Friday, January 23, 2015

Blog #1 - Conservative vs. Liberal

Stand in different situation

The lecture and the activity engaged us students to know our position in different situations.  In the activity, students were asked questions that can be answered with yes or no. If the answer is yes, then the student must go to the left side while if the answer is no, the students must be on the right side.  Based on my observation, there are only few students in the room who are considered a liberalists. There are certain situations that may somewhat contradict your position.
There is a saying that in life, not everything is permanent. As time passes by, one’s ideas and opinions are changing. It varies through time and situations in our lives. Our mind is developing as we open our eyes to our environment. You can be liberal when you’re young but when you grow up, you develop to be conservative. It can also happen for you to be a consistent conservative starting from your younger years up to present.
                During my POLISCI subject, when I took the test, the result was that I am a conservative. When we did the activity the result was consistently saying that I am a conservative. Now, I think I still am on the process of finding myself because I know that being a conservative does not really mean that you are a really a straight conservative type of person. It may depend on you. In my opinion, abortion is not right. It is not a solution whenever someone gets pregnant. In the first place, the two people who are having a sexual interaction with each other must be responsible enough for whatever it may result to. There are two ways that one may resort to, one is be in favor of abortion and prefer to do it or the second one is make the child live but in the end figure out how to support the basic needs of the child and teach the good manners and values with the risk of not being able to do so and make the child suffer from a life he does not deserve to live in. Some are making children to sell to others who were not able to have their own child and get money from it and sometimes it is being controlled by a syndicate. Using abortion for saving the life of the mother during pregnancy is also fine since I am not the one who should really decide. The couple who are undergoing this kind of circumstances must be the one to decide because still, who am I to decide in this situation where I am not involved in. If the couple agreed using abortion in order for the mother to live, they should do it.  On the other side of the story, the LGBT community do also have the rights to live. As long as they are not doing bad things. Why would we limit them? We are all people. We all know that every person has his or her own idea, characteristics and way of happiness. We are all unique by being ourselves. The LGBT community is just being true to their own self. They are just making themselves happy and contented. Why would we push them into a person who is just a mask of what they should be and make them unhappy and feel uncomfortable with. There is also a prevailing issue about gay marriage. In my opinion, it is fine with me. Everyone has the right to love and be loved. It is not a sin of a person that he or she loves a person with the same sex. They did not even choose to be like that. As for me, I do not find gender as an issue. It is just an identity of a person. Whether you like it or not, you have to deal with it.
                                                   

                I am a conservative though there is still a part of me that is a liberal. I know that as I search for myself, I can answer all the question and can be really consistent with my position.

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