Look in the Mirror

We all want to judge the morality of others actions, whether it is Angela, or the girl and her boyfriend or even the people with the phones. I do not believe that none of us have done something that we do not want any one else to know about, and maybe your logic here would be "yes, I have, but it was not that bad". According to this logic, we seem to have a scale of "wrongness" and after a certain level we feel people should be punished. The problem is that we tend to turn a blind eye when it is a friend or ourselves on trial. So what makes us capable of judging the rightness or wrongness of another's action. If we consider ourselves morally superior then we can't bring ourselves down to the level of the criminal just to punish them. It sends the wrong message to make something a crime when one person does it and "just" when another does it. We all have these double standards in our life. We just have to make sure we aren't used these double standards to provide justice in a country.

Catfish Rewind

Gary Turk, a poet wrote the poem, "Look Up", one of my favorite pieces of poetry and an excerpt of which he says:


All this technology we have it’s just an illusion
Community, companionship, a sense of inclusion
When you step away from this device of delusion
You awaken to see a world of confusion


A world where we’re slaves to the technology we mastered
Where information gets sold by some rich, greedy bastard
A world of self-interest, self-image, self-promotion
Where we all share our best bits but leave out the emotion


We’re at our most happy with an experience we share
But is it the same if no one is there?
Be there for your friends and they’ll be there too
But no one will be if a group message will do


We edit and exaggerate, crave adulation
We pretend not to notice the social isolation
We put our words into order till our lives are glistening
We don’t even know if anyone is listening.


So, although the majority of the class seems to despise Angela in the movie Catfish, has anyone stopped and considered the possibility that maybe they are a catfish themselves?
If no, then you are stating that you have never once fabricated any detail on social media and that you are exactly the person you are in person than onscreen. You are also stating that you have never filtered, posed and exaggerated your emotion, appearance or opinions in ways not possible in person.

Heaven or Hell

Last Friday in class we kind of touched on the subject of police justice and justice in the sense of when average people (i.e., not the ones trained or paid to do) put justice in their own hands. Don't worry I am not here to talk about the police brutality incidents that have been in the mass media, because they bring forth a lot of controversy. Perhaps I will like to discuss a situation that happened to me personally. As mentioned as a side-note in class, my uncle is in prison awaiting trial for a crime they cant find specific evidence of him committing and one honestly the police couldn't find a better candidate for other than a man on parole with a felony on his record. When visiting him, we are in a confined, police and camera operating room with many other families, unlike the traditional ones on TV that are through a plexi-glass window. During our visit however a mother was seen handing an unapproved object under the table to the prisoner and that's when all havoc broke loose. The guards get up and chase the man around the room and after multiple, failed attempts to catch him, they bring out a special mace that was extremely potent and harmful to all in contact with it. The families including a family with a mother and a new-born infant were in the range of the firing of the mace and the yelled at the elderly mother as well as her prisoner son near me to stop screaming when her oxygen tank was failing to keep fresh oxygen in her lungs because of the toxic air. In all this chaos the police eventually catch the convict and start beating him mindlessly. In front of me, my nephew, and many other young people who shouldn't see that in type of violence in person and in such harsh conditions. Plus, getting a sense of how harmful the spray was, everyone had to stay behind and get medical evaluations because they couldn't let anyone leave the facility in a worse condition than they came in. What astonished me, was as all the prisoners were being dragged away, they weren't given saline to wash out their eyes like we did, they weren't medically evaluated, instead they were forced to the ground some of which the mace spray had dripped on and have been conditioned to just be okay with such treatment. My question to you, my classmates, is that when you envision prison, do you see it as a privilege (i.e., three free meals a day, TV, exercise) or as legal human torture (i.e., keeping them in animalistic conditions)?

Is Justice really being served?

In class, this week, we watched a short film in which a woman is being punished for a terrible crime she assisted in committing. While one would think that the punishment would simply be being put in a prison, her punishment was something entirely different. She was placed in a fictional correctional facility, White Bear. It was here that she was tortured. This torture was conducted to instill the same sense of fear that the little six year old girl felt when she was kidnapped, rapped, assaulted, and later murdered by the fiancé  of the woman while the woman herself videotaped the whole thing. The people felt that they were serving justice by torturing this woman. But is justice really being served when for most of the time the torture is being performed the woman can not recall why she is there? They erase her memory at the end of everyday, shortly after telling her who she is and why she is  there, making her endure the same thing day after day. I can understand that by doing it this way they are making her go through everything the little girl went through when she was first kidnapped and had no idea where she was. But is justice being served when you are punishing someone who committed a violent and horrendous crime in a violent manner? Does that make the people any better than she or even the fiancé were? I really don't think that it does. I'm not saying that what she did do was not something awful. I agree with the fact that what she did was down right wrong and terrible. However, I do not think that by torturing her in a similar manner will make the crime she committed any better or make it go away. What she did will always remain. And by torturing her, just to make her feel what the little girl felt would not make us as people any better. We are basically stooping down to her level, because in a way we are doing the same thing she did, just not to a little girl but a grown adult. It won't bring the little girl back to her family or erase her last moments. However, the reaction of the people may leave a lasting effect on the future of the justice system. What happens when the little kids watching the torture of this woman because they are told justice is being served think that the only way to right any wrong in the world is simply by violence? Are we then saying it is okay to fight violence with violence? Therefore, I would say I do not agree with the answer this fictional correctional facility came up with when attempting to serve justice for such a horrendous crime. I would simply say stay to the old method and send her to prison and let them dwell on the reason why she is there. But at the end of the day is it really up to us to decide how to best punish individuals for crimes. What makes us capable of even doing that?

Justice Is Served?

In the film we watched this week, a woman who had filmed her boyfriend's cruelty as he kidnapped, raped, burned, and killed a young African American girl, is punished at a "justice park." Because of the horrific crime she and her boyfriend committed, her memory is erased and then she is tortured psychologically every day. Many people record her as she is chased by "killers" and people she believes want to harm her. However, I do not think this treatment would work if actually implemented into society. As someone mentioned during class today, and, as I also believe, it is not our job to gain revenge or justice for an act committed. We should instead leave this up to God. He will punish people as He sees fit, although the death penalty is permissible according to the Bible. One may say that putting someone in jail is an act of humans seeking justice, but I also believe that it helps to protect the population as a whole. A person may be put in jail to prevent them from committing more crimes and harming others, but the crime they are in jail for is not serious enough to warrant the death penalty. Some believe that the death penalty is "too easy," and that a person escapes justice by dying. In the movie, the people were outraged that the woman's fiancé hung himself before he went to trial and was able to be properly punished for his heinous crime. However, I believe that he because he did not know God (evident by his actions), he will spend an eternity suffering in hell, which is punishment enough.

White Bear

So... I didn't really like the short film 'White Bear' because of the way that it showed enjoyment in watching the torturing of a woman, despite her being a criminal.  We have tried to define 'justice' all this semester and I just do not believe what was demonstrated in 'White Bear' as justice, but instead a crime in itself.  We talked about UFC and fighting some in class today and it got me thinking about whether that was right or wrong and how it related to this conversation.  I do not find UFC wrong, it is just a sport like any other, just more physical.  The competitors are individual athletes that train for each event.

That being said, it is completely different than the situation in 'White Bear'.  Even if everyone is watching and recording the criminal just like in UFC, she is being tortured.  She is being tortured in the most awful way, mentally.  She is not prepared for that and it is not a fair punishment.  The fact that people are watching this in a park made specifically for their enjoyment of spectating torture is sickening.  UFC fans are watching athletes compete in a fair competition, not just watching as if they are gladiators fighting to the death.

Now I certainly agree that the criminal in the case of 'White Bear' needs to be punished and removed from society.  What she did was awful, but everyone is meant to be forgiven.  We, as citizens, are supposed to look at the good in everyone despite their past.  What she did warrants punishment, which I would say is being in prison away from society.  She does not deserve to be continually tortured month after month, I would say that would be criminalizing to society.  Would we not all be criminals if we just sat watching and recording this girl while she is being tortured?  This would not be teaching the criminal anything; by torturing this girl we would be, in essence, confirming her idea that violence is okay.  Violence in this aspect is definitely not okay and the last thing that we should do is abuse her like she abused that child.

Injustice at its finest

    White bear correctional facility is a fictional correctional facility that we saw a glimpse of during class this week. Let me rephrase that, it’s a madhouse of torture and bad influences on all of creation. This madhouse takes justice into its own hands by torturing one woman because she committed a horrendous crime. Yes, she did commit a terrible crime. According to the video, she taped and documented her boyfriend committing rape, assault, and the murder of a little girl. We do not know the situation that well though. What if she had been held at gunpoint to do this? Yes she supposedly hid the girl from the cops, but we do not know what kind of coercion she was under. What if her boyfriend was going to beat her if she didn’t do all of this? This facility made it so that her memory was erased, and she would live the same torture over and over again by simulating the exact same thing that she made the girl go though. Is this not stooping all of these people down to the exact same level as this woman though. Who are we to say that we can commit these crimes without being punished because that is exactly what is happening. Those people who work at white bear are committing crimes against her, yet they are not being punished for them. Yes it is for the sake of punishing her, but it is still wrong. Also, people are paying to watch this, and they are bringing their children too. This is desensitizing humanity even more than we already do. This woman should be punished by going to prison. Living the same thing over and over again without knowing why until the end gets nothing accomplished in my opinion. This is an unjust institution in my opinion.

                                    White Bear justice park

  

   White Bear, um watching this had me going in different directions. What I did like about this show, no, no, no, I meant this movie, no skit, no I mean.... well I really don't know what I should call it because it was about," Doing unto others as you would have them to do unto you!' and was this that case? I do understand that if you commit a crime you should be punish for it. My thoughts for the little girl and her family I said yes to the torture, but my thoughts changed towards the end of the torture. I started to feel some kind of way because I realized that she was still an existing human being so I am still asking myself where is the justice in the thought of torturing a person over and over and over again. This is how the story goes ok there was this couple who had to be completely insane. Based on this hideous crime they committed, I do mean hideous. The coupled kidnapped and allegedly abused, raped, killed, burned and other heinous acts to a 7 year old little bitty girl. A group of other psycho's thought up of a  dilemma  to start a institutional Theme Park called White Bear where people can actually pay money out of their pockets to see criminals being torture for fun or entertainment. My guessing is that our government had to agree with this  because it was a business. How they probably would punish the criminal would be based upon their crime. Only one of the criminal was punished because  the other one took his own life before the sentencing. At this Theme Park they group would stage the scenery and set it up then they would take away her (the criminal)  memory of the crime she had committed and make her re-live a torturous life over and over again. The group (weird people) displayed her as if she was a captured  alien out of space . After they would torture her the people would strap her down in a gas chamber chair, allow an audience of citizens to watch the entire time, from the beginning to the end, then the host of this weird show would come forward with everyone who was involve and humilate her to a degree, then they would take her back to the place she committed the crime just to start all over again. These people (the weird people) would shock her brain so that she would forget and wake up each day not knowing where she was or who she is.

     I think that not knowing the fullness of a story can cloud your judgment towards others, sometimes it best to know more about the situation before you decide on how to go by punishing a person. The way the system works; there are misdemeanors which are considered a minor wrongdoing, then there is manslaughter a legal term for the killing of a human being, in a manner considered by law as less culpable than murder. We got first degree murder in which is both willful and premeditated mean that it was committed after planning or "lying in wait' for the victim. There is second degree murder defined as an intentional killing that is not premeditated or planned, nor committed in a reasonable "heat of passion" and so on. Last but not least there is Capital Murder which carries the death penalty. If this was really a real story then what does that say about us, the people, the government, or the world. I would like to know, Did she have a proper trial? Who was her attorney? What kind of background did she come from? Did she get the mental evaluation that she has the right to? Remember justices motto is...Innocent until proven guilty! Did law work for her or against?
  In my closing I say to the people stick with jailing criminal and I do know that jail has protected custody.

White Bear

This week in class we talked about personal identity as well as watching a film called White Bear.  I the film, a women wakes up one day and has no idea who she is or where she is.  When trying to find help, she notices people recording her on their cell phones.  She then starts getting chased and attacked by people with guns and knives trying to kill her.  At the end of the movie, she finds herself in front of and audience and she learns who she really is.  Earlier in her life she and her fiance abducted a six year old girl, tortured her, raped her, and killed her.  While doing all this, the woman videotaped the whole thing on her cell phone.  Her punishment was to come to the "White Bear Justice Park" where they erased her memory and everyday she lives through the same events, ending with learning who she really is and being tortured.  The society she lives in is providing entertainment through her misery and punishment.  The question arose as to if this is a morally acceptable form of punishment for this awful crime.  I do believe that the two who committed the crime should be punished, and I would like to see them suffer also, but I'm not too sure if this is the appropriate way to go about it.  The death sentence or life in prison seems like too easy of a punishment for the severity of the crime, but I don't think erasing her memory if the right way to punish her.  I think she should have to live everyday knowing and remembering what she did as well as suffering in other ways.  The "White Bear Justice Park" just seems a little unrealistic in my opinion.

Justice Park Punishment

On Wednesday, we watched a short film about a felon being psychologically tortured for her crimes. I believe the punishment was justified because of the pain and terror inflicted on the young victim. The continuous repeating of the punishment is necessary, in my opinion, to re-enforce to the victim what she did. The film is based on a true story and I believe that if the atrocious incident were to happen again, most people would be in favor of the Justice Park. Capital punishment or a life sentence could not do enough justice for what the little girl went through. Besides, most of the punishment on the felon was psychological, so it wasn't a physical onslaught on her. The whole entertainment concept behind the Justice park idea is brilliant. The park serves the double purpose of discouraging future criminals to do the same or equally-brutal crimes. I believe many would-be felons would look at what happens to felons at the park and think otherwise about going through with their crime. Many may think that the felon was being brain-washed by her fiancé, but I believe she was an evil human being to begin with. No matter how someone tries to justify it, there must be some evil quality in her inner psyche that allowed her to be an accessory to the crime.

Catfish - The Ultimate Identity Theft

This is to make up the discussion on the Catfish documentary last Friday, April 17th due to being out of town for tennis.

I was absolutely disgusted with the documentary Catfish.  Angela lied to Nev to the extent that should be punishable by law.  She impersonated 15 people by making fictional accounts on Facebook.  Then, she pretended to be these different people - even communicating with Nev as each different person.  The most disgusting thing out of all of it is how she led Nev on to believe he was in love with someone that was actually fictional.  She was extremely selfish, doing all of this because she didn't like the life that she was trapped in; she decided to make a new fictional life for herself and didn't have any regard for the emotions of other people.  I personally think that Angela is a terrible person and if I were Nev, I would have reacted completely different upon their face to face meeting.  She even kept lying to Nev once they met face to face.  I think it is safe to say, by observing Angela when Nev meets her and by all of the crazy things that she created, that Angela is at least somewhat insane.  I think that she needs to get help.  She undoubtedly has a tough life, taking care of two special needs kids and her daughter, but a lot of people live tough lives.  That alone is no excuse for what she did to Nev.  Angela should give writing fictional books a shot; at least then she wouldn't be taking advantage of other's personal feelings.

Angela's dilemma

After watching the Catfish documentary, I can see that some of Angela's story was a situation that snowballed out of her control. I do think she set out to deceive and lie, but in many ways, she backed herself into a corner and things just kept getting worse and worse for her. I don't believe she thought she would get caught ! This reminds me in some way of Gages ring. So, Angela believed she did not have to be just or tell the truth because she didn't think she would get caught. She did though, and was forced to admit what she did wrong. Even though she may have behaved the way she did for many different reasons, she did know that what she did was wrong. I believe she would have never admitted what she did if she had not been caught. This is true for many of us, we would never admit to things we did wrong if we were not caught and forced to admit what we did.

Catfish, the sad story

The film Catfish was interesting for the techniques that were used to found out if the people was lying about his or her identity; even though at the end of the film Nev did not do anything to Angelia for her wrong doing. Would that mean that Nev did not think that she should be punished or if there is nothing wrong with what Angelia did to he? In class everyone would agree on the fact that what Angelia did was wrong and especially weird to start with. It was wrong in the sense that  she treated Nev to believe that Angelia was an nineteen year old girl, Meg, that liked his and want to be with him, instead of Angelia, a forty year old mother. Angelia did not lie of Meg and Abby being her daughters, but she did lie about Meg being the person that Nev thought she was and Abby being able to paint the painting that was given to Nev. Angelia made all of this different identities to, in a way, live like she did in the past when she had more opportunities for having she dreaming coming true; which was one of the reasons that she may have started to make all of the identities, to get the live back that she lost. It may not seem bad to live the old live, but in reality she did put herself into the life that she had in the film. There is not really a reason to say that this was morally right or okay, to say the less. She did at the end upset Nev that the low quality prints were not from a girl and that his true love was just a mother that was unsatisfied with her own live. She deceived him to satisfied herself with the sad live she has.  

Catfish right or wrong?

This week in class we watched the movie catfish. The movie has to do with a woman, named Angelia, who made up several other identities that were not actually her and convince a man named Nev that the identities were real. Nev received a painting of one of the photographs that he had taken in the mail from a little girl, named Abby. He also got caught up in a romantic relationship with a girl named Megan who was Abby’s older sister. After a while Nev became wise to what was happening and found out that Angelia was making up the entire situation. The question was asked in class whether Angelia’s actions were morally right or wrong. I believe that what Angelia did was morally wrong. She was constantly lying to Nev and was withholding the entire situation from her husband. The situation did bring good for everyone. Angelia grew in the fact that she was an honest enough person that she admitted that she did lie and she made up the entire story. Nev also was able to grow through the situation by forgiving her for what she had done and he was also able to make a lot of money from the movie he made and also the tv show he stars in. However, even though there were many good results that were brought by what happened I still believe that it was a morally wrong thing to do. By the first categorical imperative you are unable to will the maxim of her lies as a universal law. Therefore that immediately causes the entire situation to be morally wrong. Angelia also was having romantic feelings with Nev which is morally wrong because she is already married to her husband and she made a promise to always love him and only him and by having romantic feelings for Nev she was cheating on her husband. This is why I feel that the entire situation was morally wrong.

Web of Deception

"Catfish" is about a young New Yorker named Nev who fell in love on Facebook with the "girl of his dreams."  However, this dream quickly became a nightmare for Nev because he fell into a giant web of lies.  It all started when he was contacted by Abby, a 8 year old artist who wanted permission to paint a photograph of his that she saw in the newspaper.  He of course agreed and was pleased with the finished product. Soon after, he began talking to Abby's mother Angela and became particularly friendly with Angela's older daughter, Megan.  Nev and Megan began talking all the time both on facebook and through constant texts and phone calls.  He quickly fell for Megan, as they discovered how much they had in common.  They were both photographers, and Megan was a singer and would post original songs by her and her mother on facebook- or so he thought.  Nev asked her to sing "Tennessee Stud" by Johnny Cash and within 30 minutes she sent him her version of it. It was good, too good. Nev and his friends looked up covers of the same song to compare her amazing version to other professionals.  It turns out that they found the exact version of the song on YouTube that Megan claimed to be hers.  Even worse, they looked up other songs that she had previously posted, and they were directly from other artists. "Tennessee Stud" had indeed been the big reveal of an even bigger web of deception.  The realization that this 7 month relationship was a complete sham was devastating, but he and his friends were determined to get to the bottom of it. They visited Megan's home and met Angela who looked very different than her Facebook photos.  Abby was real, however she wasn't the talented artist, Angela was the artist.  After an awkward day of still trying to keep her cover and lying, Angela (who is middle aged and married) finally admitted that she had been behind the whole hoax. She was pretending to be Megan the whole time, and had created over 15 fake facebook profiles all trying to maintain Megan's fake image.  All photos and songs were stolen and essentially everything was a lie. This is in no way justifiable, and I feel no pity for this women or people like this.  It is sick and incredibly twisted.

"Catfish" or Cod

This week we watched the Documentary “Catfish” following Nev and his pen pal, Abby, relationship.  Nev is a photographer and his photographs are being painted and sent to him.  Abby, an 8 year old is apparently the artist.  Nev begins a pen pal relationship with her and becomes friends with her family.  He finds out that Abby has an older sister Meg and she is very attractive.  Nev and Meg start to talk a lot and they are in a long distance virtual relationship.  Nev starts to have doubts when he finds out that she isn’t actually singing in these videos she is sending to him, so he investigates into the family more.  He is astonished to see that this whole relationship is fake and he assumes the mother Angela is acting as Megan, so he goes to Michigan to confront the family.  There, he see’s the mother doesn’t look like her picture and he eventually learns all about the betrayal and Angela’s deception.

Angela was a pathological liar.  She craved sympathy and tried to make it seem like her actions were okay when she told about her past to Nev.  She says that she just settled for her life and always wanted something more; and with this alter ego, she was able to forget about her tough life and pretend her life is better than it is.  Nev was a very big person for forgiving her so easily.  I think someone is psychotic if they pretend they are someone they aren’t and then lie, not only before they get caught, but after they get caught, to the person’s face.  I do feel a little for Angela, her life is difficult, she has severely mentally ill stepsons, that she has to take care of, but nothing can be an excuse for her wrong ways.  She loves art and it’s her escape from her tough life.  I still think that Angela is wrong in every way, and I don’t think she feels bad for her actions either.  I’m proud of Nev for handling the situation like he did, because if it was me I would have sued or punched her.  Finally, Angela’s lesser-minded husband, Vince, tells of the story of cod being shipped to Japan and how they would be soggy and gross when they got there.  The fishermen would put catfish in the tanks to nip the cod in the tails, so they wouldn’t be lazy and they would be fit.  The world is like this story; the world would be boring if we didn’t have catfish that would nip at our fins.  Angela is like a catfish, which nipped at Nev’s fins.

Catfish Dilemma

During class on Monday and Wednesday we watched the original movie of how the MTV series "Catfish" came to be. The host of the tv series, Nev, was indeed "catfished" himself. To be catfished is to fall in love or fall for someone whom you've met via the internet. Usually when falling for someone online there is no formal meetings--communication is restricted to social media, texting, or speaking over the phone without physically seeing or meeting the other. This obviously poses many problems and room for lies, which is what we saw in the movie.

We see that Nev is betrayed by Angela. Angela pretends to be someone she is not. She used social media as a means to escape her hard life. Angela makes a lot of sacrifices for her husband and his two mentally challenged sons. She doesn't live the life she dreamed of or wanted for herself. I feel sympathy for Angela but I still do not stand by her and what she did to Nev. She told lie after lie to Nev and actually fell for him and made Nev fall for her. Ultimately it is not fair to mess with someone's emotions. If you really want someone to fall in love with you or fall for you the better way to have them do it is for them to fall in love for who you truly are.

This is the problem with social media today. People like to pretend they are who they aren't. People create fake profiles and use images that circulate the internet and make others who don't really know them, believe a personality that the person sitting in front of the computer is not. The internet is very deceiving and full of lies and those being catfished are extremely vulnerable. By knowing what social media can do and knowing what kinds of things can be accomplished through the internet, people should be more aware of what they are doing or who they are talking to. I honestly don't think falling in love through the internet is a means of falling in love--those who say they are in love are desperate. When you really fall in love you fall for that person's touch, voice, presence, and for the things they do for you. Actions speak much louder than words and so often people need to "hear" words of reassurance that they are beautiful or that they are something they strive to be. Everyone just yearns to be WANTED.

I don't think it's a bad thing to want for yourself, but you have to be careful who you get it from or you'll end up like Nev and so many other people: catfished. Yes I sympathize and pity Angela but that does not justify what she did. What she did was wrong; she lied to someone because it made her feel good about herself. It made her feel like for a moment she wasn't living the life she is living, which in turn is a lie to herself! Catfish is based on many lies and those who are catfishing others need to find their purpose in life because it's not fair for them to create a world that invites vulnerable people in, and crushes their ideals of love.

Sartre on Freedom and Choice

This is to make-up the symposium missed on Friday, April 10th for a tennis match.

Sartre is the most interesting philosopher to me that we have read about so far this semester. While I disagree with his beliefs of atheism, I rather like some of the things that he says about freedom and choice. Sartre says that we ARE the choices that we make. He says we can’t not choose, in a sense. That if we decide in a situation not to choose then that in actuality is our choice! He says that if we are faced with a problem that has inevitable circumstances that we will still choose how we act in said situation. This is a very interesting thought to me as I think about decisions that I make. We are free human beings and we can make whatever choices we want in any given situation. Life in itself is really just a long catalog of all the choices that we make. 

Another concept that Sartre brings forward is that just as we are free, we are continually changing. For instance a ‘coward’ is simply a person that is acting cowardly at a given time. Each choice or action that we take defines who we are so we are all subject to change. If we commit a brave action, then suddenly we are ‘brave’. This is true freedom in my opinion. Everyone is free; everyone can make choices and decide who they want to be in any given situation. “We have the power of transforming ourselves indefinitely.”

Nietzsche and Individualism

This is to make-up the symposium on Wednesday, April 8th for a tennis match.

Nietzsche liked to refer to people who shared a mass psychology as “the rabble”. He favored the idea of individualism instead. Nietzsche believed that society would be unhappy if they followed one moral system and instead believes that people should decide for themselves what is right or wrong, being their own moral compass.
My argument is that some people are inherently leaders or followers. By Nietzsche’s philosophy, if everyone chose their own moral beliefs, then it would fail because leaders would gain followers and ultimately society would be divided. The people’s will to gain power would cause them to take control of others lives once again as with many other failed societies in the past. This is how we end up with regimes like the one that Adolf Hitler undertook.
There is too much drive for power if everyone has his or her own morals. Eventually someone would rise up. Instead, society should be based on equality. If it were based on equality then people would be numbed to the will for power and would focus on making other people happy, thus making themselves happy in the process.