responsible for their own actions but at the same time, the teenage brain is highly susceptible to making poor choices already as they are just about to enter the “real world” and have new responsibilities such as cars, debit cards, jobs, and they are easily influenced. So if Miley Cyrus makes the social norm, say twerking, then many teens are going to start twerking because that is what is socially accepted and what is the “cool thing” to do. Or with Lance, if teens, or college students don’t dope or use drugs which are illegal for their sport they’ll lose, because Lance won 7 years in a row on the hardest race to win in cycling, and it was because he doped. Ray made it okay for teens to hit girls as long as nobody finds out about it.