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He asked questions until he found out the main reason why he put them in his mouth.\n\n“That the will as well as the understanding is required for judging.”\nThis just means that you have to want to know the truth and understand what you are observing before you figure out what is going on.\n\nIn anthem Equality 72521 found a cave from the past that had light bulbs and this tech got him to really start questioning what he had been told by his collective society.\n\n\n![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSzAaVjMqRpskSHZuqvTaxeNzhei4EUdCtBJzvJVPcisE/image.png)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe next question is how do they find the truth\nRene Descartes decided that he needed a specific method to find the truth and one of the most important steps in his method was to look very closely at the information that he had and in his words“lay aside our prejudices” and make a “Summary of what must be observed in order to philosophize correctly.”\n\nDescartes created a 4 step process\na- Accept ideas as true and justified only if they are self-evident. an idea is self evident if it is clear and distinct in one’s mind.\n b- Analysis: divide complex ideas into their simpler parts. \nc- Synthesis: reach complex ideas by starting with ideas that are the simplest to know.\n d- Exhaustive and complete: the inquiry should be complete and comprehensive. 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God could just change his mind and for people who think the bible is about what God has done then god has commanded people to kill many times. \n\nIf the second horn is true then you don’t need god to know what is moral. It would be like someone telling you the sky was blue because it is blue. You don’t need this person to say the sky is blue for it to be blue; he was just telling you what it was.\n          \n\t\t\t\t\n if something is moral because god said it was moral then morality is arbitrary but\n if god says it is moral because it is moral then you don’t need god to know what is moral.\n\nConnect Evidence to Claim through strong warrant\n Prager is assuming that the first statement is true while also assuming morality is not based upon opinion. This causes a contradiction. \nReason #2: places that reject the divine command theory of morality have a lower  crime rate. \nIf you look at the crime rates, prosperity, equality, freedom, women’s rights, human rights, educational attainment and life expectancy of countries you will find that in secular countries they are higher and the most religious countries have the highest “violent crime rates, high infant mortality rates, high poverty rates and high rates of corruption”(Zuckerman Par. 4 ).\n\nIf you just want to look at how much more peaceful secular societies are The global peace index shows that “Each of the 10 safest and most peaceful nations in the world is also among the most secular... Most of the least safe and peaceful nations, conversely, are extremely religious.(Par. 6 Zuckerman)” \n\nThe countries that are the most secular, “Sweden, Japan, Norway and the Netherlands,” also have the lowest  homicide rates(Par. 5 Zuckerman). Also the countries that are the most theistic, “Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador and Brazil” have the highest Homicide rates. \n\nThis shows that the notion that if god didn’t tell people that murder was wrong then people would kill is wrong. In the places where people listen to god’s commands there are more homicide rates and the places where people don’t listen to god’s commands there are less. It seems that religion causes people to be less moral not more moral and that for someone to be moral they need to reject the idea of a god of morality.\n\nReason # 3    The use of The Categorical imperative which is derived from first principles, The law of non contradiction and the consistency principle, will lead to a very peaceful society. Actions that derive from first principles lead to moral behavior. \nCategorical imperative, which derives from first principles, says to\n\nBehave in such a way that a reasonable generalization of your action to a universal rule will lead to a benefit.\nIf you cannot will that everyone follows the same rule, your rule is not a moral one.\nIt is basically the the golden rule. Treat others the way you would like to be treated. (KANTIAN)\nThe Non aggression principle is a principal that stems from the Categorical imperative and first principles. It states that One shouldn’t initiate force against another and only time to use force is in self defense. This principle can be universally followed by everyone and if it were the world would be very peaceful.\n\nIf you start from first principles it will lead you to objective moral action. \n\nIn our current secular world the rate of death due to wars have diminished from the time periods in which morality was based upon religion doctrine.\n\nEven if individuals rely on the judeo-christion value that morality is due to the existence of god, the forces of science and reason may overcome that irrationality.\n\n\nPeople should embrace the use of objective values based on reason and logic by using reason to know what is moral rather than using an authority figure.\n\nDennis Prager, in other youtube videos, agrees that the use of reason is better than the use of feelings or mystical whims. It would be well to support his comments in these areas where he does use logic and reason.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorks cited\n\"KANTIAN ETHICS.\" , www.csus.edu/indiv/g/gaskilld/ethics/kantian%20ethics.htm.\nKoukl, Greg. \"Euthyphro's Dilemma.\" Stand to Reason, 7 Dec. 2012, www.str.org/articles/euthyphro-s-dilemma#.Xl3w_JNKjUK.\n\nPrager, Dennis, actor. If There Is No God, Murder . 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrcQ_PTkVD4. Accessed 2 Feb. 2020.\n\nZuckerman, Phil. \"Op-Ed: Think religion makes society less violent? Think again.\" Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2015, www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1101-zuckerman-violence-secularism-20151101-story.html. Accessed 2 Feb. 2020.",
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His comparison of the prisoner  and the superintendent symbolize the disparity between the ruling British and the defeated indigenious people. The prisoner himself is condescendingly cartoonish with a mustache “absurdly too big for his body”. This idea is extended by the simile that compares him to “a comic man on the films”(2). The mustache of the prisoner is contrasted with the crisp “toothbrush” mustache of the superintendent which indicates the superior status of the British officer. Later, when the prisoner is taken to the gallows, he is described as like a fish “which is still alive and may jump back into the water”(2). This symbolizes the vitality of the prisoner and shows that the aware consciousness of the prisoner is still present even though it has been seemingly beaten out of him. A dog appears in the scene which symbolizes the joy which is clearly absent from any of these men. When this fragment of joy appears it is quickly squashed by the controlling guards. \n\nAnother powerful symbol is the puddle that the prisoner side steps. It is the nature of a puddle to reflect, and the puddle reflects the reflexes that are very much alive in the prisoner as he steps to a side to avoid it. Suddenly the prisoner is not just a subject of the suffocating British rule but a thinking and reacting human being. This prompts the narrator to see the “unspeakable wrongness of cutting a life short”(8). The prisoner’s body is alive and this is made clear by a list which describes how each part of the body is functioning. “bowels digesting food, skin renewing itself, nails growing, tissues forming-all toiling away in solemn foolery”(8). These symbolic elements show the dreadful harshness of subjugating people when they still have a working, useful mind.\n\nThere is an all encompassing irony to the whole narrative which shows the inconsistency between the British and the Burmese. They are hanging this man for some crime and we don’t know what it is, but the guards and all of the people involved in hanging him are the ones committing the crime. They are not being hanged for their crime. They get no punishment at all. The writer uses logic from the law of non-contradiction to show the irony of hanging people. The law of non-contradiction means that two things that are mutually exclusive can’t both be true. You can’t have A and not A be true at the same time. They are all humans, but the prisoner is being put to death for a crime and the other humans, who are executing the prisoner, are also technically committing a crime, but they are not hanged. Shouldn’t they both be sent to the gallows? The illogic of execution is astounding. Orwell again uses irony as he depicts the dog, the only expression of joy in the scene. It is ironic for a bouncing dog to be seen as “dreadful”, but in the upside down world that Orwell is showing us there is no room for spontaneity “A dreadful thing had happened-a dog come goodness knows whence...tried to lick his face”(5). A dog licking someone's face isn’t usually a dreadful thing, but when they are hanging someone the dog’s innocence illuminates just how immoral they are. In reality it is dreadful because it undermines the credibility of officious magistrates pursuing the act of hanging someone. One last bit of irony occurs when the officials discuss a previous hanging at which the guards were having trouble with a “refractory” condemned man. Francis complains to the prisoner, \"think of all the pain and trouble you are causing to us!\" It was the prisoner who was the one that was feeling the pain. He was going to be killed. The guard has it backwards; he is the one forcing the prisoner to be hanged, and the prisoner’s resistance somehow causes pain for the aggressor. \n\n In A Hanging Orwell creates revealing imagery to show how horrible the injustice of execution is. The image of “brown men” who were contained in cages indicates that the indigenous were the only prisoners and the British were exempt from incarceration. Orwell shows the condemned prisoner as destitute and weak. He then shifts to a description of the British who are irritable and authoritarian. This shift increases a sense of disparity by juxtaposing the despair of the prisoners and the arrogance of the people in charge of the jail. When the guards are taking the prisoner to the gallows, the image of a dog licking the prisoner’s face increases the tension by bringing life and joy into the scene. At the actual execution  the  prisoner cries out desperately for his god. The writer causes our hearing to be pierced when he describes the prisoner’s tortured cry to his god before he is about to be executed “Ram! Ram! Ram! Ram!”(10). This agonizing despair is emphasized by the fact that the dog answers each syllable with a whine. After the execution a Eurasian boy pulls out a silver cigarette case in an attempt to impress his superior and switch the subject from the reality of the life that’s been taken to a shiny object.\n\nOrwell clearly shows that these hangings were desensitizing the minds of the British as well as the Burmese by making them commit acts that they found to be wrong. These horrid acts inhumanity needed to be emphasized in order to wake the reader up. To do this he used powerful symbols biting irony and vivid imagery to allow the reader to be there and experience the shame of the situation. The person who was hanged probably didn’t do anything that involved a victim or he committed a crime that the colonists did all the time. Stealing and killing were things that the colonists needed to do to keep power in Burma. If colonists didn’t steal or punish the oppressed people there would be no political power for the colonists. The British reasoned away their hypocrisy by viewing the indigenous people as subhuman, but Orwell, in his depiction of a brutal hanging, would not allow that. He wanted to show the world that the British refused to treat the Burmese like humans and, instead, they treated them like animals.",
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