"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

-Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

Monday, November 16, 2009

i have kno clue what i am doing

um Dr. p is today's homework not up yet.but a comment about today's class is if u have a attention to do something and not do it its OK because there is no way of anyone ever finding out what Ur real attentions are unless they are you or you itself say these were my intentions so there for intentions don't really mater in determining the innocents of someone. just because something isn't Ur fault like the example in class about the axe you still made that axe fling of and hit that person so i think u should be blamed for everything that you physically do. the only way i could see this not work if someone had a gun to Ur head and said drive over that person of course most people will do what the guy with the guy says.

3 comments:

  1. I think that just because intentions are hard to determine it doesn't mean that they don't matter. I think that while people should definetly be held responsible for their actions, some casses where a person was not intending to hurt anyone, and there was no possible way to forsee any danger, then they should not be held accountable. For example if, I kid finds a penny on the side walk and picks it up, and then puts it in his pocket, but there is a hole in his pocket so the penny falls out and rolls into the street, and then ten minutes later a man drives by in his car and runs over the penny, and the penny gets flung at an old lady in a cross-walk, and the penny goes through her eye socket into her brain and kills her instantly, can anyone really be blamed for such a crazy, terribly unlucky, situation?

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  2. I agree with these two comments as well. Intentions do always matter because they are the motive for an action. Sometimes, intentions can be negative and sometimes positive. I feel that when regarding an actions to take a person should rather do what's morally right rather than do whats intentional. But this is not what people do.

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