The three, “I Believe” essays which I listened to were: : “Be Cool,” by Christian Mc.Bride, “Untold Stories of Kindness,” by Ernesto Haibi, and “We’re all Different in Our Own Ways,” by Joshua Yuchasz.
“Be Cool,” was about how stressed out people are now days and how Christian thinks people need to cool down more. “Untold Stories of Kindness,” was written by an American soldier who had to fight in Iraq. This story was the most moving for me, because Haibi talked about how Iraqi citizens were willing to help out in fights when there were no police, Iraqi military, and in short, no authority around to help, when over 100 people died from car bombs. Haibi talked about how he thought people shouldn’t only work together when there is an imminent danger, which is what he experienced in Iraq. “We’re all Different in Our Own Ways,” was about how a Godzilla obsession Yuchasz has had since 3rd grade has made him ostracized every year. These three essays were on topics which had near to no similarities. The only thing I could think of was that they all had to do with treating others with more decency.
I thought of, “The Singer Solution To World Poverty,” when I heard “Untold Stories of Kindness.” This was because “TSSTWP” mentions how it is an obligation to help others and when you don’t, it’s more like just killing that person. Since “Untold Stories of Kindness,” mentioned how everybody, regardless of beliefs or religion started working together to save lives of others, that was when the imminent need for action to be taken set in. It supported Singer’s idea of how most people will only say that action needs to be taken when they are there, watching that kid of the train tracks get run over, and not when hundreds of thousands, if not hundreds of millions of children die everyday from avoidable, and somewhat affordable costs.
There were no real contradictions I could think of between any of the essays and any of the other written pieces we have discussed in English this semester. It was particularly hard to even find a similarity.
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A Godzilla obsession? Maybe you could find similarities if you thought about the moral values that each of the three people were trying to teach. Like mine, at first I thought it would be difficult finding similarities between a cool black man, a college professor with a thing for pastrami, and a nobel prize winning chemist writting about "The Tense Middle". But I realized that their beliefs were ones that they thought would lead to a happier lifestyle by being cool, marbling your life like pastrami, and having neither surpluss or deficit of anything in your life. Well, whatever.
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