my moral situation:

When i was in the 7th grade in Sudan. i was in my science exam and i was stuck on a certain question, my science teacher saw i was struggling and quickly told me the right answer. i wrote it down but felt guilty afterwards i knew it was cheating but i tried to convince my self that it wasn't that bad because my teacher was the one who told me the answer. i moved on and finished my exam, but before handing in my exam i scratched out the answer. i had decided that it was wrong and that even though the teacher was the one who told me the answer i would still have an unfair advantage. i still don't understand why the teacher did that, on one hand it was empathetic of her and i felt that it was coming from a good place, but it has put me in an awkward situation. in terms of morals it is hard to tell where the teacher was coming from and it is hard to tell weather what she was doing was wrong or not. cheating is always wrong but it made me wonder about a grey area. i wondered if anything could be 100% wrong. i feel like everything is circumstantial. there are things that are just inhumane and unarguably "WRONG". but there are somethings that need to be looked at with a bit of an open heart, and people need to learn to be more sympathetic and understanding of peoples situations, because in times of desperation you may find yourself doing something that is morally questionable in order to survive, your going to have to push someone down in order to get ahead, your going to take shortcuts and do things that will make you unhappy with yourself at times but you do them anyway because life is a series of difficult decisions and in order for one to be successful in life sometimes the ugly path must be taken, i am in no way saying that you should kill or steal or do anything like that because what i am talking about is very different. i am just saying that as people we must not be ignorant, we must not judge others based o past mistakes they have made and we should be able to differentiate between acts of disparity and acts of immorals or cruelty and we need to stop seeing things as being completely black and white because in reality thats just not the way they are. i chose not to use the answer that day and i am proud of myself, but im sure someone else who was allot more desperate and unprepared would have, and if they did, would it really be that wrong......?

views on craverns argument.

I think that the argument presented by Cravern is valid because the premises on which he presented his argument is true. if we do not act in order to prevent global warming it will end in either catastrophe or minimum losses. and if we do act on it, it will result in economic losses but will ultimately protect us from a potential disaster.