“If the talent of ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use to the world; but instead of this, we find that it is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything that is solemn and serious, decent and praise worthy in human life.” – Joseph Addison People today simply don’t understand. Those that do simply do not care. Those that both care and understand are not understood or cared for, which is one of the problems Joseph Addison brings across. People laugh and mock the people who attempt to do good instead of laugh and mock the ones who do not. They desperately attempt to strip everything of value to the person of good; their morals, goals, and their beliefs.
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This generation will be the next batch of “great” leaders, or so they say. Honestly, however, the great ones dwindle more and more every day. We are a species society is determined to extinct. These great leaders are the ones that are mocked and bullied in school every day. Some are hunted and killed; seen as prey in the eyes of a hungry and growing community of hunters. Others are adopted by them and become the new definition of great. To me, that definition means plenty of things: one who is corrupt and/or corrupts others; one who takes others for granted to gain a higher title, glory, and fame; one who criticizes and destroys another’s beliefs; etc. These “great” people are becoming the majority of the population. And that population is supporting them. It’s a clear outcome to see at this point. If this generation was raised for the bad, not all, then what would the majority of the next be raised for? All the generations after that will be the same. This will continue until someone steps in to change …show more content…
I’ll agree up to a certain degree. The way a parent raises a child that later becomes that jerk or bully has a huge impact, but that impact does not determine his/her future. I’ll bring up the Allegory of the Cave. In this story, Socrates and Glaucon discuss the “effect of education and the lack of it.” The people who are chained for their entire lives see only the shadows on the wall that they are allowed to see. One of them breaks free and is allowed to see what makes the shadows and what reality composes them. Even if a child is only allowed to see with one eye for a part of his life, at one point he is gifted with sight in the other and can see what is true and ,what once was true, as a lie or only a small part of the bigger picture. Once he sees the bigger picture, he has two choices. One of those choices is to see the truth, but instead of truth, we’ll use good, and believe in it or he can continue to live the life that was taught to him. Many, now, continue to live in the ways of his/her old life. And those who say that they don’t understand are simply wrong. Every human being has the ability to understand, no matter how young, old, disturbed, crippled, etc. Understanding is not the problem. It’s caring. They don’t care because they have such a vast number of supporters of that support them and their actions. Why bother listening to us, right? “Lions do not lose sleep over the opinions
This generation will be the next batch of “great” leaders, or so they say. Honestly, however, the great ones dwindle more and more every day. We are a species society is determined to extinct. These great leaders are the ones that are mocked and bullied in school every day. Some are hunted and killed; seen as prey in the eyes of a hungry and growing community of hunters. Others are adopted by them and become the new definition of great. To me, that definition means plenty of things: one who is corrupt and/or corrupts others; one who takes others for granted to gain a higher title, glory, and fame; one who criticizes and destroys another’s beliefs; etc. These “great” people are becoming the majority of the population. And that population is supporting them. It’s a clear outcome to see at this point. If this generation was raised for the bad, not all, then what would the majority of the next be raised for? All the generations after that will be the same. This will continue until someone steps in to change …show more content…
I’ll agree up to a certain degree. The way a parent raises a child that later becomes that jerk or bully has a huge impact, but that impact does not determine his/her future. I’ll bring up the Allegory of the Cave. In this story, Socrates and Glaucon discuss the “effect of education and the lack of it.” The people who are chained for their entire lives see only the shadows on the wall that they are allowed to see. One of them breaks free and is allowed to see what makes the shadows and what reality composes them. Even if a child is only allowed to see with one eye for a part of his life, at one point he is gifted with sight in the other and can see what is true and ,what once was true, as a lie or only a small part of the bigger picture. Once he sees the bigger picture, he has two choices. One of those choices is to see the truth, but instead of truth, we’ll use good, and believe in it or he can continue to live the life that was taught to him. Many, now, continue to live in the ways of his/her old life. And those who say that they don’t understand are simply wrong. Every human being has the ability to understand, no matter how young, old, disturbed, crippled, etc. Understanding is not the problem. It’s caring. They don’t care because they have such a vast number of supporters of that support them and their actions. Why bother listening to us, right? “Lions do not lose sleep over the opinions