Here are your philosophical thoughts for today:
1. When should a person cooperate?
2. When should a person be selfish?
3. Should you provide favors to another friend who never reciprocates?
4. Is it possible to cooperate without friendship?
5. Under what conditions in a world of egoists (we look out for ourselves) will cooperation emerge?
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1. A person should cooperate whenever possible and whenever their is no harm in doing so.
ReplyDelete2. A person should not be selfish very often. It is important to think of others, but not at the expense of hurting yourself.
3. Yeah, doing little favors here or there for others even if they won't do a favor for you in return says more about you than it does about them.
4. Yes, you can get along with someone and not be thier best friend. Sooperating with someone even if you don't like them or aren't friends with them it part of growing up I think. Eventually we may all have to work wiht somone we dont' like but will have to work together to get "the job" done.
5. I think one must look out for themselves more than others. You must cooperate wiht others, but be smart about it.
P.s. I don't think philiosophy I am too tired to understand and or think at this point.
Danielle
1. I think that a person should cooperate when it will make things better for them and other people. Like the people who are in trouble with the law, they are better off cooperating with the police than they are if they don't cooperate.
ReplyDelete2. Um, I don't think a person should ever be selfish because it is not the right thing to do. I believe in giving to others and not wanting everything for yourself.
3. Depending on the favor, I still think you should help out a friend in need as much as you can. It is the right thing to do, but only help them if it doesn't hurt you in the long-run.
4. Yeah, I am not friends with everyone in this school, and I still get along with everyone just fine. There is always someone who you won't get along with, but it is possible to not be a person's friend and get along with them.
5. Um, I wish I could answer this question but i have absolutely no idea what you are talking about or even asking me. (Danielle says Dido) =)
P.S. I agree with Danielle.
For the last question, let me try to rephrase it.
ReplyDeleteIn this world where almost everyone thinks first about himself/herself, do you think true cooperation will ever happen? (Cooperation where one person doesn't think "What's in it for me if I cooperate?") The type of cooperation where each party wants to other to be successful and doesn't think about its own benefits and advantages if it cooperates.
For example, think about countries. And, actually, the Iraq/Afganistan wars are a prime example. Why are England, Australia, and other countries joined with the U.S. in the fight against terror? Are those other countries doing it just to be "nice" and help us out or are they cooperating because they'll benefit, too?
1. I think a person should allways cooperate unless it will cause harm to others or something.
ReplyDelete2.I don't think a person should be selfish very often. THe only exception i would say is if them being selfish would save them from harm. Never for personal benifit.
3.I believe you should allways help someone out. Unless that's loaning something to someone and they won't give it back, but otherwise always help people out even if its just a one way thing.
4.Yes it is. I think it may be a tad more difficult and sometimes awkward, but i think it is possible. Like if you get stuck in a group with people you don't know and aren't friends with and have a limited time to get things done, you will cooperate with them.
5. I think it depends on the situation if true cooperation will happen. If someone asks you to rob a bank youd question it and real cooperation probably wouldn't happen, but if its life and death and your put on the spot id say it might. Like if you were on a plane sinking into the ocean and it was up to you and another person to help get an innoccent baby out of the plane before it gets bombarded by water i think you instincts would kick in and youd do whats right. I think that is true cooperation!
I think the world would be very different (for the better) if everyone cooperated. If people cooperated constantly they would skip a lot of conflicts that go on today. There would be less time wasted on resolving conflicts and more time spent improving the world. However, not cooperating and being selfish gives everyone their own character and life would be pretty flat and bland without it all.
ReplyDelete1. I think that people should try to always cooperate because then we would all win. Also, I think that a lot of people would be happier if they cooperated more!
ReplyDelete2. I don't think a person should be selfish. I agree that you should only be selfish to save yourself from harm because that's different than being selfish to gain something that you don't really need.
3. I think you should to an extent. I wouldn't go way out of my way for someone who was never there for me, but as long as I could I would do a favor for them.
4. Yes, as long as you can negotiate and learn to meet in the middle. I think you have to be mature to do this.
5. I still don't really understand, but I think that most countries only do things to benefit themselves. So do most people.
I know that this doesn't have anything to do with the blog today, but I thought that I would share this e-mail. An old man in a nursing home wrote it. After reading the poem, it really made me think.
ReplyDeleteRead it, its really good.
When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in North Platte , Nebraska , it was believed that he had nothing left of any value.
Later, when the nurses were going through his meager possessions,
they found this poem. Its quality and content so impressed the
staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital. One nurse took her copy to Missouri .
The old man's sole bequest to posterity has since appeared in
the Christmas edition of the News Magazine of the St. Louis Association for Mental Health. A slide presentation has also been
made based on his simple, but eloquent, poem.
And this little old man, with nothing left to give to the world,
is now the author of this 'anonymous' poem winging across the Internet.
Crabby Old Man
What do you see nurses? . . . .. . What do you see?
What are you thinking . . . . . When you're looking at me?
A crabby old man . . . . . Not very wise,
Uncertain of habit . . . . . With faraway eyes?
Who dribbles his food . . . . . And makes no reply.
When you say in a loud voice . . . . . 'I do wish you'd try!'
Who seems not to notice . . . . . The things that you do.
And forever is losing . . . . . A sock or shoe?
Who, resisting or not . . . . . Lets you do as you will,
With bathing and feeding . . . . . The long day to fill?
Is that what you're thinking? . . . . . Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse . . . . . You're not looking at me.
I'll tell you who I am. . . . . . As I sit here so still,
As I do at your bidding, . . . . . As I eat at your will.
I'm a small child of Ten . . . . . With a father and mother,
Brothers and sisters . . . . . Who love one another.
A young boy of Sixteen . . . . With wings on his feet.
Dreaming that soon now . . . . . A lover he'll meet.
A groom soon at Twenty . . .. . . My heart gives a leap.
Remembering, the vows . . . . . That I promised to keep.
At Twenty-Five, now . . . . . I have young of my own.
Who need me to guide . . . . . And a secure happy home.
A man of Thirty . . . . . My young now grown fast,
Bound to each other . . . . . With ties that should last.
At Forty, my young sons . . . . . Have grown and are gone,
But my woman's beside me . . .. . . To see I don't mourn.
At Fifty, once more, babies play 'round my knee,
Again, we know children . . . . . My loved one and me.
Dark days are upon me . . . . . My wife is now dead.
I look at the future . . . . . Shudder with dread.
For my young are all rearing . . . . . Young of their own.
And I think of the years . . . . . And the love that I've known.
I'm now an old man . . . . . And nature is cruel.
Tis jest to make old age . . . .. . Look like a fool.
The body, it crumbles . . . . . Grace and vigor, depart.
There is now a stone . .. . . Where I once had a heart.
But inside this old carcass . . . . . A young guy still dwells,
And now and again . . . . . My battered heart swells.
I remember the joys . . . . . I remember the pain.
And I'm loving and living . . . . . Life over again.
I think of the years, all too few . . . . . Gone too fast.
And accept the stark fact . . . . That nothing can last.
So open your eyes, people . . . . . Open and see.
Not a crabby old man . . . Look closer . . . See ME!!
1. A person should cooperate whenever possible. It generally makes everything easier when people cooperate. The only time people shouldn't is when they know it will hurt them or others, of if it's against their beliefs or values. As always, however, there are exceptions. Like the Haans story.
ReplyDelete2. A person should try to never be selfish. People who are helpful and giving toward others are nice!
3. A person should help a friend whenever possible. Even if the person doesn't do anything in return, it follows the rule "Do unto others as though you were the others."
4. Yes, I think it's possible. you don't have to be besties to agree on something, but it would probably make it easier if you were friends.
5. Well, we already have cooperation in our lives, and sometimes it's for our own good, sometimes it isn't. I can think of a small example of cooperation for the good of others and that is the chain for Haiti that is hanging in our school. Nobody is gaining anything from creating a link, but we all did it anyway!
I like Rachael's poem, by the way :)
1. Cooperation among people should be at all times. It does make things easier.
ReplyDelete2. People should not be selfish. They should be happy with things that they have that are "heart" value and not "money" value.
3. People should always help each other out, even if they do not get it in return. It may be very difficult to get over it, but you should.
4. Cooperation can be done without friendship, but everyone should try to work things out with each other. It helps things go easier.
5. We should think about ourselves before we think about others, especially if we are in trouble.