Refer
to the "The Filipino and the Drunkard" to answer the following
questions.
1. Do
you think it is acceptable to defend yourself even when you know there will be
consequences? Provide reasons for your response.
2. Is
it in our nature to experience emotions-one thing which has been said to
separate us from animals. Do you think that we must, as humans, control our
emotions? Are there reasons why we should or shouldn't control our emotions?
Explain and give reasons for your response.
Make sure
your response answers both questions and is at least 5 sentences! These are
controversial questions which should generate discussion-if you don't respond to
someone then your not really making your voice HEARD. Respond at least twice to classmates!
105 comments:
I believe that it is acceptable to defend yourself if even it comes with consequences. Anyone should be allowed to defend themselves as long it’s for the right reasons. For example in “The Filipino and the drunkard” the Filipino boy defended himself because the drunkard was harassing him and being hateful toward him; the Filipino boy knew his actions would have consequences. The drunkard didn’t know he would have consequences for his hateful words. It is in the human nature for u to experience emotions. I think we should control our emotions because it can have harmful effects on ourselves and others and everyone has different emotions towards different things.
I indeed think that it is important to defend yourself from harm. It was right of what the Filipino did in the passage. Even if there were consequence to you defending yourself. Everyone should have the opportunity to defend themselves from harm even if there are consequences. It's important to defend yourself. If you don't, it's like letting yourself be pushed around without you without you fighting back. We would might as well be rag dolls if we let people treat us in that manner. Thus, self defense is important even if it was a little more harsh than intended. I think what the Filipino did was a little harsh but yet he could have solved it in a different manner. Even thought the self defense part was crucial.
I think as humans, it's important that we can control our emotions, but the matter of the fact is it depends on the situation. There are times when we need to control our emotions. When someone has done something wrong, you don't scream and yell and get angry. You politely say something or sometimes nothing at all. It also bases on what kind of personality you have. Different people have different reactions. Sometimes there are times when you may not need to watch out or control your emotions, and again it all depends on situations. Overall, I think it is important to control your emotions wether or not the situation.
Great job Jlett6. I agree with you totally, that someone should be able to defend themselves from harm even with consequences! Great Job!
1.Yes, because you don’t just want somebody to come and beat you up and not do anything. Even though you know that there will be consequences you still would want to fight back. And the consequences will not be that bad if they start it or if they hit you first.
2.I think that we should control are emotions because say you lose a baseball game you don’t want to just go off on everybody and start causing a commotion. Also we should control are emotions because sometimes if you don’t then you could get in serious trouble or get your self-caught in to something that you yourself can’t get out of. Also if somebody is trying to help you ones day and you yell at them or disagree with them than they will never help you again.
1. Yes, I think it is acceptable to defend yourself even if there will be consequences because you are in charge of your own life, if someone comes up and threatens you, it is your job to protect yourself form that person, even if it means defending yourself with violence. It is not your job to worry about the person who is attacking you, I is your job to make sure that you stay in control of yourself.
2. I think that it is very important for you to control your emotions because if no one is doing anything to you and you just lash out, what other people are going to think of you, well, they are going to think you are crazy. But, if someone is attacking you, like the drunkard attacked the Filipino, it is also important for you to control your emotions because if you don’t, you could end up seriously hurting yourself and the other person.
JHerrera4 keep up the good work
ehouston4 good job on the blog.
@JHerrera4 Awesome blog! I completely agree with you.
1. I think it is right to use self-defense even though you know the punishment because if someone is trying to hurt you, and you stab them with a knife, you shouldn't go to jail for that because you had to protect yourself.
2. I think at certain times and places you have to control your emotions like if your in a public place, but if it's something really personal that you only discuss with certain people, then you can let the emotions out with those certain people. But I don't think people should let their emotions out all the time because that could backfire.
ehouston4; good job yours is really detailed.
@ehouston4 Your paragraph was on point and I totally agree with you!
JHerrera4 good job with your blog; I totally agree with your opinion.
In this case i think that hed idi right after how many times the drunkard was chasing him and grabbing him for no reason i felt like it was accpetable.The conques in this case should not be bad i mean the drunkard was drunk and he was embarrsing this poor little Filipino about his color.I would have i dont know emtion because at that time white people did not like colored people so if i would of killed them they might of just put him in for murder.the reason why i would not hold my emotions in is because he just kept coming at him again and again so your emtions would have been super mad.
good job mrosario4 nice explaining more about it.
Hlawson3 good job explaing it you told me stuff that i already forgot about good points
Great job @jherrera4, keep up the good work
Awesome blog@jlett6, you had a greatly detailed paragraph!
I think it is acceptable to defend yourself in some ways. If its life or death, you should definitely defend yourself. Otherwise, you can find a way out of it without violence. Sometimes we should control emotions in order to do the right thing. An example is when youre in the caferteria and you are trying not to laugh. In this case, you need to control your emotions. Controlling emotions is only when the focus isnt on you and its not about you.
JLett6 good job! I loved your blog!
mglaeser3 your blog was really good! Great details!
1. Yes i think we have rights to protect our self i would not just sit there and let some one try to beat me our kill me.
2. well if your embarrassed you might try to hide your emotions but you can't really help how you feel about stuff.
jlett6 great post
I believe that it is acceptable to defend yourself even though you know there will be consequences. If someone was harassing or trying to kill you I think you would try and defend yourself without thinking and think that any consequence would be better than being harassed or killed. I think it is in our nature to experience such emotions because we were born with them inside of us and sooner or later they will come out. We should try to control our emotions because they could have harmful effects such as when the boy killed the drunkard in the story. It could also harm the people around us.
I think that it is acceptable to defend yourself even if you know there will be consequences but only if you do not throw the first punch. I think that it is acceptable because if someone hits you then asking them nicely isn’t going to help and if no one is around or willing to help then you have to stand up for yourself and fight. I’m not saying it is ok to kill someone in self-defense unless you have no other choice but it isn’t right to sit there and get hit until someone helps you or the person attacking you stops because the person might not stop and its possible no one will be around you to help or no one will help even if they see you are being hit. I think that it is in our nature to feel emotions but I also think that humans should control their emotions sometimes but not always. The reason I think that we should control our emotions because if humans expressed every thought or feeling they had wars would be impossible to prevent and a fight would always be going on between people. The reason I think not all of our emotions should be controlled is because if all humans were emotionless everyone would stop standing up for what they believe or think so humans would be no better than when they started as cavemen.
lfindley6 your blog was really good.
JHerrera4 great blog you were very specific and detailed.
Great job EHouston4! I agree with you too! we should be able to defend ourselves even if there are consequences! Keep it up! Also, I agree that it is important to control our emotions! Someone could get hurt. Nice job again!
I think it is acceptable to defend yourself even if the consequence is bad at the end. You should be able to prove what's right or what's wrong , and say how you feel about something. Standing up for yourself is probably the best thing you can do in life! Sometimes it's important to control your emotions, because it could lead to a bad outcome if you don't. Think about it, if we all didn't control our emotions then the world would be upside down basically. So, yes we should control our emotions.
@kbailey6 Great job I like the way you explained your point.
@ehouston4 I agree with what you said, keep up with the great work.
I think it is acceptable to defend yourself even when you know there is going to be consequences. I think that because if u do defend yourself make sure they throw the first punch. If they do throw the first punch that means you can throw one too because it is self-defense. When it is self-defense does not mean that u have to kill them it means to make them seriously injured because they tried to hit you first. Yes i think we should control our emotions because you may get mad at many things that you should not be getting mad at. You should be able to cry and get mad but only at the times that you need to get mad and cry. Also if you do not control your emotions you might end up doing something bad like killing someone.
I think it is acceptable to defend yourself. If you were being beaten or something you need to defend yourself. If you don’t then you’re basically letting the person take over you. Sometimes you need to control your emotions. If you were at a funeral and then you start laughing uncontrollably while people are sad and crying, then you will definitely not look normal. Sometimes you need to cry or punch a wall and let your emotions out, but you don’t need to do something like that in public.
ehouston4 good job on your blog it was nice, long, and detailed.
Hlawson3 I totally agree with you. Nice blog.
@Kbaily6 good job at using good details and giving reasons.
@Ehouston4 you used great details.
In my opinion I think that you do have the right to defend yourself with or without consequences because if someone is bothering you or harassing you then you should be able to defend yourself if anyone came at you. Or even if they are threatening you for anything that isn’t right. For example if someone would come up to you and hit you for no good reason then you should be able to hit them back.
I think that we should be able to control our emotions because if you feel like killing someone or doing something wrong for some reason you shouldn’t be able to just go out and kill any person for any good reason.so we should be able to and kind of have to control our emotions and feelings to anything.
Jclarke3 Good Job!
Lfindley6 Great Job!
I think that it is acceptable to defend yourself because if you want to live then you should have the right to defend your life, even if it costs another person theirs. I'm not saying that you should look for people to kill and say you were defending yourself when the police asks you why you did it, I'm saying that if necessary you should defend yourself. I also think that it is important to have control over our emotions, because in the real world people don't care. For example if you don't money to buy groceries and you go to the cash register and beg it's not going to change anything. This is my opinion on these things.
I think it is acceptable to defend yourself even if there will be consequences. For example, if someone were trying to kill you I think it would be okay to kill them. It would be necessary if you want to stay alive. I think that we should control our emotions to a point. Like it's okay if you want to start crying if you find out your parents died, but you shouldn't just start screaming at your teacher if you get a bad grade on a test.
@kbailey6 Good job! That was really detailed.
@jlett6 Great job. I totally agree with you.
Yes you should for that is the reason we have self-defense as a right today. If you were chased down the walk and you were caring a hand bag with a gun for protection you should be able to be able to protect yourself with the weapon. Yes we do have emotions and scientist believe that is why we as people are different from animals, although some people have disabilities that enable us to control our emotions. There are reasons we should be able to control our emotion for if we don’t then the would be in a nonstop war, and then eventually the world as we know it would just end.
blythgoe4 good job awsome details and great responce.
bking3 good job as well awsoem responce
1. Yes, I think that it is totally acceptable to defend yourself even if there are consequences. If no one has the courage or decency to stand up for you than you have to stand up for yourself. Also, if there are consequences, then you’ll just have to deal with them. I think it’s best to get past one thing and deal with another. If you did something that was, in my opinion, required then at least own up to it and deal with the consequences.
2. I think that emotions cloud human’s judgments and personally I find emotions irrelevant. We have the power to control our emotions if we put the effort to do so. I don’t find it to be a “must do” situation to control your emotions but it’s definitely an important thing to do. Emotions can make people break down, have crazy thoughts, feelings, actions, judgments and they aren’t relevant. Now, on the other hand, there are good emotions that aren’t terrible to put focus too, such as love, happiness, etc.
@jmobley3 Great Job!
@bking3 amazing!
Yes, I think it is important for you to stick up for yourself even if there are consequences behind it. Because if you stand up for yourself people or that person who ever it is will know I’m not the for you to bothering with. Sometimes you have to let them know you they better go find them somebody else to mess with. So if you stand for yourself now you really have nothing to worry about in the future. But that doesn’t mean just go around and go off on people just because they say something out of the way to you. Keep your cool until you have to let it all out. As humans it’s up to us to control our emotions. But at some point you have to let it all out not just let stuff build up. Because when you let stuff build at the end you may just explode. And sometimes you do have to hold back emotions. So just don’t always let it go; but also let some steam of sometimes.
JHerrera4 Great job on your blog! Those are good reasons.
Jlett6 Great work on the blog! I agree with you.
1) The second amendment states that we have the right to bear arms. I believe that we should defend ourselves when in danger. There are consequences for everything, weather it is good or bad. There are even terrible consequences for what we know is right. It's a part of life and human nature.
2) I've always learned growing up that you need to control tour emotions. If you don't, things will go too far and too out of hand. I think to be mature is to be able to control your emotions and not storm off in anger or take jokes to an extreme.
Great blog JHerrera4! :)
Amazing job kbailey6! I agree that you shouldn't be the first to attack.
Yes I think it is acceptable to defend yourself if you know there is consequences because the drunkard would of killed the Filipino if he did not defend himself and I think he would have been alive than been dead. Yes I think we humans need to control are emotions. Yes I think there is reasons like so that you don’t hurt anybody.
jlett6 good job on your blog.
jherrera also a great job on your blog.
I believe that we should defend ourselves, regardless of the consequences. You shouldn’t let yourself get pushed around, even with little stuff, because that can grow into something larger. It might start with letting some kid steal your graham crackers in Kindergarten, but it could escalate over time to you eventually being mugged and killed in a dark alley at midnight, and you never fought back. This is why I agree with the Filipino’s actions: he didn’t go looking for trouble, but he didn’t let himself get pushed around either.
I think that controlling your emotions is very important, because if you don’t, then you will never get very far in life. Controlling our emotions allows us to overcome things, and that is definitely something necessary for lots of different things in life. If something bad happens, and instead of getting around it you break down and cry for four days, you’re not really ever going to get much out of life.
@kbailey6: great blog post! I completely agree with what you said.
@Hlawson3: nice job! You had some really good points!
I think that it is important to defend yourself even when you know there will be consequences. Think about it. If a person who hold a knife and wants to kill you. Are you going to let that guy kill you? Of course not. You're going to protect yourself from that guy like running away, hitting that guy or something, even you could predict the consequences. And in my opinion, we should control our emotions. When someone made a mistake, and it was very important thing to you, if you did not control your emotions, you might get angry and shout to that person. However, if you control your emotion, you will talk nicely than you didn't control it. Therefore, we should control our emotions.
@Jlett6- Great job on your blog!
@JHerrera4- Nice blog!I like it!
We do have the right to defend ourselves, but we must always consider the consequences first. If the consequences are too severe, we must think before acting out. In “The Filipino and the Drunkard”, I don’t think just because someone doesn't treat you well gives you the right to take his life. Killing is bad no matter what, and such an action should only be taken when there is no other choice left. In the Filipino’s case, there were a lot other less violent alternatives which he ignored. Defending ourselves is alright, but when we stop caring about the consequences, we cease to become any different from the person we are defending against.
We, humans, generally, express more emotions than animals. But we also have the power to control our emotions. This is another thing which makes us different from animals. Learning to control our emotions is very important. It not only makes everything easier for us, but also for people around us. I, again, refer to the Filipino’s decision to kill the drunkard. He couldn't control his emotions. His emotions affected his thinking and, in extension, his actions. Thus, we may conclude that our emotions are, sometimes, responsible for the consequences we have to face. Controlling our emotions may give us some control over our consequences.
If someone wasn't drunk and you tried to stop them from something stupid, and it doesn't work I think that's the right time to defend yourself knowing the consequences. But if the person is drunk and they don't know what they are doing I don't think it's acceptable to defend yourself knowing the consequences. I think we as humans should control are emotions, because if you don't control your emotions you could hurt or kill someone. Winston Mosley had that problem where you can't control your emotions and you kill someone. If no one controls their emotions there will be to many crimes in this world.
I think that it is important to defend yourself because it could be a life or death situation. But you have to know the right ways to defend yourself so you wouldn't get into much trouble. It is in human nature for us to control our emotions.Some things that we might say or hear can be hurtful to others and we might not know it. Our different emotions can also be towards different things that we might not know that we were putting them towards that.
Jherra4 good job
Mrosario4 great job
kchrisopulos3
Great blog!It was very long and detailed.
jclark3
Great blog!
I think is ok to defend yourself, if it’s for a good reason. What would you do if a maniac was coming at you trying to kill you? Would you hide in the corner and let him hit you, and kill you, or would you fight back, and defend yourself? If you ask me I’m fighting back. I think we can also control are emotions, I was saw the movie After Earth, and the one thing they said over and over again was “ fear is a choice.” Just like anger or hate. You can control your emotions, just like the Drunkard had control of his hatred towards the Filipino.
Great blog jleet6
Nice blog jclark3
Yes, I think it is ok to defend yourself even if there is going to be consequences. I think that standing up and defending yourself defines who you are as well as how much respect you have for yourself. Anyone should be able to defend themselves as long as it’s for the right reasons. Also, yes, as humans I think we are responsible for controlling our emotions. Not doing so may lead to big mistakes that you might not have experienced if you had controlled your emotions. Both of these questions tie in with consequences and if our actions deserve them or not. But in this case, if it’s the right situation, standing up for yourself and controlling your emotions is a must.
qnuttall6,
Great support for your thoughts, I completely agree with you.
mmoffitt6,
I could not agree with you more. Great job on your blog.
1. If you are under attack, physically or verbally, then you should be allowed to defend yourself. I am not trying to say violence is okay but if your circumstances are similar to the Filipino and the drunkard then you need to hit back. In a life or death situation choosing your life against another’s isn’t that bad.
2. I think we can control our emotions but others can dictate our emotions with their actions. For example if someone starts bulling you can either ignore them, lash out in anger, or feel sorry for yourself. Their actions give you a choice of emotions but you choose one to feel or act out.
jlett6 nice job on using an example from the text
jherrera4 your blog is very thought provoking
I do think it is acceptable to defend yourself even if there are consequences. If you are in trouble and you have a chance to defend yourself then you should. Everyone has a right to defend themselves so I am sure if someone was in that situation they wouldn't think twice about the consequences. I think people do need to control their emotions but in some circumstances it is hard to control them. I think it is right to experience emotions especially different kinds.
@jmobley3 I agree with you a 100 percent, great job and I like your example.
@lfindley6 Great job on this blog, I agree with what your opinion is, great job again.
1) I think that it is acceptable to defend yourself if you know that there will be consequences because I'd rather be in trouble than to end up possibly dead or injured.
2) I think that all humans should control their emotions. If we don't there would probably be a lot of trouble going on everywhere. For example, people would probably get in fights with strangers in public if they did something they didn't like. Unless you have a disorder or something, you should be able to control your emotions.
jlett6, good job giving examples!
jherrera4 yours was very long and well written!
Yes I think it is ok to defend yourself if you have good reason to even if there are consequences. If it is something little then I would not do something, but if I was in that situation the Filipino was in I would have done the same thing as the Filipino did. I believe that we control our emotions, and we should always. I think it is important thing to do because if we don’t it could have consequences, like if you are applying for a job it is important to have calm emotions. If you don’t you could risk not getting the job.
cnechodom4 I totally agree with you. Great Job.
qnuttall6 Love your supporting details.
I think that when the time comes and you’re in danger you should defend yourself, even if there are consequences. But it depends on the circumstances and if it not truly necessary than you shouldn’t use physical force. For example in The Filipino and Drunkard, I think it was necessary that the Filipino defended himself because he was threatened and chased and he was in danger. He warned the Drunkard and gave him a chance to leave but he didn’t so he did what had to be done to protect himself, even though he hated doing it and he knew there would be consequences. I think we as human, experiences emotions that sometimes are hard to control but we should try to control them as much as we can because that’s what separates us from animals and the effects of us losing control of ourselves can badly affect other people and ourselves, but it depends on the situation.
JHerrera4,
Good Job on your post! I like your reasoning on the questions and I thought they were well thought out.
Jlett6,
Good job on your post! I liked the detail and your reasoning on the subject.
I think t is important to defend yourself from harm even if their will be consequences.
like in the Filipino and the drunkard, the little Filipino had to defend himself and protect his own life. Especially when no one around would help, no one in the world has a right to push you around and you don't have to stand for it.
I also think as human beings we should control our emotions to a certain extinct. some emotions you cant hold in, like if your feeling depressed or worst those type of emotions can lead to many deaths. It also depends on the situation, you cant put your feelings out on everyone if its not the right time. You don't go off on someone from a little bump or word that was said. As humans you must control your controllable feelings.
RQualls4... that's a good way to look at things
Yes that it is I think totally acceptable to defending yourself. Especially when you have tried to get out of the situation telling the person countless times that you don’t want any trouble and have asked them to go away. Even if the consequences could be jail I’d rather jail for a couple of years over my life. I personally think that you should contain your anger as much as you can. Most people can only control there anger to a certain extent, but to be honestly I think that’s everyone. So yes but you can only do that for so long until you break.
Yes that it is I think totally acceptable to defending yourself. Especially when you have tried to get out of the situation telling the person countless times that you don’t want any trouble and have asked them to go away. Even if the consequences could be jail I’d rather jail for a couple of years over my life. I personally think that you should contain your anger as much as you can. Most people can only control there anger to a certain extent, but to be honestly I think that’s everyone. So yes but you can only do that for so long until you break.
@jonesc4 i agree with what you said about the part when you said no one has the right to push you around.
@aouellette i agree, you should experience new emotions.
I think that when the Filipino was getting attacked by the drunkard it was reasonable for the Filipino to defend himself because, he warned the drunk man. he told the drunk man to go away and leave him alone several times but the drunk man did not listen and died. As a human we all have emotions and thoughts but some of those things should be kept inside of you mind because if they get loose people could be affined or hurt. we should all be capable of controlling our emotions and making sure we don not loose it. If we do not control our emotions bad things can happen to you and others, if you fail to contain these emotions depending on what they are you could get in fights or jail.
great job on your blog jherrera4 and jlett6 they were great.
Great job amartin3 I like how you included the Fillipino.
Awesome job jherrera4 your bloc was great.
Yes of course I think it is acceptable to defend yourself consequences or not. In a time and situation when ur being a attacked to the point where your have to defend yourself from that indivisual, by all means do what you have to do to protect yourself. Although it upsets me to know that say if someone is coming at you with a knife and you end up using self defense, and end up killing that person you still get in trouble? secondly, in a way i think we should most certainly try to control our emmotions. Although that can be very difficult if you are attached to the thing in any way. Also when i think about it animals are very similar to us in that way.
I believe that it is acceptable to defend your self even if it comes with consequences. what the filipino did was right because he was fearing for his life an to keep his life going, he had to end another, but at the same time he possibly helped save another because if that man got drunk again he could have done the same thing. I think we should control our emotions because some emotions that people experience can get very out of control and like in the story it could end with death.
I do think it is acceptable to defend your self even if comes with consequences. If it is a serious situation. Like in "The Filipino and the Drunkard". the drunk kept harassing the boy and grabbed him. He could have killed the boy if he hadn't stabbed him. The Filipino did what he had to do.
I think it is in human nature to experience emotions. Different people experience different emotions. But we need to control our emotions because if someone hates someone else and really wants to kill them then they need to keep that to them selves and not kill the person. In the essence, "controlling there emotions".
Jlett6 great comment keep up the good work!
JHerrea4 awesome detailed comment keep it up!
@jlett and @ jherrera4 : yall post was great yall gave details and examples! keep up the good work!
Yes ,i believe you should let people know how you feel and show who you really are.Even if it comes with consequences.i also believe we should control our emotion as humans.Some people have a desison to cry or be happy,but that has to stop at one point.for example,everyone has emotions but if u let that get out of control like the brunkard and the flippno that is not okay.
Yes ,i believe you should let people know how you feel and show who you really are.Even if it comes with consequences.I also believe we should control our emotion as humans.Some people have a desison to cry or be happy,but that has to stop at one point.For example,everyone has emotions but if u let that get out of control like the brunkard and the flippno that is not okay.
1.) I think it is okay to defend yourself as long as it is self-defense like it was in the story. If you don’t defend yourself then people could always walk all over you, also you could get hurt. I think you can defend yourself to an extent, if someone is only chasing you then you shouldn’t kill him or her. I think he could have defended himself better without killing the drunken man.
2.) I think that people should control their emotions because if everyone did what they felt when they were angry, then a lot of people would probably be injured. For example, when people are annoying or mean, I really want to yell at them or punch them to let my anger out, but if I did that then I would look like a full, plus I could get arrested. Also, you may feel something one moment and hurt that person if you didn’t control your emotions, and then regret the decision you made in the future.
I agree! @jherrera4
Good job! That was a good example. @mrosario4
JHerrera4 good job and u explained your point of view clearly.
lfindley6 good job on explaining your comment clearly
I think yes because even though your defending yourself there won't actually be any consequences depending on what's happening. I see it as if you're about to die and you kill him or her that's self-defense and you wouldn't get in trouble. Yes, and I think that, "us humans", should be able to control or emotions without trouble. If there any reasons that we couldn't is if you have anger issues or anything like that.
I think it is not wrong to defend your self, because what would u do if I did not fight back u would always get pushed around. also I think that we as humans have weird emotion like when some one dies your first instinct is to cry. also you probably have to defend your self because some one might try to fight you or try to kill you because of a type of emotion that u show towards an emotion.
Jlett6, way to stay on topic!
Jherra4, way to have good examples!
I think it is acceptable to defend yourself even when you know there will be consequences. If you are being abused or harmed in anyways you should be able to fight back. In my opinion, if I was being harassed, I would fight back and try to keep myself from being harassed. I would result in harming the abuser or attacker if it came down to it. Also, I believe that it is in our nature to experience emotions, however some can’t control theirs. We must control our emotions, because if we don’t we might cause a commotion. We might harm someone physically or mentally. We must be cautious, because if we are not we could not only hurt others, but ourselves.
@JLett6
I agree that the Filipino had a perfectly good right to protect himself against the man.
@SPhillips4
I like how you gave great reasons of why to keep your emotions to yourself.
I think it is perfectly fine to defend yourself even though there will be consequences. Anytime someone offends you or makes you have any reason to want to defend yourself you should because I believe that those actions can build up inside of you and affect your future. As humans we should defiantly control our emotions because if everyone went around saying what’s on their mind, complaining, or yelling life would be very difficult. If someone got extremely frustrated or mad and went on a random shooting that would take many innocent lives. I also think that if a family member or friend passes away it is important to find a way to grief without completely losing it.
I agree APerez3, good job.
Good job acollazo6!
I do think it is acceptable to defend yourself even though there will be consequences, because if someone tried stabbing you I think you should try and fight back instead of just going ahead and letting them stab you. I think that everyone experience motions and us experiencing motions does separate us from animals. If humans didn’t have any motions no one would be able to know or understand what’s wrong with them. Yet as humans we should control our emotions, because you wouldn’t want someone getting extremely angry and trying to hurt people, in that case they should be able to control themselves to stop. Reasons we should control our emotions, is because some people if their emotions aren’t controlled then the can end up being a crazy mess. That’s why it’s important that people should control their emotions instead of taking it out on other people.
@ehunziker4, I totally agree, great job.
@acollazo6, I do agree that you should fight back if its to the point you need to, good job.
I do think that it is acceptable to defend your self in any situation where your life is in danger, or you are threatened with pain or death. If you are faced with harm or death I think that you should defend your self because no one has the right to take your life or happiness. That is even in the constitution, and they are our natural rights.We can't control our emotions but we can as humans resist to act based on our emotions. If you just act on your emotions, you would be more violent, rude, and annoying to the others around you, and you might hurt the ones that you love.
RQualls4
great job on the blog.
nbrook6
I completely agree, so true.
I do think it is acceptable to defend yourself even when there are consequences. I believe this because if not defend yourself means getting physically injured, then you definitely should. Either way you would have something bad happen. It is our nature to experience emotions, because if we didn’t experience them than we would have no reaction to anything at all. I do believe that we should control our emotions, depending on the circumstance. An example of this is if someone upsets you than you should not punch them, you should calm down. But if someone dies that is close to you, then people would understand if you cry or are depressed.
@acash3 awesome blog! Keep up the good work!!!
@ehunziker4 you did a great job, and hit the main point of the blog!
In a situation like the one the Filipino boy was in I would probably defend myself. I think it would be not smart to give up my life or freedom just because a man decided to get drunk and kill somebody. But I do think that it was not a good idea to kill a white man on a boat were everybody witnesses the killing, but it was very dangerous to do that when you are a Filipino during that time. I think that is okay to show emotion in the appropriate times. But you can’t get sad about the smallest things, like losing your pencil or something.
I do think it is right to defend yourself even when you know there will be consequences. I think this way because you cant just let someone push you around and keep quite. The Filipino in the story I don't think should have gone that far and killed the Drunkard, But in a smaller scenario you should defend yourself.
I do think you should control your emotions, because you cant just let all your emotions run.
jlett6 good comment.
Jherrera4 nice job!
I think it is acceptable to defend yourself because it would be better to face the consequences than to end up possibly dead. I do think us humans should control our emotions because if you didn't than this world would be filled with fighting and anger.
tbolton4: good job! you met the requirments and gave many examples.
acollazo6: I like how you numbered them and gave examples!
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