Jaiden Fallo
2/4/16
World Lit Belief Statements
(Existentialism)
I believe in the philosophy that people are born as blank slates (tabula rasa). Blank slate, I believe, means the mind does not have innate concepts. Reflexes, urges, or any other involuntary primitive emotions (fear, hunger, pain, etc...), muscle movements are not concepts. That a baby can crawl, eat, breathe, grasp, cry and even walk before ever saying the first word, or concept, it learns is no disproof of tabula rasa. I think the whole issue lies around one’s definition of "knowledge", whether a lion "knows" how to hunt, or a fish "knows" how to swim, or an eagle "knows" how to fly.
In John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke argued that one acquires knowledge …show more content…
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. Crimes that result in the death penalty are capital crimes. The capital offenses include espionage, treason, and death resulting from aircraft hijacking. However, they mostly consist of various forms of murder such as murder committed during a drug-related drive-by shooting, murder during a kidnapping, murder for hire, and genocide.
By killing those who have killed we are also being hypocritical. We are showing that killing is fine, but only sometimes. We are creating this grey area. This limbo that is difficult to distinguish right from wrong. The main raison for the death penalty is to show that killing is wrong. So how do you someone killing is wrong by killing. People often forget that many of these killers have a mother, a father, children who are innocent and will also lose a loved one. So the only result of capital punishment is that it creates more suffering because of what their son/father/brother …show more content…
He wonders why a person’s intent is never taken into account, “Why should a man suffer so grievously for an offense he had committed inadvertently? But although he thought for a long time he found no answer. He was merely led into greater complexities. He remembered his wife’s twin children, whom he had thrown away. What crime had they committed? The Earth had decreed that they were an offense on the land and must be destroyed. And if the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender.”
2/4/16
World Lit Belief Statements
(Existentialism)
I believe in the philosophy that people are born as blank slates (tabula rasa). Blank slate, I believe, means the mind does not have innate concepts. Reflexes, urges, or any other involuntary primitive emotions (fear, hunger, pain, etc...), muscle movements are not concepts. That a baby can crawl, eat, breathe, grasp, cry and even walk before ever saying the first word, or concept, it learns is no disproof of tabula rasa. I think the whole issue lies around one’s definition of "knowledge", whether a lion "knows" how to hunt, or a fish "knows" how to swim, or an eagle "knows" how to fly.
In John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke argued that one acquires knowledge …show more content…
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. Crimes that result in the death penalty are capital crimes. The capital offenses include espionage, treason, and death resulting from aircraft hijacking. However, they mostly consist of various forms of murder such as murder committed during a drug-related drive-by shooting, murder during a kidnapping, murder for hire, and genocide.
By killing those who have killed we are also being hypocritical. We are showing that killing is fine, but only sometimes. We are creating this grey area. This limbo that is difficult to distinguish right from wrong. The main raison for the death penalty is to show that killing is wrong. So how do you someone killing is wrong by killing. People often forget that many of these killers have a mother, a father, children who are innocent and will also lose a loved one. So the only result of capital punishment is that it creates more suffering because of what their son/father/brother …show more content…
He wonders why a person’s intent is never taken into account, “Why should a man suffer so grievously for an offense he had committed inadvertently? But although he thought for a long time he found no answer. He was merely led into greater complexities. He remembered his wife’s twin children, whom he had thrown away. What crime had they committed? The Earth had decreed that they were an offense on the land and must be destroyed. And if the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender.”