Saturday, September 1, 2012

Morality Vs. Speakers


Although I would like to think that if someone is speaking to the public in an open forum, that they are morally good, and ethically sound, but I know this is just not true in all forums.   I think there are people in the world (mostly politicians) who need to be condemned to caves, or other locations that seclude them from the general public. I understand the 1st Amendment right to free speech, but if the only thing that comes out of the speakers mouth is horse pucky and garbage than what's the point.  I think that there are plenty of orators out there in the world trying to make the world a better place that the ones that are out there to fill people's heads with rubbish need to be silenced. 

I also believe that for a person to be able to make a reasonable and rational decision they need to be educated on a subject in a truthful manor; not a one sided, half truth, emotionally heart wrenching, but probably believable as the whole story, education.  If a speaker is confident and quick on their feet with the "right" answer, it is not that hard to fool an uneducated person. 

So, morally good is in the eye of the audience.  I can hope for this to be a fact, but unfortunately I know it to be false. In today's society all that one needs to be an orator is a "believable" story and enough uneducated people backing them to convince others that the orators "story" is true.   

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