Conscience is a part of the mind that makes one aware of the actions they had done morally wrong. Many people believe that the conscience is a more powerful motivator than money, fame, or power. I also agree with this belief because with money, fame, and power, a person might not realize what they have done wrong or use its power to defend themselves. Thus, making them selfish. Conscience is a more powerful motivator than money, fame or power because a person might use everything they have to get recognition or successful. For example, dictators. Dictators had been terrorizing and threatening people because their only motive is power and fame. Dictators would execute people or rebels who threatened to take away their power. Thus making dictators their motive power, which is not powerful as the conscience. Stalin, for example. Stalin …show more content…
For example, the American Dream. Immigrants come to the United States for many purposes but one is money and fame. Immigrants will come here and work hard to get money because a conscience is not going to put food in the table, it’s money. But when a person becomes rich, the person becomes greedy and selfish, just like Pablo Escobar. Drug lord, Pablo Escobar, came from a poor family and his motivation was money because when he was young he threatened to take his own life if he didn’t had 1 million US dollars in his pockets. Eventually, he did got filthy rich but that didn't stopped him, he craved for more which lead him to be power hungry. Pablo decided to participate in the political parties, which was a terrible mistake because he was investigated by his political opponents on where was he making all of his money. Since then, the police, army, and special forces had a task to assassinate Escobar, which they did. Because Escobar was hungry for money and then power, he led to himself his own death. In conclusion, fame and power can motivate people to be addicted to either money or
Joseph Stalin said, “Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don 't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?”. Stalin was a dictator of the USSR from 1929 to 1953. Under his dictatorship, the Soviet Union began to transform from a poor economy to an industrial and military based one. While still a teen, Stalin secretly read Karl Marx 's book the “Communist Manifesto”, and became more interested in his teachings. When Stalin gained power, he ruled his nations using terror and fear, eliminating those who did not comply with his governance.
His father sold marijuana while Guzman was a young teen. The money his father made with this marijuana business was spent on booze and prostitutes, so he really did not spend his money properly. At the age of 15, Guzman started his own marijuana business and usually
The call of conscience is continuous and it “summons” people to the challenge of assuming the ethical responsibility of affirming their freedom through resolute choice. For instance, people can structure and live their existence in a meaningful and moral way (Hyde, 2006, p. 39). Call of conscience is a driving force that pushes people to do what is morally right not only for them, but for others as well. Furthermore, call of conscience is a call of Being, “the call of Being demands courage from those who remain open to it and, in doing so, stand ready to acknowledge how their ways of thinking and acting may not be as authentic and respectful as they could possibly be” (Hyde, 2006, p. 51). A call of conscience persuades someone to do the right thing no matter what, even if a person helping someone else has the potential of having negative percussions for doing
I disagree with the quote, but I do agree that there are many references that are similar between J.F. Clarke’s quote and J. D. Salinger’s novel. Conscience is described as the awareness of a moral or ethical aspect to one's conduct together with the urge to prefer right over wrong. In the novel Catcher in the Rye, Holden is very brave by leaving his school and spending time by himself in one of the busiest cities in the world in New York City. I have mix feelings about whether or not Holden obeys his conscience. He is a typical bad boy, he smokes, tries to buy...
Joseph Stalin was a realist dictator of the early 20th century in Russia. Before he rose to power and became the leader of Soviet Union, he joined the Bolsheviks and was part of many illegal activities that got him convicted and he was sent to Siberia (Wood, 5, 10). In the late 1920s, Stalin was determined to take over the Soviet Union (Wiener & Arnold 199). The main aspects of his worldview was “socialism
In addition, his success was also due to corruption in Colombia. The government was so corrupted that nearly half of all the police department in Colombia was working for Pablo Escobar illegally. This made it easy for Pablo to control them over time through money, persuasion and threats. In the end, with too much power comes to much responsibility of which Pablo could not handle, and eventually was pressured into getting caught and was shot by a Colombian officer. After this, the news about Pablo’s death was revolutionary for Colombia.
...at the American culture places economic success at the pinnacle of social desirability, without listing legitimate ways for attaining the desired goal (Merton 672-682). Today, the American Dream no longer reflects the dream Adams had, but instead, the idea that one can only call themselves truly successful if they have become rich, regardless of the way they got there. The American Dream does not guarantee happiness, but rather the pursuit of it, but with the media strongly persuading people that money guarantees happiness, people are encouraged to do whatever it takes, even it means disregarding their morals, so that they achieve ‘success.’ The inability to achieve this goal often leads people to destructive, and ultimately life-threatening criminal behavior as their feelings of anxiety and frustration over this vision of the “American Dream” get the best of them.
Growing up Escobar was exposed to many things that coerced him to be the man he became. Pablo Escobar grew up during a time called La Violencia (The Violence) it was a time of civil war between the Columbian Conservative Party and the Columbian
Friedrich Nietzsche’s “On the Genealogy of Morality” includes his theory on man’s development of “bad conscience.” Nietzsche believes that when transitioning from a free-roaming individual to a member of a community, man had to suppress his “will to power,” his natural “instinct of freedom”(59). The governing community threatened its members with punishment for violation of its laws, its “morality of customs,” thereby creating a uniform and predictable man (36). With fear of punishment curtailing his behavior, man was no longer allowed the freedom to indulge his every instinct. He turned his aggressive focus inward, became ashamed of his natural animal instincts, judged himself as inherently evil, and developed a bad conscience (46). Throughout the work, Nietzsche uses decidedly negative terms to describe “bad conscience,” calling it ugly (59), a sickness (60), or an illness (56); leading some to assume that he views “bad conscience” as a bad thing. However, Nietzsche hints at a different view when calling bad conscience a “sickness rather like pregnancy” (60). This analogy equates the pain and suffering of a pregnant woman to the suffering of man when his instincts are repressed. Therefore, just as the pain of pregnancy gives birth to something joyful, Nietzsche’s analogy implies that the negative state of bad conscience may also “give birth” to something positive. Nietzsche hopes for the birth of the “sovereign individual” – a man who is autonomous, not indebted to the morality of custom, and who has regained his free will. An examination of Nietzsche’s theory on the evolution of man’s bad conscience will reveal: even though bad conscience has caused man to turn against himself and has resulted in the stagnation of his will, Ni...
The novel Of Mice and Men is also a perfect example of how obeying your conscience is hard. In the end of the novel, George has to face the fact that he has to take care of the problem that Lennie causes when he kills Curley's wife. George's conscience tells him exactly what to do and George knows what he has to do. In this example it is a little different. In other situations people would be afraid of what might happen after, however, in this situation George knows that he will be losing his best friend and in this situation it takes a tremendous amount of bravery to follow your conscience.
Just like racism, the root of immigrantism involves a rapacious greed to gain the highest possible profits by the dominant capitalists at the expense of human labor (Alessio, 2011). In contrast to racism which considers a group’s physical unchangeable characteristics as the symbolic representation of their inferiority, which can be psychosocial stability or intellectual capacity (Alessio, 2011), immigrantism recognizes a group’s cultural and economic attribute as an embodiment of weakness. Immigrantism is also different from ethnocentrism as the latter involves uncommonality of social and cultural background, but an immigrant also includes a legal obstacle to belong and remain in his or her host country which most of the time is determined by his or her economic contribution (Alessio,
Pablo Escobar dedicated most of his life to being the spearhead of the Medellin drug cartel in Colombia. The Medellin Cartel was not just a business, it was an empire. It possessed countless camps as well as laboratories devoted to the production of drugs. As it was mentioned earlier, the profits of the cartel were very high. The immense amount of money was put toward the purchase of new labs, planes, and even an island. The Medellin Cartel focused predominantly on cocaine. Not only did Pablo Escobar run a “criminal enterprise” committed to illegally trafficking drugs, he was also “responsible for the slaughter of hundreds of government officials, police, prosecutors, judges, journalists, and innocent bystanders” (Kelley). By spending large amounts of money on public projects to help others, many saw him as a very generous, caring man. Most people only saw the Pablo Escobar that loved to share his wealth with those who needed it in his hometown. They did not see what he was really capable of, commit...
Conscience, in modern usage, term denoting various factors in moral experience. Thus, the recognition and acceptance of a principle of conduct as binding is called conscience. In theology and ethics, the term refers to the inner sense of right and wrong in moral choices, as well as to the satisfaction that follows action regarded as right and the dissatisfaction and remorse resulting from conduct that is considered wrong. In earlier ethical theories, conscience was regarded as a separate faculty of the mind having moral jurisdiction, either absolute or as a representative of God in the human soul.
Stalin, a paranoid ruler, always feared his political opponents, military officials and even common citizens. In his mind he felt they were...
He was one of the worlds richest people in the 1980s.9 In 1989 he was the seventh richest person in the world.9 His personal wealth was 25 billion dollars.9 Escobar became more and more violent.2 He became greedy for power and money.2 He went against the government and the Cali Cartel.2 The Cali Cartel was their main rival.2 Their enemies were the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers and Santacruz Londono.2 The Cali Cartel started attacking the Medellin Cartel mainly to kill Pablo Escobar.2 The Cali Cartel formed a group called Los Pepes, People persecuted by Pablo Escobar.2 They attacked his homes, men, and business.2 The Cali Cartel gave the police and DEA ( Drug Enforcement Administration ) information about Pablo Escobar.2 The Cali Cartel got more powerful in the cocaine trade when the police was more focused on Pablo