HASTY MORAL JUDGMENT

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HASTY MORAL JUDGMENT
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HASTY MORAL JUDGMENT

• Presented to Professor Angela Henderson
• Submitted by Carlos Lopez, Krystal Parks,
• Eric Porche, Kathryn Martinez

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HASTY MORAL JUDGMENT

• Definition
• Moral judgment is an assessment of someone or
  something is either positive or negative, correct
  or incorrect. We formulate moral judgments on a
  constant basis, and these are mostly influenced
  by cultural habituation. Society makes judgments
  rapidly. For example, we evaluate people on the
  foundation of looks, ethnicity, social economic
  status or associations. We as people judge
  people on a stereotypical basis and on ignorance.
  Hasty moral judgments are in essence non-rational
  which is, unreasoned they direct the goals of
  critical thinking insight and understanding.

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• Examples of Hasty Moral Judgment
• The two biggest examples of hasty moral judgment
  in the United States in current times, and also
  in the last few hundred years, are politics and
  religion. These are two subjects that adults
  often teach younger people not to discuss amongst
  people you dont know well, and for a reason.
  There are very few people in this country who
  dont have strong moral beliefs towards either a
  religious group or something political.

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• Examples of Hasty Moral Judgment cont.
• Most people learn about the government and
  religion at home long before they start attending
  school. Parents tend teach their children about
  these subjects in a biased way, often without
  even knowing they are doing so. Children are most
  impressionable before the age of 6, so they
  absorb their parents beliefs without the ability
  to understanding the subject they believe in. The
  children grow up not knowing there are other
  options.

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• Examples of Hasty Moral Judgment cont.
• After a few years in elementary school, they
  start to learn the basics of their government but
  rarely the full spectrum of different governments
  and politics. Unless they are in a private
  school, religion may never be taught in school.
  In the case of many private schools, the subjects
  taught may be even more biased than the parents
  teachings.

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HASTY MORAL JUDGMENTExamples of Hasty Moral
Judgment Cont.

• Religion

• politics

• Many religions teach children that other
  religions are wrong. I personally have attended
  several churches of different sects where another
  religions ideals were bluntly contradicted,
  often times without a good explanation. When
  children are young, their elders often teach
  them that adults are right and not to ask too
  many questions, as young children can be quite
  curious. By teaching this, children do not ask
  why enough when it comes to religious beliefs.
  They just assume that their elder family members
  and the elder authorities in their religious
  group are teaching them what is right and not
  just what the adults believe to be right.

• Political beliefs may not be as strongly pushed
  as religion but it tends to be learned in
  conjunction with many religions. If you look back
  at the history of politics and government, most
  wars were started due to either political
  disagreements, religious beliefs or both. The
  beliefs learned from your parents not only effect
  your views on religion and politics, it effects
  your views on anything and everything connected
  to them in some small way including people. If
  you meet a person with different views than
  yours, you are subconsciously judging them based
  on your idea that your views are right and theirs
  are wrong. You might not give them a chance to
  explain why they believe what they do or they
  might not even know why they believe what they
  do, being in the same situation as yourself.

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• Analysis/application
• Let us break down what hasty moral judgment
  really means. Hasty moving or acting with haste
  speedy quick hurried. Moral of, pertaining to,
  or acting on the mind, feelings, will, or
  character. Judgment the forming of an opinion,
  estimate, notion, or conclusion, as from
  circumstances presented to the mind. I dont
  believe you can put these words together and it
  be successful. The problem is that its a quick
  decision based on emotion. I think the only
  solution to the problem is not reasonable. The
  only way to put an end to hasty moral judgment is
  to stop and take a second to really think about
  what is going on and then proceed to analyze and
  really make an educated decision. One way that
  companies capitalize on people emotions is
  through commercials. Such as the political
  campaigns commercials, they slam on the other
  candidate and sometimes make false statements.
  They make these commercials to play upon peoples
  emotions and it generally makes the people not
  like the other candidate. This decision is based
  on no real thought or proof of these allegations.
  The only way to put a stop for this is for people
  to either become better educated or they should
  try to refrain from making decisions without
  really analyzing the situation.

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• Discussion of the medium(s)
• Politics
• People make decisions about which to vote for,
  what is good for our country. Voters decide to
  place people in positions of power, and in doing
  so, they can shape the countries economics and
  laws. If voters do this based on shallow values,
  the judgment made about the candidates will have
  been hasty. Leaders in every level of government
  are required to make decisions that. Based on
  emotions or fleeting desires that later may be
  realized to be not the best decision.

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HASTY MORAL JUDGMENTDiscussion of the medium(s)
cont.

• Economics

• Personal life

• In relationships, plutonic or romantic, hasty
  moral judgments occur when we dont asses
  situations with care. If two friends are in a
  fight and they put another friend in the middle,
  that person must take care to hear both sides of
  the argument. If that person were to do
  otherwise, the risk of making a decision without
  all the facts is far greater. Deciding to date,
  marry, or otherwise become committed to someone
  is a place where many people judge hastily.
  Weather it is because of a longing for
  companionship or just looking to have fun, when
  judging a persons attributes and faults keeping
  off the rose colored glasses can be hard, but if
  those glasses are kept on, it can result in a
  judging a persons character incorrectly.

• Everyone from the president to the common man
  runs the risk of making hasty moral judgments in
  the area of economics. Deciding where money is
  best spent without logical study can result in
  financial problems. Deciding to give money to a
  charity because it sounds good without looking at
  where the money is going to be spent is judging
  the charity based on a surface value without
  knowing what is really going on.

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