Sunday, May 1, 2011
Higher Order Thinking Topic
Good and evil is relative, and it differs from each perspective that a person holds. South Koreans and Americans would typically agree that the North Korean government is "evil" because of the awful things that they have done to their people. Consider an alternative point of view from Kim Jong-Il and Kim Il-Sung's perspectives. Compare and contrast your beliefs with those of Kim Il- Sung's and Kim Jong-Il's. Provide evidence from the text to support your claims.
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Good and evil are truly relative terms which can not begin to explain the discrepancy that exists between the differing opinions of the North Korean government. The opinion of such as system, especially in comparison to one's own, can be deeply rooted in political agenda. Kim Il-sung and Kin Jong-Il have created a system which is inherently difficult to compare with ones own moral code as it alters the significance of morals to a degree higher than we typically consider. In theory, their system attempts to cut off the "self reliant" country of North Korea from the rest of the world, holistically severing individual cognition of the outside world. Without any source to compare to, individuals can then be led to believe that they are truly in good standing, whether they actually are by our standards or not. My beliefs begin to veer off from Kim Il-Sung's in degrees of authoritarian structure. The socialist system he created could have the potential to mitigate social stratification by redistributing wealth. Instead though, Kim Il-Sung divides his society up into a distinct set of over fifty clearly unequal classes. Furthermore, Ki
ReplyDeletem Il-Sung asserts himself as far more significant than any individual in his country, granting himself luxurious armies which consume 25 percent of the nations wealth. Lastly, Kim Il-Sung is a vehement nationalist who puts a great amount of significance on borders that do not exist in physicality.
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