Thursday, March 18, 2010

Deliberation of America




This week in socialogy class we had a debate about a conflict that continues today. I'm talking about the gay/straight marriage. As we where spread apart into groups we had been put into the pro side or the con side of this debate. We would read about this debate and gather information that would soon be used to deliberate. I was chosen to be on the con side, moreover i was against gay marriage. Many points where brought up and so some of our values where also tested. This was a test to see which values are more important then others. For instance, this debliberation goes into conflict with values such as freedom and change because one group of people want the freedom to marry anyone, while change is not being used to fix the problem because another group of people believe it to be against their beliefs. This is a great example of ethnocentrism, which means to judge ones beliefs,morals and actions based on ones own beliefs and morals. All in all this is a deliberation that is made for the public to decide on because for a class such as our own and the limited resources presented we would have not been able to accurately make a decisien.

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