If you had to betray....
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From: eL Lay, SoCal
Originally posted by HappySnatch
it would depend on how my day was going
it would depend on how my day was going
Originally posted by HappySnatch
if i had a shitty day and felt the world was aggrevating me, I wouldn't mind screwing over other people.
if i had a shitty day and felt the world was aggrevating me, I wouldn't mind screwing over other people.
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Originally posted by 2002civicex
In the following passage, EM Forster argues that personal relations are more important than causes or patriotism. read the passage carefully then write an essay agreeing or disagreeing with forster's view.
i hate the idea of causes, and if i had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, i hope is hould have the guts to betray my country. such a choice may scandalise the modern reader, and he may stretch out his patriotic had to the telephone at once and ring up the police. it would not have shocked Dante, though. Dante places brutus and cassius in the lowest circle of hell because they had chosen to betray their friend Julius Caeser rather than their country Rome.
that the question? i had to do the same thing for my ap english class last week. :chuckles:
In the following passage, EM Forster argues that personal relations are more important than causes or patriotism. read the passage carefully then write an essay agreeing or disagreeing with forster's view.
i hate the idea of causes, and if i had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, i hope is hould have the guts to betray my country. such a choice may scandalise the modern reader, and he may stretch out his patriotic had to the telephone at once and ring up the police. it would not have shocked Dante, though. Dante places brutus and cassius in the lowest circle of hell because they had chosen to betray their friend Julius Caeser rather than their country Rome.
that the question? i had to do the same thing for my ap english class last week. :chuckles:
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Kinda depends on the situation really.
If it put the lives of millions of people in immediate danger than yes I would betray my friend. There would be no point to saving one person and sacrificing a greater number of people in most situations.
If it were for something that was already done and held no imminent threat or justifiable threat to the greater number than I guess I would betray country.
I would not directly contribute to his betrayal of country but simply keep my mouth shut if any questions came my way.
If it put the lives of millions of people in immediate danger than yes I would betray my friend. There would be no point to saving one person and sacrificing a greater number of people in most situations.
If it were for something that was already done and held no imminent threat or justifiable threat to the greater number than I guess I would betray country.
I would not directly contribute to his betrayal of country but simply keep my mouth shut if any questions came my way.
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From: Charlotte, NC
Originally posted by Nightshade
Kinda depends on the situation really.
If it put the lives of millions of people in immediate danger than yes I would betray my friend. There would be no point to saving one person and sacrificing a greater number of people in most situations.
If it were for something that was already done and held no imminent threat or justifiable threat to the greater number than I guess I would betray country.
Kinda depends on the situation really.
If it put the lives of millions of people in immediate danger than yes I would betray my friend. There would be no point to saving one person and sacrificing a greater number of people in most situations.
If it were for something that was already done and held no imminent threat or justifiable threat to the greater number than I guess I would betray country.
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Originally posted by Nightshade
Kinda depends on the situation really.
If it put the lives of millions of people in immediate danger than yes I would betray my friend. There would be no point to saving one person and sacrificing a greater number of people in most situations.
If it were for something that was already done and held no imminent threat or justifiable threat to the greater number than I guess I would betray country.
I would not directly contribute to his betrayal of country but simply keep my mouth shut if any questions came my way.
Kinda depends on the situation really.
If it put the lives of millions of people in immediate danger than yes I would betray my friend. There would be no point to saving one person and sacrificing a greater number of people in most situations.
If it were for something that was already done and held no imminent threat or justifiable threat to the greater number than I guess I would betray country.
I would not directly contribute to his betrayal of country but simply keep my mouth shut if any questions came my way.
but i grease from there
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Betray "my" country? My country betrays me, and all the other drones who live here, my mismanageing money and simply taking more to compensate. They wage pointless wars in other countries and spend billions of dollars to do it, under the false giuse that they are "protecting" us, while americans die everyday cuz they cant afford the medicine to stay alive, they same medicine produced by publicly subsidized pharmaceutical companies whose prices are gauranteed by the sham they call the "world trade orgainization" which allows these companies to enjoy the freedoms of US commerce, while skirting the laws that are supposed to make it fair. The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.
To betray this country would mearly be returning the favor.
To betray this country would mearly be returning the favor.
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Originally posted by lttletimmy
ditto, if people would die if i betrayed the country, then i'd betray the friend, but if it were something that wouldn't ruin lives then i'd betray the country
ditto, if people would die if i betrayed the country, then i'd betray the friend, but if it were something that wouldn't ruin lives then i'd betray the country
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From: NoVA
Originally posted by I Killed Tupac
Betray "my" country? My country betrays me, and all the other drones who live here, my mismanageing money and simply taking more to compensate. They wage pointless wars in other countries and spend billions of dollars to do it, under the false giuse that they are "protecting" us, while americans die everyday cuz they cant afford the medicine to stay alive, they same medicine produced by publicly subsidized pharmaceutical companies whose prices are gauranteed by the sham they call the "world trade orgainization" which allows these companies to enjoy the freedoms of US commerce, while skirting the laws that are supposed to make it fair. The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.
To betray this country would mearly be returning the favor.
Betray "my" country? My country betrays me, and all the other drones who live here, my mismanageing money and simply taking more to compensate. They wage pointless wars in other countries and spend billions of dollars to do it, under the false giuse that they are "protecting" us, while americans die everyday cuz they cant afford the medicine to stay alive, they same medicine produced by publicly subsidized pharmaceutical companies whose prices are gauranteed by the sham they call the "world trade orgainization" which allows these companies to enjoy the freedoms of US commerce, while skirting the laws that are supposed to make it fair. The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.
To betray this country would mearly be returning the favor.
but i grease from there
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Originally posted by /^Blackmagik^\
it pains me to see opinions like this. i personally feel that anyone can rise above poverty. my family did it. with enough drive and ambition you can attain almost any goal. "there is no try or try not, there is only do or do not"
it pains me to see opinions like this. i personally feel that anyone can rise above poverty. my family did it. with enough drive and ambition you can attain almost any goal. "there is no try or try not, there is only do or do not"
