The Gap Between Fact & Ideal

Professor Anderson

HU 260

Assignment 7.1

I often believe in human nature and also in the belief that someone has perhaps per their own personal belief or the values inculcate in them by their family members or others. At birth, innocence is always a part of us, but through years you learn and then decide for yourself, for example racism which is an act that is teach or learn, could form part of yourself because it was taught to you or in the other hand, you are not racist because you were taught not to be so, I believe that the difference between human fallibility and vested interest just as the example above, there is a thin line that could easily go both ways.

This chapter presents different ways that several people approach to knowledge or perhaps the way they think or belief about someone or something, the way they analyze thinks, actions, or reactions, I choose two topics; first “True Loyalty to a Discipline” and “The Gap Between Fact & Ideal”, I chose these topics because they are the ones that caught my attention the most, in regards of the questions in the assignment, I must say that in the first topic, is the one that I associate the most with the way that I am, or the way that I have been born and raise with. For instance when you are true to a discipline, perhaps religion takes place in the matter, currently I am a United States soldier, whom was mobilize to Iraq for a long period of around almost two years, still my greatest fear perhaps was not to be shoot at, or even die, but taking someone else life in order for me or a friend of mine to live. In my mind the act of taking someone else life no matter what situation is a great offense created by myself which later own I would have to briefly describe the reasons for my actions, I belief that I am very loyal to a discipline that was taught through years to us regarding not killing some body else, often I read the news and read about others killing without mercy, any age, by doing many...