You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.
-Dr. Seuss

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

MY OPINION ISN'T (A) RIGHT

Notes:

*During class:

-Interdependence: dependent of others and society
-Limbic: part if your brain that governs feelings
-schema: routines or structure we use to make sense of the world

- "Fiction is the lie that tells the truth."

*Before discussion/on my own time:

-inquiry: asking for info.
-legal action: one party vs the other
-delusion: firm impression that is contradicted
-presumptuous: failing to observe limits on what is permitted
-preempt: prevent, to stall
-epistemic:referring to knowledge
-egregious: remarkably good, shocking
-Zionist Conspiracy: controversy between Jews and others about Jerusalem the promise land.

Questions to think about:

-Why can't opinions be respected and simply be left alone?

-"The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights" article 19 states that "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." What is it that the united nations mean by this? How is it similar or different to what the article states?