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From the past few weeks of reflection, I feel as though I\u2019ve found an underlying theme of \u201cif it were you and your family…what would you do?\u201d \u00a0If in the grand scheme of all in the world, if you knew that your actions such as over utilization of fertilizer that is poisoning the population or growing opium poppy that would be made into lethal drugs (Polenti)…could you be virtuous enough to abstain from what would keep your loved ones alive in order to do the \u201cgreater good?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n From our seat of privilege and incredible luck to be able to point the blame towards the individuals that must face these tough challenges, it becomes low hanging fruit to say \u201cjust do what\u2019s right!\u201d \u00a0But what if what\u2019s right in the moment is feeding your starving children. Or acting out of fear for your life due to terrorist commanders demanding use of your land? For the most part, in the modernized, western world, we have very little experience of this peril of existential crisis of choice. \u00a0We don\u2019t know what it is like to face these challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n These themes run along the storylines seen in \u201cHunger Games\u201d (Quinn) in which through time populations deemed less fortunate (either by favor of God or by evolution) almost deserved their predicament. \u00a0However, as seen throughout history, the \u201cblame\u201d very rarely lies on those that must suffer through tough decisions. Instead those that are in the power to govern in a more just manner are most likely to blame and the most slippery to catch. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I do wonder if at one point, we are able to realize the futile effort of jjudging another individual for how much they can contribute into the grand scheme of the world. \u00a0Perhaps we can instead focus on those that (mis)manage production and distribution of resources that the world so sorely lacks.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the past few weeks of reflection, I feel as though I\u2019ve found an underlying theme of \u201cif it were you and your family…what would you do?\u201d \u00a0If in the grand scheme of all in the world, if you knew that your actions such as over utilization of fertilizer that is poisoning the population or growing opium poppy that would… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professors-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}