Blog Assignment #2

1. Were the questions on the Moral Sense Test difficult to answer (psychologically, emotionally, conceptually, technically, etc.)? Why or why not? Do you think your responses to the Moral Sense Test questions were consistent? Does this matter?
- Well I think only a couple of the senerios were difficult to find a reasonable answer for, some of the senerios passed through boundries of religion, cultures, and personal opinions, so finding the punishment for those senerios were somewhat difficult to answer, because it really does just depend on where and when that senerio was based on.
I believe acouple of my responses were consistant, usually with the question about whether the senerio was a bad or good, most of my answer were on the bad side. It does very much matter, and shows that I am very conservative and understand that bad is bad and usually ends up with punishment.

2. Should people always follow the law? Why or why not? When might one be justified in NOT following the law? Give examples.
- No, but it should be followed the majority of the time. Self-defense is a good prime example of not following the law, doing the harm to someone is against the law, but once someone is undergoing an attack, sometimes to survive one must attack back.

3. In your own words, explain what "social convention" means. Give examples.
- I would define social convention as different customs that arent formed by law, but formalized by customs of that culture. Im not 100% if that is right, but i believe an examplu would be like, we wave to say hello and goodbye, but in the east side they bow to each other to show respect. another example would be some times here in the U.S. we pray before we eat dinner, other countries do a tribal dance or recite quotes before they feast for dinner.

4. Should people always follow the conventions of their society? Why or why not? Give examples.
- Like I said before its not law to follow, but well respected if followed in that community. People should follow conventions really depending on what society they happen to be in at that time. Some societies believe in human sacrafices, and some believe in every life is valuable and should be treasured. So depending on what conventions your acustomed to, and what customs you planning to follow, will give you an idea if you really want to follow or not.

5. Should people always follow their own principles? Why or why not? Give examples.
- Yes i believe everyone should all have there own personal principles and which ones they are willing to cross and ones they will refuse to cross. Without principles, people wouldnt know what to believe in and what is right or wrong. Like when it comes to deciding whether you should keep something you found on the ground with no one around to possibly claim it to or give the something to the nearest community or person.

6. Explain in your own words the difference between socially acceptable, legally acceptable, and morally acceptable.
- I would define socially acceptable as an behavior or manner acceptable in a specific society, because all socities are different even behavior wise. Legally acceptable really pertains to law, being legally acceptable I would define as reaching the requirements needed to be passed in that society. Morally acceptable is the decisions, either good or bad, that is made to become passed in the society.

7. Out of 25 points, how many points do you feel your work on this assignment deserves? Justify your answer.
- I feel i deserve a 20 out of 25, because my answers were not as exact as I wanted it to be, and feel that my answer are far off subject sometimes. I also most likely have some grammer and spelling problems in here somewhere.

Blog Assignment #1

1. How would you have explained the meaning of the term "ethics", before taking this class?
- To be honest, the first time I ever remember seeing the word "ethics" was in the movie "Billy Madison" with Adam Sandler right after the he made everyone dumber speech. I don’t remember a word the actor said in the movie, let alone know what the word meant back then. I didn’t really find the meaning of the term, till the end of my high school year and I described it as during a time of decision, the ethic a person's choice depended on his or her own personal views of the problem, whether it's good or bad.

2. What are some of your deepest held values?
- My deepest values would have to be my family, education is also pretty important and trust.

3. What are some main principles you try to live your life by?
- Well I really try to live by honesty, which is really hard to accomplish when keeping a promise to keep a secret and never lying collide. I also try to be hard-working all the time, and to keep everyone I know to the best of my ability.

4. What moral qualities do you look for in others?
- It would really depend for me, whether it’s becoming friends, or working together. In general, I believe I would look for that there honesty, hardworking, and at least mostly friendly.

5. How were your values and principles developed?
- They were all mostly developed from past bad experiences, which later taught me lessons, including on principles I search for in others. Honesty is a major for me, being cheated, lied, and deceived can greatly affect how someone views the world.

6. How have your values and principles changed throughout your life so far?
- Greatly! I use to believe that everyone was good at the start, and never intentionally meant to cause harm to someone else. So everyone I met, I believed and trusted everything they said.

7. Out of 25 points, how many points do you feel your work on this assignment deserves? Justify your answer.
- I'm going to go with 22 out of 25. I rambled on a bit more than I was probably suppose to, and I also probably have some kind of grammar or spelling error in here that I missed.