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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Equality in Chicagoush

This action project is for my humanities class named, Forbidden Books. The purpose of this project was to use the Socratic method, which is to ask questions to make someone examine their beliefs.

 We were given a subject, in my case I was given equality. For the dialogue we had to have two characters, one that would question and one that would go through the process of examining their beliefs. Before we got to work on the action project, I went around and asked 10 people what they thought of when they heard the word equality. I used this information to write the dialogue. It helped me because I had some opinions to write down for the second person, and it gave me more opinions than only mine. Some people might think the Socratic method is dangerous because asking questions could make people get defensive and want to hurt you, because they feel like they are being interrogated or challenged about their beliefs.








-2. Hey Brandicirus would you like to sign my petition banning women from voting?



1. Why do you feel women should not vote, don’t you think that all people are equal?


-2. No because men and women are biologically different, so no we are not equal. men were made to be better at everything.


1. But making decisions is all about opinion and preference, so don’t you think that making good decisions depends on the specific person and not the gender of the person?


-2. No, because men are made to be more dominant and more intelligent than women, therefore they should make the decisions.


1. How does dominance affect how someone makes decisions. like I said previously making decisions is about opinion and preference.


-2.But people who are dominant always make the decisions, such as the president or people with political power


1. But that does not mean they will always make wise decisions. What proof do you have that women are bad at making decisions, if we have never given women a chance to make decisions. think of it this way, if men are only voting men are going to be the ones in power!


-2. Well, our country is fine the way it is, and that has been because of men making the decisions, so why should there be equality? For example look at our specific city everyone has homes and there is plenty of stuff to eat!


1. You’re just looking at the positive, what about the parts of the country that are in poverty and sickness. Have you ever seen a mother leave her child hungry or sick? don’t you think everyone should have the chance to live well.?

 
-2. Well yes but just because women can make good decisions in their own home, does not mean they can make good decisions for the state


1. Well if they can benefit their own home with their decisions, don’t you think they can make decisions to benefit all the homes in the state. You said men and women are biologically different, you were right when you said that but, what you fail to notice is that women show more compassion. don't you think that compassion will help us in the long run, because women will care more about the country and maybe could help EVERYONE in the country not just our small city!


-2. If you put it that way, I guess women should have the same set of rules and boundaries, and no one should be treated different because of their race or gender *tears petition* thank you for helping me realize this Brandicirus…


1. No problem, i'm glad you came around....

 
 

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