My Blog #7

My belief in sex is to be open about it and if you're going to engage it in be safe about who you have sex with. I agree with Goldman's argument because I do believe in "plain sex", sometimes humans just want to engage, because of the positives that come from sex. Telling humans to control their sexual desire means more than what its said to be. We do know that we just can't have sex with whoever we want, it doesn't work that way at all. But what we do know is that we have self control to not just go out and rape everyone we find sexually attractive. Sure, incest is wrong but the act of having sex isn't and the way Scruton tries to discuss it like something that should be behind closed doors. I have a problem with his argument because he's using love as a way to explain his feelings on sex. If you look at animals, they mate and find a "lover" and reproduce but are not somewhat married. Animals have sex all the time and it's just "plain sex", so I believe that we are no different then animals. We just want to survive and have sex to have fun or to reproduce.

I guess what I would need to understand is people see sex from their own perspective, sometimes freely or religiously. I see why some people see "sex" as a topic that shouldn't be freely discussed because it's personal like using the bathroom but someone's going to bring it up in your lifetime and you must have an open mind to other people's views. I see why Scrunton feels the way he feels because flirting, for example, leads to sex eventually and what if the sex isn't for love, he feels its wrong to engage in sex than. Scrunton believes in controlling your sexual desires but thats not as easy as it seems, that's like not feeding yourself when you stomach is grumbling.

I commented on Javier Luque http://javiluq.blogspot.com/ and Catherine Alzamora's blog http://catherinedba.blogspot.com/

My Blog #6

My belief on the death penalty is to be for it because these are convicted criminals who have harmed and murdered another living human being. I do feel as if lethal injection is too easy because its painless and they have not "suffered" at all. Putting them to death is giving them a reward, not a punishment. I believe in alternatives such as manual labor, working the prisoners like slaves on farms or doing clean up jobs in the brutal heat because they don't have a choice. They need to pay their debt to society in labor by doing jobs no one else would do. For example, if a serial has a need to kill, why not send him/her to war where they can do what pleases them and help the nation in a positive way. If the person dies, in a sense they deserved it but at least they weren't a waste to society. Another example, can be those who get a thrill of killing can be pest exterminators for sewer companies or work in slaughter houses, anything that the nation can benefit from.

My principles do need a little adjusting because these inmates are still human beings, they are not cattle. But they can find someway to help the nation positively until they die either naturally or on the job due to heat exhaustion or something. I disagree with Hook because if a person who kills fifty people doesn't deserve to be put to death, then what conditions does put you on death row? Letting a person simply rot in jail does nothing positive for the society, prison system, nor the inmate. I would rather an inmate die of a heart attack due to working long hard hours than just simply rotting in jail or getting a simple injection.

I commented on Javier Luque's blog http://javiluq.blogspot.com/ and Catherine Alzamora's blog http://catherinedba.blogspot.com/

My Blog #5

With the second contemporary issue being abortion, I am for abortion personally because of a variety of reasons. I have a problem with people brining children into the world that will have horrible moral values and grow up in poverty, if you cannot afford the expenses and give the time to raising a child, there isn't a point having it at all. Sure, women do happen to unexpectedly become pregnant but does that mean they should be punished with a unwanted child? Children aren't punishments, they're creations of a man and a woman, and abortion may be horrible but raising an unwanted baby may not end too well. Also, women who become pregnant because they're rape victims should not be forced to keep a life they never wanted at all actually, its a woman's body and she has the right to do whatever she pleases with it medically.

I did see areas of adjusting in my principles actually because I now am aware of the actually process of abortion and how it can damage a woman's body physically and psychologically. Sometimes by having an abortion, a woman may not be able to have another children again after just killing the baby that was developing. I have an issue with Warren saying instead of abortion, there is adoption but adoption doesn't solve the problem. Children grow up feeling they weren't wanted and are not important to their birth mother. In today's society, its embarrassing for a child to acknowledge the fact that he/she was adopted and doesn't actually live with their birth mother.

I commented on Ashanti Jones' blog http://ashantijones.blogspot.com/and MaameAma Mefful's blog http://meffstonespeaks.blogspot.com

My Blog #4

Human cloning goes against by beliefs in so many different ways, its unnecessary to make another "clone" of a human being. Its not natural birth and the expectations and the difficulties the clone will have to experience growing up. It challenges my views by trying to find beneficial ways a clone can help families and society, but what no one tends to realize is the clone being raised to become like its original and not have its own identity. Also, by making clones of people, the population grows rapidly because in a way, a person's genetic DNA never dies so in a way, a person can live forever. Today's population is already an issue and cloning humans adds more to the problem, along with dodging death.

The philosopher I can go with is the Tao and Taosim because human cloning isn't natural at all. It goes against the natural flow of life and death and when that is toyed with, life is changed and people become selfish creating an identical person to take the place of a loved one. The Tao has an issue with people striving for more and trying to achieve a material to be happy, without desire, a person does not suffer and if you can deal with a loved one's death, life will go on. Adding a clone in the picture only makes things awkward and complicated.

I am commenting on Becky Bradley's blog,  http://becksbradley.blogspot.com/. As well as Jess Biondi's blog, http://jessbiondi.blogspot.com/.