DeAngelo Aviles

HUMA 1100

Dowsakul

16 October 2019

Depending on the type of crime, my moral responsibility for a crime like stealing
would be to report the crime to the store owner or to law enforcement and resolve the
issue immediately. But in reality, I would witness the fight and hope the issue is solved
later on and do nothing to resolve the issue. The article written for this question
mentions the ideology of “offering an explanation about a social problem, but then take
no action to change things themselves (Burrowes).” In my personal thoughts, I feel that
some issues have more control than others, but in this instance, it’s not my
responsibility to solve an issue like this, which goes along with the philosophy about my
moral responsibility as a human being. In the video about the psychology of evil by
Zimbardo, he goes off on a tangent on how the emphasis of heroic figures are not seen
at an early age, and how we should always choose the right in any given circumstance.
Branching out, depending on the crime, if assault were to happen, I would try my best to
stop the scene. But if I was threaten to get killed if I were to stop the fight, the scenario
would be hard me to stop, preventing me from stopping a crime.

When there is a sense of authority, people’s need to conform to society’s standards

become passive, and move with the waves of the ocean. The study in which the selected
people were able to shock the candidates to 450 hertz (a dangerous voltage), showed
tremendous results, in which they found 2/3’s of the “shockers” went all the way, even
though it would cause extreme pains to the candidates, due to them not being at fault,
giving them the power to engage in such actions. Collective responsibility is an issue we
see nowadays that shows how individuals might go along with the grain of the steak, not
against the grain of the steak. A powerful leader enforces such actions, but the people
who are unaffected and do nothing about the situation, fail to act, which causes mass
killings or ethnic cleansings.
This question is hard to answer. In general, it is not right to say any other person is
better than somebody else’s life. In this sense, this question might be referring to the
article, in which Bill Gates discovers the rotavirus for the first time, and donates to his
charity to build water wells for access to fresh water, but that doesn’t deny the fact that a
child’s life is precious in any manner, regardless of their socioeconomic status.
DeAngelo Aviles

HUMA 1100

Dowsakul

16 October 2019

Expanding on this idea of “some”, this question maybe asking about the idea of charity,
and who donates: the rich or the middle-class? This idea of the rich donating their assets
towards charities due to disposable income is common and is expected by working-
class people on how donating tools that will help provide vaccinations, water pumps,
and education, is seen as prominent for the higher class. The middle-class is seen as
constantly working, 9-to-5, shows how they must support themselves than the lives of
others. Along with going with idea of one’s life being “worth more”, or relationships with
others might dictate whether they’re important to us due to moral needs. For example,
family considers in that we are exposed to the daily, and we develop relationships with
them, being worth more than others.