System Examples

In the news story of the Chinese man and the Countrywide system, a language barrier caused a man to lose his home. The man could not speak English and had Parkinson disease. He was taught not to open junk mail and thought that a piece of mail that was important was junk mail. Because he spoke a different language than us people in America and that he had a disease, he was classified at the bottom, and insignificant. This relates to Jesus' time when the sick were rejected, because of the disease they had. They should have gave him another chance, because it was purely accidental. We should not discriminate others and take into consideration the case and what had happened. We have different moral responses, because of the way we were brought up, our environment, and those who surround us.

In the Stanford prison case the students took on the role as guards and prisoners. As soon as the students took their job and put on the costume, they changed. They became someone different. As people when we have a role, we take on that role and become something different. In this case the students that were not normally mean and abusing, but became mean and abusing, because they were given a certain role . Once you are given power you change and want more power and do things you wouldn't normally do. Systems normally give power to a certain group, which causes the people to conform and take on the roles to keep their power.

Rachel Barge is a student a UC Berkeley, who started Steam. Steam is The Sustainability Team , which is a student internship program dedicated to creating, implementing and leading a variety of projects aimed at establishing sustainable practices. The group created the first recycling program in student union buildings and founded the first organic, local, student-run cooperative produce stand on campus. She found out that there was a lack of money to fund certain projects that help the environment. The Green Initiative Fund which is signed by students raises money to fund those projects. I think that she went outside of self-interest, because she realizes that self-interest only makes more problems for the world. She was very in-your face to try to per sway people to go with her ideas, which shows her dedication to the environment.