Group Project

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Group Project

• Puauea Galuvao
• JanaE Gonzalez
• Cindy Huhn
• Heidi Hwang

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Hasty Moral Judgment

• Hasty moral judgments are non-rational because
  theyre based on emotion, prejudice,
  preconception, intolerance or self-righteousness.

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September 11, 2001

• An example of this way of thinking is what
  happened after the tragedy on September 11, 2001.
  The emotion after this horrific event caused a
  lot of people to think irrationally. Hasty moral
  judgments were made about Muslim people. Someone
  who may have been a friend, colleague or neighbor
  before the attacks was now considered an enemy.
  The prejudice that was directed at Muslim people
  was incredible. This type of unreasonable
  thinking caused a lot of anguish for the Muslim
  Americans in this country.

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Abortion

• An example of hasty moral judgment could be on
  how a friend of mine was 100 against abortion
  because of her religious values and actively
  spoke against and down upon her peers that had
  this procedure done. This was a hasty moral
  judgment of hers because when she was in the same
  position she realized the reasons why other young
  girls got abortion was the same as her own now.

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The Mormon Church

• Another example of hasty moral judgment would
  be the discrimination of the Church of Jesus
  Christ of Latter Day Saints, otherwise known as
  the Mormon Church. Mormons face prejudice often
  because of their beliefs and practices they no
  longer do, like polygamy. Polygamy is practiced
  by Mormon Fundamentalists, a separate religion
  that believes in certain aspects of Mormonism.
  Hasty moral judgments made against the church
  would be opinions of what people think the
  Mormons do. If they had all the facts, they would
  know that not everything they believe is true.

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Voting

• With the 2008 election coming up I have seen
  many examples of hasty moral judgment in talks of
  who to vote for. One of my best friends is
  choosing not to vote in this election because
  Hilary is no longer in the race. Normally I
  wouldnt see much of a problem with this except
  for the fact that the only reason she wanted
  Hilary to win was because she is a woman. My
  grandparents on the other hand are going to cast
  votes for John McCain simply because he is the
  republican candidate. By not doing the research
  on the candidates many people are making
  decisions that could be detrimental to the well
  being of our country. It is not enough to pass
  judgment and make decisions based only on what we
  feel to be true or what we have been told was
  right. George Carlin once said that people are
  always willing to give up a little bit of freedom
  for a little bit of security.

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Analysis

• Non-rational thinking weakens your ability to
  obtain key critical thinking goals insight and
  understanding. Your thinking is hindered by
  emotion, prejudice, preconception, intolerance or
  self-righteousness.
• When you give up the ability to think for
  yourself and seek out answers to questions that
  you feel comfortable with you risk loosing your
  independence, and it is you who will see the
  brother and sister in the grocery store as the
  product of bad parenting and sketchy morals.
• In order to avoid falling into this trap, make
  sure you are not making a judgment based on your
  feelings about the subject but rather on careful
  examination of the facts. Look at things
  objectively rather than subjectively.

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Mediums

• The media is a trigger for this non-rational way
  of thinking. Information is delivered to the
  public in dramatic ways and with only bits and
  pieces of real factual evidence (if any at all).
  
• News reports, for example, supply information to
  the public on tragic events as they are
  unfolding. Since they are reporting as they go
  and are unable to get all the facts at one time,
  they speculate on what they do not know.
• Tabloids are another example. These magazines
  have pictures plastered all over the covers with
  big bold statements. Now, most of us know that
  this information is either misleading or false,
  but children dont. They see these at checkout
  counters in grocery stores and/or they hear about
  it from other kids at school and they think its
  real.
• Media portrays many stereotypes that cause people
  to make hasty moral judgments. For example,
  racism, like in airplane scenes when people see a
  Muslim, they automatically think a terrorist. No
  one should make judgments on someone just because
  of their appearance.
• In politics, kids tend to go by their family's
  choice in who to vote for. Kids without thinking
  and really analyzing what is going on. Kids
  should actually look into each politician and do
  their research themselves to know exactly who or
  what to vote for.