Mr. Scalice's main focus is to set the point that the world is overall in a bad conscience. Mr. Scalice incorporates countless doings people have put upon themselves to make the world a worst place. He sums his worldview perfectly when he writes "Right and wrong are very real [categories], and our present society is unspeakably in the wrong." I am mostly persuaded because his points come with detailed explanations that completely support his views. He explains the different bads in the world, and makes the readers think what kind of world we live in. For instance, he explains that there are people starving in the world while filthy rich people spend hundreds of dollars on champagne, and the way those two thoughts fuse with each other have the readers thinking how self centered some people are. But, Mr. Scalice puts me in confusion because he is trying to convince us readers that the whole world is in terror and dreadful, and everybody makes the world a terrible place. He does not give exception for the minority of hte public who go out of their way to help those in need, and do what every moral human being with a surplus of money should do.
I believe that the quote from Jose Porfirio Miranda caps off Mr. Scalice's point perfectly. Miranda writes in a simple manner that people are self-centered and push bad instances and doings further and further to the point when killing will be deemed okay. But, I believe that this quote is too over the top: “[We will have] in Sartre's words, ‘the feeling that we have the fundamental right to kill.’" I believe that doing this sets us readers a little out of focus because of its nature, and I do not believe that this will happen.
In summarization, Mr. Scalice's worldview is that we are living in a world of "bad", and people need to try harder to make things right, to care for one another, to help the hungry, to not be so self-centered, and to do what people know is right.
If I was to write an essay on my worldview, my worldview would side and be on the contrary of Mr. Scalice's worldview. He tends to show that human beings are doing bad, and are shaping the world into a destructive place. My worldview would be that most people are "good", but do "bad" things sometimes that shape the world into a worst place. My worldview would state that there are only some filthy rich beings, people who have more than they need, that make the world hopeless in being a great place for everyone to live in because they have much more than human’s basic necessities, and they should give up some their "things" such as money and clothes to those who can barely survive, those who live on the floors of street corners, those who work everyday to make less than a dollar, and those who overall can barely meet the necessities for life. I would also blame the government. In the case of the U.S. government, every year they make it harder and harder to live in the United States, raise taxes, and do not use enough tax money to support those in need. In conclusion to my worldview, many people are spoiled and do not even know it, have ten pairs of shoes when many people out of the United States cannot afford to buy one pair, and I believe that every person with a house and with satisfactory living conditions should find it in the goodness of their hearts to pay at least an extra few dollars a month to help support those in need, so everyone can meet their necessities, and more and more people can start enjoying the beauty and happiness that God brings to Earth.
In my opinion though, there is one and only one reason that the world is turning more and more into a disgusting place: MONEY. Money drives the whole world, makes and breaks people decides if people live on the streets or live in house, and drives people to become selfish, self centered, and greedy. Almost every human done disaster has been feuled by money. If the world should become better, this needs to stop. The lust of money is the center of the world today, the lust for love and politeness should become the center of the world tomorrow. This can be done, as Christopher Reeve once put it, "Nothing is impossible." Everyone has to want the change, and though working and money runs the world, love and joy should drive a person.
Though Mr. Scalice lusts for receiving only the necessities needed to survive, this is virtually impossible, for competition is what also drives the world. Those who work hard succeed, those who do not fail. Only the fittest succeed.
| 2007/07/07 21:11:22 PDT by jscalice |
Dean:
Just thought you might have missed the bit about "I do know the author quite well; he is me." ::chuckle::
The great Mexican theologian and philosopher Jose Porfirio Miranda only wrote the concluding quote - a quote which I took from his work, Ser y el Mesias: el mensaje de la Evangelio de Juan.
J
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it. - KM
| 2007/07/07 23:31:04 PDT by KStav |
Dean:
Just thought you might have missed the bit about "I do know the author quite well; he is me." ::chuckle::
The great Mexican theologian and philosopher Jose Porfirio Miranda only wrote the concluding quote - a quote which I took from his work, Ser y el Mesias: el mensaje de la Evangelio de Juan.
J
Oops!!! Good thing you sent me that. I feel of high stupidity.
| 2007/07/08 07:38:41 PDT by jscalice |
Dean:
Just thought you might have missed the bit about "I do know the author quite well; he is me." ::chuckle::
The great Mexican theologian and philosopher Jose Porfirio Miranda only wrote the concluding quote - a quote which I took from his work, Ser y el Mesias: el mensaje de la Evangelio de Juan.
J
Oops!!! Good thing you sent me that. I feel of high stupidity.
No worries. :)
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it. - KM