Post by ETypeRegymon on Mar 20, 2016 13:54:58 GMT
the morals of the individual?
I guess it's as good as a time as any to put my eq here. Especially with The Story of An Hour coming along.
I'm going to say no, because there are times where the majority opinion is incorrect. Even though the minority can be as flawed or even more flawed (as seen in Hamlet, where the main character risks an entire country by attempting to kill its current king), the majority is not without its faults. It just happens to be more dangerous because it's the majority, so when society happens to be wrong, the rest will follow regardless. And then there was slavery. Also, there's the trial of Sarah Good, where the court agrees that a person is a witch with little actual evidence, sending her to her death. And finally, there's Louise Mallard. In that story, society expected her to be sad that her husband's dead. But, she felt free. Free from having to be subservient to her husband. However, no one ever knew how she felt because she died when her husband turned out to be alive. Everyone just uncoolumed she died from joy. Society couldn't be more wrong in this case, and she will forever be misunderstood (in the story's universe). And misunderstanding someone is a grave error in my eyes, even though it technically isn't as bad as sending likely innocent people to their deaths.
I guess it's as good as a time as any to put my eq here. Especially with The Story of An Hour coming along.
I'm going to say no, because there are times where the majority opinion is incorrect. Even though the minority can be as flawed or even more flawed (as seen in Hamlet, where the main character risks an entire country by attempting to kill its current king), the majority is not without its faults. It just happens to be more dangerous because it's the majority, so when society happens to be wrong, the rest will follow regardless. And then there was slavery. Also, there's the trial of Sarah Good, where the court agrees that a person is a witch with little actual evidence, sending her to her death. And finally, there's Louise Mallard. In that story, society expected her to be sad that her husband's dead. But, she felt free. Free from having to be subservient to her husband. However, no one ever knew how she felt because she died when her husband turned out to be alive. Everyone just uncoolumed she died from joy. Society couldn't be more wrong in this case, and she will forever be misunderstood (in the story's universe). And misunderstanding someone is a grave error in my eyes, even though it technically isn't as bad as sending likely innocent people to their deaths.
