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ACTIVITY 1 CARTOON VIOLENCE 'MAKES CHILDREN MORE AGGRESSIVE' By LAURA CLARK FOR THE DAILY MAIL**Questions: What is your opinion in the article?**  My opinion in this article is why in anime they blame the aggression of a child. Why in anime do they blame why a child's perspective changes, yes other...

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ACTIVITY 1 CARTOON VIOLENCE 'MAKES CHILDREN MORE AGGRESSIVE' By LAURA CLARK FOR THE DAILY MAIL

Questions: 1. What is your opinion in the article? 

My opinion in this article is why in anime they blame the aggression of a child. Why in anime do they blame why a child's perspective changes, yes other anime has violence but. There are also good lessons to be learned from anime.

2. Is it possible that constant watching of violence on television results in aggression among children? 

Yes, because if they continue to watch a violent show and because they are young, they have no idea what they are watching, especially if their parents are not paying attention to them.

3. How does the continuous exposure to violence on television affect the character that children develop?  Because they are children, they do not know what is right and what is wrong. Especially, if they are no longer guided by their parents in what they watch. Children now know that they are just watching what videos are on internet. They do not know what is violent. 4. What is the role of the child’s environment in her capacity to develop into a good individual?  the better a child gets along with other people, the more he or she learns apart from what his or her parents teach. he will have his own decision of what he wants, and will know better what is right and what is wrong. 5. Who do you think possesses a moral character in your community? Explain your answer.  Parents, why, because it all starts with them. For them, starting with what a child sees is what he or she will do. Because our parents will be the first to teach us what is right and what is wrong.

Lesson Discussion: STUDY QUESTIONS. 1. Are all pleasures commensurable? Can they be evaluated on a single scale? Can some goods, like friendships, be balanced against other goods like money?  No, because money is not the measure of a person's happiness. YES there are people who are happy when they have a lot of money, but there are also people who can not measure their happiness. Because a person has different happiness. 2. Mill revises utilitarianism by arguing for “higher” pleasures. Which pleasures are higher?  A pleasure is of higher quality if people would choose it over a different pleasure even if it is accompanied by discomfort, and if they would not trade it for a greater amount of the other pleasure. 3. Mill proposes that “higher” pleasures are those preferred by the majority of people. Do you agree that this ¡s a good way of distinguishing between higher and lower pleasures? Can a well-informed majority prefer higher pleasures?  I don't know, because not everyone is taken to a different world by an individual. I mean in the same status only asked. 4. Does utilitarianism questions individual rights? What if violating the civil rights of a minority increases the sum total of pleasure of the majority?  Of course, because not all the majority are different individuals. 5. Do you agree that happiness is the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain, and that all actions are directed toward pleasure?  No, because happiness is not sought. Pain cannot be hidden, and it is even worse if you cannot express your true feelings. Happiness is invisible, but it is what you feel, because pleasure pain is a twin of happiness. 6. Are all pleasures comparable, even objectionable pleasures? What if the majority derives pleasure from being sexist?  I can do nothing there. Because people have different happiness, because we hold someone's happiness, but, we make them feel it. 7. Is it justifiable to build a basketball court because there are basketball fans, than to build a hospital because there are fewer sick people?  YES, since the construction of basketball courts has a budget, as well as hospitals have their own budgets.

8. When is it justifiable to torture suspected criminals?  Depending on the detainee, because they are forced to kill or confess what they have caught even without proof, because there are policemen who just want to increase their rank, so even if they suspect they will be arrested or killed. ACTIVITY 2 Animal Rights and Welfare 1. Go online and look for an instance where animal rights and welfare can be considered an issue. What is the issue that you have identified? Detail your findings and opinion below. Check on the arguments presented by Peter Singer, Joel Feinberg, and Steve Sapontzis.  Farm animal welfare: our work:At World Animal Protection, we help companies and farmers to adopt farming methods without close confinement of animals, as these cause pain and distress. And we help to create conditions where animals are more able to express their natural behaviours, and move freely, which reduces the need for painful practices like tail docking (which is used to stop crowded pigs attacking each other in intensive farms). 2. In view of Bentham’s and Mill’s assertion of the greatest happiness of the greatest number, do you think that animal rights and welfare should even be a concern in the Philippines where millions of Filipinos below the poverty threshold are struggling to have a descent lives? Is the concern for animal rights and welfare a first world problem?  Yes, because animals also have the right to live, by guiding them. Because animals do not speak but they make us feel their feelings, so we have a responsibility as being recognized as masters.

3. Consider other topics within the realm of animal rights and welfare. Select one and give an initial presentation of the significance of discussing this topic. Consider too if trees and other elements of nature should also be given rights; check the paper of Christopher Stone entitled “Should Trees Have Standing? Towards Legal Rights for Natural Objects.”

ACTIVITY 3

NATURAL LAW 1. Do you know what LGBTQ is?  Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) community, to the judgment that two people of the same sex being together is unnatural. 2. In your opinion, how do people know if they are lesbian, gay, or bisexual?  Through their actions, dress and presentation, most lgbt are now openly so you will not have too much difficulty identifying them. 3. Do you agree on same-sex marriage? Why or why not?  No, because God made woman for man, and man for woman only 4. What is your stand on SOGIE Bill?  Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Expression Bill. also known as the AntiDiscrimination Bill (ADB)

5. In our generation today, does being part of the LGBTQ community is natural? Defend your answer.  Yes, because there has also been a law on gender equality in this generation

STUDY QUESTIONS 1. Are there other ways that the word “natural” is used to justify a particular way of

behaving? How do these approaches compare to the theory of Aquinas?  Well that all depends, if you take the word natural, what does it mean, it means the original nature of things, who made the original nature of things, God did, God decided who or what went with who or what. Aquinas lived thousands of years after God made the natural order of things. So if you want to use the word to means something else, you can do, it changes nothing, the natural order still remains, a bird does not mate with a fish, So Aquinas was fudging to make his theories sound better, and remember, they are theories, not fact.

2. Can you think of human laws that are proper extensions of the natural law? Explain how this is so. Can you think of other human laws that violate the natural law? Explain how this is so.  No, most of the laws they make are for the good of their pockets, we know the politics of the Philippines right ?, we know that most of them are rude to money all the laws they think will be good for their pockets they will implement . 3. Are there other forms of harm—short of killing another person—that may be taken as a violation of the natural inclination to preserve one’s being? Justify your answer.  Words, the words we utter to our neighbor hurt more. Like bullying, we know that many are bullied because , it's either that, the person being bullied is not able to fight, most of them end up in depression. Many of us just want to keep quiet because no one will defend us.

Activity 4 Post-Truth 1. Go online and look for an instance of what might be “fake news.” See whether you are able to determine the veracity of the news report. Detail your findings and opinion below.  As the world responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, we face the challenge of an overabundance of information related to the virus. Some of this information may be false and potentially harmful. 

Inaccurate information spreads widely and at speed, making it more difficult for the public to identify verified facts and advice from trusted sources, such as their local health authority or WHO.

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However, everyone can help to stop the spread. If you see content online that you believe to be false or misleading, you can report it to the hosting social media platform.

2. In view of Aquinas’s assertion that reason is what makes us uniquely human and that being reasonable opens up both an epistemic concern for truth and also a social concern of being in relation with others, provide an assessment on the value or disvalue of post-truth phenomena such as fake news or alternative facts.

3. Consider other topics within the realm of media ethics. Select one and give an initial presentation of the significance of discussing this topic.  Digital news media includes online journalism, blogging, digital photojournalism, citizen journalism and social media. It talks about how journalism should interact and use the 'new media' to publish stories including how to use texts and images provided by other people....