Little background:
Teacher: Ex army, spent 3 years over in Germany in the late 80s. Pretty good teacher, like him.
Non-named-student/ex-girlfriend: Went out with for a little while, fun times and yeah, never really thought she was the smartest person in the world, she is a little....well......stupid some....most of the time. Me and her are still great friends by the way. She thinks she deserves special treatment, stuff like that, shes very innocent and naive, great person, though her outlook on the world is rather twisted. She kinda imagines the world as pink with a bunch of teddy bears, at least thats the opinion I get. Lets just say she is a very confused, rather emo(she says unique, NO COMMENTS ABOUT EMO'S), thinks everything is simple kind of person. Anyways.....
Me: Go look for me in the describe yourself thread, Im to lazy to go get my post.
Story:
Today in my History/Social Studies/Geography class we were talking about the war of 1812 and the "War Hawks" who were campaigning for a war against Britain in the few years up to that(we have been talking about this subject for the past few months). My teacher asked us, the class, what do WE think a valid reason for war is, I didnt answer, I dont answer political questions, I dont push my opinions or even waste my breath on telling them, last time I did it all turned into a shouting match with me and 2 other kids vs. the class. Anyways the NNS(non-named-student) raises her hand and yells out "NOTHING!!!!". We then precede to talk about politics and then it went to the war in Iraq, which I started laughing for awhile, the amount of ill informed people was amazing, they were speaking of stuff which would be spread around on a email chain letter. It was just comical......
Then the NNS breaks in, saying that what is the point of going to war over WMD's and stuff, I mean if we never started war there wouldnt be any WMD's. Then she made the comment of, we should just out law war, disband our military, and give in to what other countries want, that way they will be happy and disband their military(no lies, that is almost a direct quote). Amazingly, most of the class agreed with this. The teacher then told us to "shut the hell up" and he moved on to another subject.
1.) Do you think this is a large majority of the populations that makes extremely ill informed and ill thought out decisions? Such as discarding 1000's of years of human history, the most basic ideas of how the world works, etc?
2.) Being 15, I know that it seems that people always try to follow the crowd. People never really think for themselves, someone that they think is better then them says something(it can be a celebrity, a more popular person, anything). Do you agree with this?
3.) Do you think that this will cause a demise in achievement made by us, the human race, or do you think this has always been happening and we just hadn't noticed it.?
*More will be added as I think of them.*
PS. I do not think war is a good thing, it is the horrible and one of the worst practices of man kind, I personally think that war is a last resort option, after politics have failed.
Warning: If someone makes a serious comment that goes along the lines of "stupid AMERICANS", you fall in with number 1. This happens all over the world.
Warning #2: If this turns into a Iraq war thread, I will ask a mod to either clean it up and watch it, or close it.
Teacher: Ex army, spent 3 years over in Germany in the late 80s. Pretty good teacher, like him.
Non-named-student/ex-girlfriend: Went out with for a little while, fun times and yeah, never really thought she was the smartest person in the world, she is a little....well......stupid some....most of the time. Me and her are still great friends by the way. She thinks she deserves special treatment, stuff like that, shes very innocent and naive, great person, though her outlook on the world is rather twisted. She kinda imagines the world as pink with a bunch of teddy bears, at least thats the opinion I get. Lets just say she is a very confused, rather emo(she says unique, NO COMMENTS ABOUT EMO'S), thinks everything is simple kind of person. Anyways.....
Me: Go look for me in the describe yourself thread, Im to lazy to go get my post.
Story:
Today in my History/Social Studies/Geography class we were talking about the war of 1812 and the "War Hawks" who were campaigning for a war against Britain in the few years up to that(we have been talking about this subject for the past few months). My teacher asked us, the class, what do WE think a valid reason for war is, I didnt answer, I dont answer political questions, I dont push my opinions or even waste my breath on telling them, last time I did it all turned into a shouting match with me and 2 other kids vs. the class. Anyways the NNS(non-named-student) raises her hand and yells out "NOTHING!!!!". We then precede to talk about politics and then it went to the war in Iraq, which I started laughing for awhile, the amount of ill informed people was amazing, they were speaking of stuff which would be spread around on a email chain letter. It was just comical......
Then the NNS breaks in, saying that what is the point of going to war over WMD's and stuff, I mean if we never started war there wouldnt be any WMD's. Then she made the comment of, we should just out law war, disband our military, and give in to what other countries want, that way they will be happy and disband their military(no lies, that is almost a direct quote). Amazingly, most of the class agreed with this. The teacher then told us to "shut the hell up" and he moved on to another subject.
1.) Do you think this is a large majority of the populations that makes extremely ill informed and ill thought out decisions? Such as discarding 1000's of years of human history, the most basic ideas of how the world works, etc?
2.) Being 15, I know that it seems that people always try to follow the crowd. People never really think for themselves, someone that they think is better then them says something(it can be a celebrity, a more popular person, anything). Do you agree with this?
3.) Do you think that this will cause a demise in achievement made by us, the human race, or do you think this has always been happening and we just hadn't noticed it.?
*More will be added as I think of them.*
PS. I do not think war is a good thing, it is the horrible and one of the worst practices of man kind, I personally think that war is a last resort option, after politics have failed.
Warning: If someone makes a serious comment that goes along the lines of "stupid AMERICANS", you fall in with number 1. This happens all over the world.
Warning #2: If this turns into a Iraq war thread, I will ask a mod to either clean it up and watch it, or close it.
Last edited by Commie Killer (2007-02-28 13:00:20)