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This is an interesting video and argument on the need for practical wisdom. It challenges the concept of rules and regulations and offers an alternative opinion to how things in society and education can be done well. Watch the video and post your responses below:
1. What is Practical Wisdom ?
2. Do you agree or disagree with his argument? Are rules beneficial or counter productive? Use evidence from the video and your own experiences to justify your response. Engage in dialogue with 2 other students to flush out the details of your position.
3. Have you ever done anything you would considerate to be practical wisdom
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DeleteIn your own words displaying yor level of understanding
DeletePractical wisdom is the moral will to do the right thing and the moral skill to figure out what the right thing is
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DeletePractical wisdom is basically common sense. Knowing what is right, doing what is right and knowing when to do it
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DeletePractical wisdom is doing the right thing and determining what the right thing is in some situations.
ReplyDeletepractical wisdom is knowing what the right thing is and acting accordingly
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Deleteyes, rules don't always guide you
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ReplyDelete1) Practical wisdom is to use knowledge, and wisdom towards making the right decision in different situations
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Delete1.)Practical wisdom is doing the right thing by bending the law. Doing the thing that you feel is right but you can't because others tell you to follow the rules and regulation. It is being happy on the thing you are doing. Psychologists have proven that the two things to happiness is love and work. Love is to take care with those who are close to you. Work is being happy about the thing you are doing, to succeed by your standards not others. This concept is barely used because people are afraid to use this to help people because it does not follow the rules. Practical wisdom are done by the people who do the right thing. When they don´t care about themselves but other. To not care about your well being but others. Helping another person the way you think is right is much better to help others by the rules is it won't benefit them.
ReplyDelete2.)I believe that people should live by of what they think is right. If people make rules to benefit their sake, how would it help us. We should know what is right or wrong. Many policemen know that they are not guilty but they have to arrest them because that is there job. Hold on how is that there job. They should help others. They follow what their superiors say and the law because they are afraid to lose their job. Aren't policemen suppose to help people so why are they not. They are not using practical wisdom. They follow the law, but not what they think is correct. Following the law is crucial for everyone safety but why are policemen so blind that they won't do what they think is right.
In the video he mentions how the court follows the law. That means anyone can be a judge. They can do it. No. People need to use what they think is right because judges have had a lot of experience with people telling the truth and lying. If the court follows laws they might have a person in custody who is not even guilty, because all the evidence proves that they had committed the crime. Can laws think. NO. Humans do. Human knows what is best. We have a 6th sense when we can tell when people are lying or telling the truth. We should trust our judgement and not what the law or rule tells them. As i said before judges know when someone is lying because they have experince.
Another example would be he mentioned a teacher. Teacher are given a set of rules to follow so that the students will get educated. He said many teacher just follow that and don´t think about what they should teach their students to become successful. Can a piece of paper with our curriculum decide our future. No. Teacher should take more action to use their thoughts. He also mentioned that they might follow the rules for financial reason, because they want to do as they are told to so they can get paid. Some teachers do this and some don´t . I believe that supply teacher mostly do this because our home room teachers give them the rules for what to do. These supply teacher are suppose to listen to our home room teachers, but they can also think what's best for the class right now.
Most homeroom teachers do get the curriculum but they change it to what they like. This is practical wisdom. Our teachers encourages us to bring our devices because it is beneficial to us. The school rule says do not bring your devices to school without the teacher's permission. Why do they say this. I believe they say this because they don't want to get in trouble. They don't want parents complaining that their child lost their phone at school. The superiors think what is best for them. He also mentioned that teachers are suppose to teach. This means that teacher are using paper to identify what they should do.
Yes I agree with him because he is right. In the video he uses an example and it was a Judge should be able to look at the rules and see what sentance or punishment the defendant deserves it makes sense because everyone has their own opinion
ReplyDeleteI also think he is right because the way our generation I built we NEED rules to keep us structured and safe at all times
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ReplyDelete1) Practical wisdom is to use knowledge, and wisdom towards making the right decision in different situations
ReplyDelete1. Practical wisdom is something along the terms of 'common sense, except that it is kind of a mix between and practical reasoning, which is somewhat related to the lines of Aristotle. It isn't like common sense in the way that the term applies to everything, rather than just theoretically, in a way that concerns the person who is practicing the matter of subject and challenging the traditional rules of his/her experience or practice and applying practical rules and decisions made of self-knowledge that actually apply to the situation he/she is in. Except that common sense also is used by making incentives which is often better to use than traditional incentives in situations.
ReplyDelete2. I think I stand neutrally with the argument. I want to say that I agree and disagree. I disagree with the arguments in the two videos, because rules do exist for a reason. The whole concept of rules are made in mind be used of the thought that people could break them. Rules are made to prevent people from making mistakes and, in most cases, not breaking the law. Not using them could mean many incidents and consequences for serious issues, which would be a bad thing. However, as described in the video(s), there are many examples of rules being too heavily used on people for something they didn't have the full intention to do. For example, the prison example. The man did try to steal, but the thing is-he was drunk, and he had been using a TOY gun to rob someone at 'gunpoint'. He wasn't fully aware of what he was doing. However, the judge used his 'practical wisdom' and lessened the sentence he had to face, with some negotiations, because he knew that the person wasn't fully aware, and reduced the sentence to WAY less time than before, also giving him the opportunity to work at the same time. The judge used his practical wisdom and made up an incentive for something the person wouldn't have to regret for the next two years, because of his drunken mistake. So basically, rules are beneficial, but sometimes counter-productive if heavily used for a lesser situation.
1)Practical wisdom as explained in the video can mean many different things. Barry Scwartz explains all the different virtues that aristotle taught to his students. He claims that the key to all the various virtues that we are taught from a young age is practical wisdom. Practical wisdom is basically knowing when to start using a particular virtue, and when to stop, and knowing when you've gone too far.
ReplyDeleteMr. Scwartz uses the example of courage. Courage is a very important virtue if you want to achieve your various goals in life. Courage is what enables you to go out and do what you need to do to live a comfortable life in the future. But courage also should have its limits. Being too courageous can be very dangerous to your personal well-being and also people around you. Barry claims that too much courageous can translate into recklessness. I agree with him. Too much of anything is bad for you, Whether mentally or physically.
In conclusion i think practical wisdom is basically a person's common sense. Knowing when to do the right thing, and when to sugarcoat something. For example honesty and kindness, Practical wisdom enables you to determine when to be honest, and when to be kind. Which is a test of a person´s better judgement, or according to Barry Scwartz your practical wisdom
practical wisdom is knowing and doing the right thing when it`s needed even if it means breaking the roles at time.
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Delete1. Practical wisdom is the moral will to do the right thing and the moral skill to figure out what the right thing (for each situation) is. That doesn't mean you break the rules entirly. You simply modify them to make the situation better for everyone.
ReplyDeleteFor example in the video was the case of Michal. Michal was a guy who was supporting his wife and his young kid going to porotial school, but he had a low paying job. One day Michal lost his job and ended our panicking. One night he drank a little too much and he robbed a cab driver and stole $50.00 at gun point, but it was a toy gun. Short time after he was caught and arrested and the next day was taken to his trial. The Pensilvenia guidlines requred something like this for a minimum 2 years in jail. The judge had decided that this was a ridiculus thing to do. He was a father who has never robbed before and had faced servere circumstances not to mention he was drunk and the gun was a toy. So she improvised Michal's sentence. Instead, Michal stayed in jail for 11 months and was relesed every day to go to work. He did carry out his sentence and found a new job and Michal and his family lived a happy ending thanks to the judge's wise improvisation.
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ReplyDelete3.) i have not yet been in a position where that would occur. The rules so far have been right for the time being. The rules has helped everyone around me, but i don´t think it helps in the adult age. Rules restrict us from freedom. Us kids are told to do this and that, but what they tell us will help us, but rules won´t help us when we get a job. rules are created to restrict us. To restrict is would mean that superiors would want something . OUr parents tell us what is right and wrong, because they know what is best best for us now, and because they are our parents, we trust them, by making our decisions. In our future, our parents won´t be there. We would have bosses, that would tell us what do to, because we work for them. Eventually i will want to live by my rules, because that would make me happy.
ReplyDeleteYes I have.yesterday I was walking home with my friend and we seen two cars crash. There was a lady and her son in one car and a man in the other. The lady didn't turn her car off and gasoline was leaking so me and my friend offered to turn it off and grab her phone, gps ,ect to help her so she could just calm down.so to show practical wisdom I helped her and made sure she was OK instead of walking past the accident and going home and to be honest I was pretty cranky that afternoon.another way was we took action before the police came
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ReplyDeletePractical wisdom is doing what you know is right even if you have to break the rules.
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ReplyDelete3. I think I have. Since it is almost the same as common sense, I obviously would have used it at some point of my life. Maybe in school, since that is a thing I've had experience with for 9 years so far, and things like projects, schoolwork, and homework sometimes do require things like common sense and knowledgable decisions as well.
ReplyDeletePractical wisdom is the psychological will to be a good person and to do the right thing no matter what. We all tend to do the thing that gets us out of trouble and that is not showing practical wisdom because you look at it as doing the right thing for yourself and other people look at it as lying and finding a way out, which is exactly what you are doing. And if you do the right thing without willing to do it, it becomes something different. It no longer becomes practical wisdom since you were just doing it because you have to. It becomes something that you are forced to do. But the problem is, sometimes in order to do the right thing, you have to bend the rules a little bit or find a loophole around the laws which is not a good thing, but sometimes there is no progression without compromises, which is where practical wisdom comes in, having the will to do the right thing.
ReplyDeletepractical wisdom is escaping from the imprisoned box to help or submit your help to someone.even if there are regulations and consequences
ReplyDeleteI would agree to his arguement since breaking the rules to do whats right is kind of good in a way. Rules were made to keep people from doing the wrong thing but if you are breaking the rules but still doing what you believe is right then I think its fair to do that. I think that rules are beneficial and at the same time counter productive since rules take away freedom and rules do help in ways.
ReplyDelete1. What is Practical Wisdom ?
ReplyDeletePractical wisdom is doing the right thing and using you brain you are able to do a certain task. It is used for the people who do the right thing by thinking more about others rather than themselves. Barry Schwartz mentioned that scientist discovered that the there are two things to happiness, which are love and work. Love is one of them because you are able to be close to someone you love and someone you think is more important that you are. Work is the other one because you are able to get money that you want and how you are improving something that you have been doing for many years. Practical wisdom is also using your common sense in the things you do because if you don't the thing you are doing is basically wrong unless you use your brain wisley. An example is that if you are in school and you are following the rule that everyone is following, something you will have to take the other way rather than that because using one rule can make you in trouble but at the same time it won't because you used it wisely.Practical wisdom is to do the right thing at the right time/situation.
2. Do you agree or disagree with his argument? Are rules beneficial or counter productive? Use evidence from the video and your own experiences to justify your response.
I agree and disagree because the rules can be good for us and sometimes it can be bad. I agree with this because the rules that were given to us was for a reason so we don’t do anything wrong and even if we do we are able to learn from our mistakes. You can only break the rule/law if you know what you are trying to do then it is ok to break the law but if you don't you will have big consequences. I disagree with the argument because what if you are trying to help someone but to break the rule/law you can solve the problem. Having a common sense of what you are doing is right rather than it not being right. An example, is the prisoner story, the man tried to steal after being too drunk, he had a toy gun with him and stole about $50, he had no idea what is was trying to do. The judge used Practical Wisdom and did what they were supposed to do. They reduced the sentence because they knew that the person didn't know what they were doing. He had an opportunity to work and be in jail. I think that rules are beneficial and counterproductive because they are good for you and they are bad for you.
Practical wisdom in my opinion is when people have the feeling of righteousness to know the difference between wrong and right and good and bad, it´s about trusting your positive instincts. Sometimes we fail to be wise because of greed but practical wisdom is basically being the protagonist of the story. Sometimes you need to bend the rules if you want to do the right thing, like the Judge who bent the law to help out the guy who stole fifty dollars and pulled out a toy gun, she thought he didn´t deserve so much time in prison because he needed to support his family, sometimes practical wisdom comes out from sympathy .Here is an example of pratical wisdom, Bob finds Bill´s wallet on the sidewalk, Bob owed his friend some money, he wanted to keep the wallet to pay his friend back but he did what he thought was right, so he returned Bill´s wallet back to him.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, I do agree with Barry Schwartz on the 21st century´s definition of practical wisdom. But I also disagree. The ideas in these two videos are good but some aren´t sensical enough to make me understand if he´s just saying this to make the world sound like a great place and that he´s forgetting about reality. Practical wisdom… something that many of us lack. If you look at the world today, there are probably more antagonists than protagonists, people do violent things to survive, they are not going to care about you or anyone else even if someone gets hurt. As I got older, I learned that before you look out for anyone else, make yourself your number one priority. People aren´t going to do the right thing because they want to, even if they regret it or feel sympathetic for the person they harmed it wouldn´t matter anyway because what is done is done. I agree with him that sometimes practical wisdom comes from our humanity and that some people bend the rules out of the goodness from their hearts to help people but it is very, very rare. Nowadays, we always think about rules, and laws, but how many of us can say we never have broken a rule before? So many crimes are commited a year, what makes you think that we wouldn´t break rules?
Practical wisdom really depends on if you are willing to do something from virtue. If you do something unwise , you´re going to feel bad about it, but if you do something right, you´ll be praised about it and your self confidence will be boosted knowing that you´re the better person. Like Barry Schwartz said, the guy who robbed the cab driver was a good man, he was a good father and he hadn´t commit any crimes in the past, but then he got laid off, got drunk and went ballistic. Sometimes when bad things happen in your life, it brings out the worst in you. But the judge was different, she bent the law to help someone she thought didn deserve such a heavy punishment, she didn´t bend the law like the guy did because of stupidity and greed, she bent in because she had a good heart and she was wise. In this world, there are people who are good , bad and reckless, the defendant was reckless, he wasn bad.
Like Schwartz said, the key to happiness was love, and good work. I agree with that because without love, you wouldn have anyone to encourage you to be a better person or anyone to make you happy. Without a good job, you would be grumpy and mad at everyone all the time. If this person was happy, they wouldn´t do anything to risk it, so they would be wise, they wouldn´t need anything to make them happier because they already have everything they need. Maybe people don´t have love or a good job and that´s why they do stupid things to make them happy.
But do people still do stupid things if they KNOW that they will break the rules? And make them happy on what ways?
Delete2) In my opinion it is hard to support just one argument. Rules can be both beneficial and counter-productive. I think it really depends on the situation. The circumstances really determine whether or not, you should be a dictator and take advantage of your power/influence or be a laid back person who gives people under his control free reign. Both methods have their positive and negatives reactions.
ReplyDeleteIf you assume the role of a dictator, you are essentially taking a route, which is used by most educators, and people in power. However this may not be the best route. I speak of experience, last year I was bestowed upon an educator who lived and died by using and abusing his voice. Both literally and figuratively. But the class never really got the point. I’ve never been in a class where authority is so blindly rejected. On the other hand my current educator, does not believe in staple rules, like no music or no chewing gum. The class is very well-behaved, and you usually hear a pin drop.
However the lack of rules can also be abused by many students. The negative aspects of this are endless, as many middle school and high school so very well know. For example when students are given the privilege of using devices in class, and are trusted to do school work, often they are caught abusing this privilege. That was a very minor example, there are bigger issues to worry about.
That’s where rules come in. Rules are used to enforce something. When children choose to take advantage of opportunities, rules would be the logical solution. In my opinion if students choose to abuse authority, they deserve to rules enforced upon them. Rules, when combined with an authority people are willing to listen to, don’t provide many problems. Barry Scwartz claims that the opposite is true. People tend to break rules, just for the sake of breaking them. I do not agree with his opinion. Without rules, our entire world would be in chaos, we cannot convince everyone to use their practical wisdom because they won’t. Laws can’t just be removed, because the federal government decides that people will be able to use their practical wisdom in deciding what’s right and what’s wrong. That would come with many casualties. That no one wants to see.
In conclusion I think that whether or not rules are necessary, really depends on the situation, and the type of people you are dealing with. Agreeable people tend to be more lenient and don’t need an authority figure hovering over them. People who are less agreeable, usually need rules to work smoothly and efficiently.
2.) I would have to agree with his argument because there is a point in breaking the rules. For example when he was talking about how there was this guys that was accused of robbing 50 dollars from a guy but the judge knew him as a responsible and hardworking husband so he gave him a second chance this is the right thing to do because he was known for being responsible and the judge gave him a second chance and I bet that he never did anything like that again. The victim was nit satisfied with this and wanted to ruin his life so he put him in jail for longer period of time without him going to work. This is cruel, he did not mean to do it.This is proof how following rules does not help you in some situations. There was a possibility for his death. when you go to jail it goes on your record and everytime you go to a job they will check your records so there is a small chance that he would get a decent job. if he doesn't the families children would have to suffer because of lack of wealth and this makes them starve eventually to death.
ReplyDelete3- I think I've used practical wisdom somewhere in my life. It is basically just doing the right thing even if it means breaking the rules. So just using common sense. Which is used for a majority of the time you will live. I've used practical wisdom mostly for things that require common sence such as walking across a street.
ReplyDelete2. In my opinion, I do think rules CAN be counter productive, just not all the time. For example, the case of Michal. We know that Michal was an average guy until he lost his job. Then one night when he drank too much he found a toy gun and robbed someone at gunpoint, and then was caught. It was $50 that he stole. The judge thought this was ridicules. Michal may have robbed someone, but it was a toy gun, he was drunk, he has a family to support...all this would do is wreak up a family. So the judge used practical wisdom to improvise a solution . Since Michal did rob someone, he gets 11 months in jail, on top of that every morning he goes out to work. It was a really good decision that the judge made, because this way Michal can support his family.
ReplyDeleteNow let us change up the situation. Let us say that Michal was a known robber that always robs other people at gunpoint. All of a sudden Michal was caught stealing $50 at gunpoint with a real gun. At court he would have to face the minimum jail time of 25 years non-stop. This would make sense, since Michal was armed and he was doing this for a long time. We still need rules to keep the community safe from situations like these, but if something unexpected happened, something that no one has done before but still ends up doing it over desperaion, we can modify the rules as a warning.
3. Have you ever done anything you would considerate to be practical wisdom
ReplyDeleteI think I have been in something that considerate to practical wisdom because while using your common sense and doing the right thing at the right time. One of the examples can be when I am doing my homework or test because I would know what you're supposed to do but i won't use my common sense to answer the question. With that i would forget how to do it or still won´t understand what to do at the end. I have only used it in school but there isn't any time that I had broken a rule or changed it during the 9 years of being in school. I won't be able to break a rule because there are teachers all around and there won´t be a time i would need to break a rule. At work we will have employees everywhere and we would need to act mature and know that you can get fired and won't be able to get the same job again. At home we have our parents who tell us what is the right thing to do and what is the wrong thing to do because they know if will do something wrong and then we will get in trouble. I would change rules at point of my life to do something better.
2) I don't agree with him or disagree, rules could be beneficial an counter productive depending on what the situation is. I think that we shouldn't always use practical wisdom instead of rules because depending on the situation rules could be the easier and better way to solve the solution. We should know when to use practical wisdom and when to follow the law and rules strictly. For example in the video Barry Schwartz's brought up a situation of how a judge used practical wisdom to solve the situation. There was a man who got really drunk one night and stole $50 with a toy gun he had know idea what he was doing. So he went to court and the judge used practical wisdom instead of following the law directly and gave him a much lower sentence because the judge knew he wasn't planning to rob him on purpose. But I also disagree because not all situations could be solved by using practical wisdom instead of following the law like this one. If there was no laws and everyone used practical wisdom instead the world would be a mess. We have laws and rules for a reason which is to keep us safe. With no laws there would be much more crimes going around everywhere because there wouldn't be a law to stop them, and using practical wouldn't be able to stop them. So at the end of the day it should be obvious when to use practical wisdom, and when to follow the rules strictly.
ReplyDelete3.)practical wisdom is doing the right thing even if that means bending the rules at times, this is the definition that i used when giving this response. I don't recall doing something that involves practical wisdom but if I were to change the event that occurred in the past I would definitely use practical wisdom now that I grasped the idea of it. I had a lot of scenarios where this would have actually help me in the future. For example there is a rule that I used to follow in grade 3. Never accuse anyone of anything. There was a student he broke the sharpener and everyone saw it then my best friend went to sharpen his pencil and the sharpener made this crazy sound the teacher heard it and blamed him for breaking the sharpener but we could not say anything because she would not believe us and we would be breaking the rules. If i used practical wisdom that day my friend would not have had to pay for the broken sharpener. This is one of the many reason that I have that I could have used practical wisdom.
ReplyDeleteYes I have shown many instances, where I displayed practical wisdom. One of those instances was when I was in seventh grade. One of my friends asked me for my notes. Of course that would be cheating, So i decided to help him make his own notes. He did good on the test, because of my help. Also practical wisdom is like common sense, so it is used in all aspects of life.
ReplyDelete3. I think I have used practical wisdom in my life. Another word for practical wisdom is common sense. I use common sense in my everyday part of life, whether it is sneaking something to my parents without my brother knowing what it is, or it is a situation where secrets need to be kept, the time when practical wisdom is needed I will use it. An example would be; our class has a test tomorrow and, I do not understand the topic. So the wise thing to do would be to study.
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ReplyDelete3) I think I have used practical wisdom before because practical wisdom is basically the same thing as using common sense which we have all used in different situations.
ReplyDeletewhich require common sense such as projects, tests, schoolwork, and more.
DeleteI think rules are beneficial because without rules we would be doing whatever we want and since there's no rules the students can also decide to do whatever they want. Teachers can benefit a lot from rules . There teaching job would be much easier , and since the students will already know the rules and expectations all they have to do is follow them and it will both make the teachers life and the students life more easy. But if there where no rules at all then the students would start to miss behave leave the class/ school anytime they want to, do homework anytime they want ,disrespect any teacher/ student anytime they want without getting into trouble. Rules will both help the teachers and the students have a easier school life. Rules help the students and teachers both stay organized. In conclusion i think rules can be both beneficial and counter productive. It all depends on the situation your in if you think it's right to break a specific rule at a certain time then you can do it but if you think breaking that rule is not right and you can get into trouble then you don't do it, it all depends on you and what you want to do.
ReplyDeletePractical Wisdom is having the potential to do the right thing at the right time for a right purpose even if you have to break the rules in order to do what you believe is good.
ReplyDelete3. I don't think I have done anything yet that I would consider to be practical wisdom.
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ReplyDelete1) What is Practical Wisdom?
Practical Wisdom is common sense. Practical wisdom is knowing what the right thing to do in different situations. For example if your friend gets a cut on their hand, what would you do? The right thing to do is to get a bandage and if it’s a serious issue, call for help. This in my opinion is the right thing to do when a friend gets a cut, meaning that you have used your common sense or practical wisdom to solve the problem, but there is more to practical wisdom. Practical wisdom is also knowing the right thing to do ourselves without being told what to do.
Barry Shwartz’s Meaning of Practical wisdom is the moral will to do the right thing and the moral skill to figure out what the right thing is ourself even if it means to break the laws to do the right thing.
2) I agree with Barry Swartz’s argument but to a certain extent. I agree that we should do the right thing in all situations but if it means breaking the rules to do the right thing can depend if I agree or disagree. Barry Shwartz’s argues that there is no set of rules, no matter how detailed, no matter how specific. Rules exist to guide you to do the right thing, for example, laws exist to make you do the right thing. So if Barry says to break the rules to do the right thing then what is the point of having rules in the first place. I can understand if you are slightly bending the rules, but completely breaking the rules is something I must disagree with.
Barry makes an example saying that a man named Michael robbed a cab driver for $50 after drinking a bit too much. He robbed him at gunpoint with a toy gun. He got caught and he was convicted for armed robbery. The Pennsylvania sentencing guidelines say that a crime like this is a minimum sentence of 2 years. But the judge thought this was unfair because, Micheal had not committed a crime before and he doesn’t get paid much after all he did lose his job. So the judge sentenced him for 11 months and for him to go to work during the day and spend his night in jail so he can provide for his family. The judge ignored the sentence guidelines and created her own so Micheal can provide for his family. After the sentence was over the prosecuter didn´t think that it was a fair punishment because the created sentence by the judge doesn´t meet the sentence guidelines, so after completing his sentence he had an additional time of five years in prison. Although the judge was using her practical wisdom in this situation she did break the law and had to follow to make things better.
I agree with the prosecutor in this case. Imagine yourself in this case. You are a lawyer fighting for the justice of your client and the judge bends the rules and says that the criminal is facing an 11 month sentence in and out of jail, for a minimal sentence like this for 2 years . Would you think that this is justice as a lawyer? Of course not! You want your client to not only to win the court case but to also get justice in the end, Although if you were in Michaels shoes you would want them to have mercy, it wouldn´t be fair for the plaintiff.
3) I am sure I have used practical wisdom but I am sure that I have not broken the rules by doing so. Rules are there for a reason, it´s there to guide you to do the right thing, not to be broken to do the right thing because if it was there for that reason then why are rules created in the first place. Common sense is something everyone has done in point in their life including me, whether it´s giving a friend a bandage or heating up cold food.
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ReplyDeleteI actually agree with the speaker’s argument because everybody should be willing to do the right thing and make things right for everybody. That is what can keep our society in order and treat everybody with fairness. He thinks that people need to change how they look at other people and use something called practical wisdom. I doubt that anyone has ever gone their whole life without bending the rules a little for good reasons. If you are trying to do something right for others, then finding a loophole isn’t such a bad thing, but if you have bad intentions by bending the rules, then that is not practical wisdom.
ReplyDeleteFor example, in the video there was an example about a man who used a fake gun and stole $50. According to the law, he would be sentenced for 2 years but, at court, the judge sentenced him for 11 months and he was able to work as well because she thought that the man didn’t deserve to go to jail for that long since he didn’t have a criminal record and he had to support his family. The judge was showing practical wisdom since she wanted to do the right thing for society.
There was also another story that I remember that I really liked. It was about a janitor named Luke. The patient in one room was in the hospital and the patient's father never saw Luke clean the room the first time he did. Luke knew that he already cleaned the room, but he cleaned it in front of the patient's father again without saying anything because that was showing empathy and practical wisdom because he knew that the father was stressed out seeing his son in the hospital for six months straight.
In my opinion, I think that practical wisdom is very important because it's basically using your common sense to do the right thing. Now, luke could’ve fought back and said that he already cleaned the room, but he didn’t because as human beings, we need to understand that we shouldn’t argue against each other for our own good. We have to be able to spare someone's feelings and be kind.
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ReplyDeletepractical wisdom is basically knowing the limits when you're doing something.showing that you know when you can't do more. it's the judgement of your own mind.
ReplyDeleteyes i agree with his with his argument because sometimes rules have to be broken. rules can be the things in the way of accomplishing what you need to do. sometimes the right thing could end up breaking the rules but since that will be helping maybe bending the rules once in awhile to do something the right way could be beneficial. most people wont break the rules because they are afraid of the consequence of what they did.
3. I'm pretty sure I would have used practical wisdom in some point in my life because well, it's basically using common sense and to have to have the will to do something good.
ReplyDeletePractical wisdom can come from helping someone cross the road to making someone a nice dinner. I work in the office on Fridays. One time, somebody came in and they were feeling really sick and they were vomiting a lot. So I helped them by gathering their things and sending them home safely with their parents. You may be thinking that this is nothing but a very small favour, but it is still showing practical wisdom.
You can find practical wisdom in the smallest of things that are still as important as the greater favours because when you are willing to do something, there is always a way to get over it. Showing practical wisdom is a very simple thing. You can easily show it, if you have the will.
i think that rules are both beneficial and counter productive. rules can be saving people from facing major penalties like jail time or charges, rules are protecting people from people who want to hurt others, but rules that limit what you can own or make or even use in your home are counter productive. maybe when your trying to build a treehouse and you make is really big and the government say you have to take it down because its not allowed, this kind of stuff should be allowed because you should have the freedom to do what you want.
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