For this week's weblog assignment, we would like you to consider the Law
& Order episode we watched on Tuesday from two contrasting points
of view. To do this, you have three options:
1. You can think (and write) about what Mill and Stephen would have said about the various actions and arguments in the episode, for instance, how they might each view the dispute between the mother and the disc jockey about personal responsibility, freedom of speech, and the part that the law should play with respect to each.
2. You can think (and write) about the issues in the episode in light of these related and contradictory claims “A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen"* vs. "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws" (Plato)
3. You can think (and write) about the issues in the episode using your own set of two (or more) contrasting viewpoint as a lens through which to analyze them.
Please write the equivalent of a few paragraphs, post them to the weblog, and be ready to talk about them in class.
For your reference, the episode we watched was titled, "Obscene" and originally aired 12 October 2004.
* This is actually taken from a quote by Thomas Jefferson, but it is incomplete here, and full quote imparts a very different meaning than the portion I've quoted here on its own.
1. You can think (and write) about what Mill and Stephen would have said about the various actions and arguments in the episode, for instance, how they might each view the dispute between the mother and the disc jockey about personal responsibility, freedom of speech, and the part that the law should play with respect to each.
2. You can think (and write) about the issues in the episode in light of these related and contradictory claims “A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen"* vs. "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws" (Plato)
3. You can think (and write) about the issues in the episode using your own set of two (or more) contrasting viewpoint as a lens through which to analyze them.
Please write the equivalent of a few paragraphs, post them to the weblog, and be ready to talk about them in class.
For your reference, the episode we watched was titled, "Obscene" and originally aired 12 October 2004.
* This is actually taken from a quote by Thomas Jefferson, but it is incomplete here, and full quote imparts a very different meaning than the portion I've quoted here on its own.
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