Writting II

Apr 01, 2004 10:48

I have this writing class. In this class, we often have class discusions about controversial topics. I always do my best to add to topics by giving opinions. sometimes I get my whole thought out, but mostly I can't say a full idea, since somebody else jumps in and argues with a minor syntax detail. That's what I hate. I try to say things intelectually and accurately to what I feel. I guess that I'm just to stoic and longwinded for these people. The largest problem is that the proffesor doesn't regulatecomments so that a person could acctually take a stand.

Today I was trying to say that I don't have a problem with children being tried as adults for murder. i said that every american knows from the age of 4 that killing is illegal, even if they don't think that it's wrong. I was then going to say that we, as a society, can't expect children to understand a law, but not take action against them when they break it. Not to say that 4 year olds should go to jail, but 13 year olds should. i didn't get to, however, since somebody blurted out that there's a difference between "wrong" and "illegal". Just what I was about to say, ass.

So, this is a plea to all reading my message. When you're in a class discussion, don't blurt out and destroy all orderly thought. Your job as an arguer is to completely wipe out their argument, and if you don't know it, how can you do that?

Brayton Batson signing off
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