- Would you rather be a slave-owner or a slave? Consider all aspects of either role; what you can do and what you have to put up with on a regular basis. As always, think and explain.
- Choose one of two options:
- The closest person to you emotionally dies in a car crash.
- 1000 people die in a plane crash and explosion in India.
Monday, October 26, 2009
ROMOTHINK
I asked you two ROMOTHINK questions today. I do not care much about your answer(s). Rather, I care about your reasoning. You need to THINK, process, THINK, argue, reason, etc. And it is OK to change your mind!
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You speak Russian too!?
ReplyDeleteI was gone today, can I do the Romothink questions tomorrow in class?
ReplyDeleteNora (and anyone else absent today - or out because I sent you away) - do them in the COMMENTS here.
ReplyDelete1. I'd choose to be a slave. I originally thought I'd rather be the slave-owner, because I figured it'd be nicer to sit on my porch sipping iced tea than to bask in the hot sun picking corn. Although the role of the slave-owner is more leisurely I can't imagine that I'd be able to live with myself knowing I owned another human being to do my labor with no compensation at all, not to mention no freedom. I think that during the time that it was customary to own slaves, it was justifiable because it was a normal part of the economy and everyone was doing it. In hindsight, I can see all the ethical wrongs and I wouldn't be able to live with myself. So, even though life as a slave would be a nightmare, I'm choosing that life simply because I can't possibly fathom the life of the people who are responsible for giving slaves that life.
ReplyDelete2. I'd choose to have 1000 people unrelated to me die in a plane crash because it wouldn't have the personal connection to my life. When a tragedy occurs, unless someone you know was involved, it doesn't hit home emotionally, but instead tugs at your heartstrings for a period of time, and makes you feel sympathetic, but also lucky that no one you know got hurt. For example, when the Twin Towers were attacked, I grieved for the families and loved ones of the people who lost their lives, but as the years have passed and the anniversaries of 9/11 have become less raw and acknowledged, I don't associate it with the deaths as much as a remember what I was feeling on the day it happened, which was confusion and little understanding. Had one of my parents or family friends been involved, the day would be one of sadness, but as a 4th grader who had never even heard of the World Trade Centers before it happened, it wasn't possible for me to care a whole lot. If someone extremely close to me died on the other hand, I don't think I'd be emotionally able to pick up the pieces and move on. I'd dwell on it and be reminded of it in every aspect of my life.
1. I will prefer to be a slave, because if I choose to be a slave owner and said that I will treat my slave in a good way and be nice with them that’s a lie, because if we go back in the pass that wasn’t the case, they had another believes. If I was a slave at least I will have values and a history that someday is going to make a impact.
ReplyDelete2. I will prefer my close person to die, well if I could give my life it may be nicer but that’s not the case of the question. I choose my close person because if I choose the 1000 it will have a worse impact, more then 1000 families will have a huge impact in their life’s, even do that they are not relate to me some of them will have kids, that are going to be a lone. If I choose only one person to die and just change my life that will be better then changing 1000 families’ life.
1. I would rather be a slave-owner because I don't think that I would be capable of being told what to do all the time, especially physical labor. If I was a slave-owner, I would be a nice one. It wouldn't be impossible to be a nice slave-owner because it all depends on the person you are. You either choose to be nice or you choose to be strict with them. I wouldn't choose to own a person but I would not be a slave to anyone!
ReplyDelete2. Call me selfish but I wouldn't want anyone close to me dying. I would choose the plane crash. It wouldn't affect me as much as someone close to me dying. No one in my family has died and I don't want to know what it feels like. Of course, I'd rather have no one die but if I had to choose, it wouldn't be someone close to me.