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CEV 2ESO - 05 Freedom and rules - Contenido educativo
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Freedom and rules
What is the difference between people and other animals?
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Maybe you thought about intelligence, and yes, it is true that we are more intelligent than animals,
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but there is also a very important difference, because people are free while animals follow their instinct.
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Think about this difference for a moment.
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Animals act from necessity.
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What happens to them is coded in their DNA, in their genes.
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That's what we call instinct, a prefixed behavior that cannot be changed.
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If a lion is very hungry, it will kill because it needs to eat.
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It would be absurd to punish the lion sending it to jail because it killed another animal,
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because the lion is simply following its instinct.
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Acting from necessity, doing what is necessary to do in order to eat.
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But people are different.
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We don't act from necessity.
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We act freely.
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We can decide what to do.
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This intelligence we have can also help us to decide what to do.
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So we have free will, that is, the ability to decide what to do, the capacity to choose our actions.
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This creates an enormous difference between people and animals,
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because we can't be punished and blamed for what we did,
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because we could have chosen to act in a different way.
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Freedom implies responsibility.
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If you're free, you decide what to do, then you're responsible of your choices.
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What does the word responsibility mean?
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The word responsibility comes from respond,
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and this means that we have the necessity of giving an explanation,
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a justification of our choices.
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And it also means that we have to face the consequences of what we did,
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repairing the possible harm that our actions did to other people.
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The fact that people can choose what to do,
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the fact that we're free, creates a lot of problems,
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because freedom can interfere with another people.
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So there are a lot of problems, a lot of conflicts in our social coexistence,
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and they come because we're free agents, because we have freedom.
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That's why we need rules to organize our social coexistence.
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We need norms to determine what is right and what is wrong.
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But there are different types of norms, of rules,
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and it's important that you understand this difference.
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There are, on the one hand, moral rules, and on the other hand, legal rules.
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Moral rules, morality, is made by your conscience.
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Moral rules are the rules that you make by yourself,
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that tell you what you personally think that is right or wrong.
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So these rules are autonomous, they are made by you.
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And if you don't obey them, what happens?
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Nobody is going to punish you, but think about it for a while.
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You want to be an honest person.
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What happens if you tell a lie?
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Nobody punishes you, but you feel bad, you feel regret and remorse,
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because you broke your own moral rules.
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Legal rules are very different.
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Legal rules are not made by you, they are made by the authorities,
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the government, the principal of the school, your teacher, your parents.
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So they are heteronymous, they are not autonomous rules.
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And if you break these rules, you can be punished,
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because the law is for everybody, it is not personal.
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- Autor/es:
- César Prestel
- Subido por:
- César Pedro P.
- Licencia:
- Reconocimiento - No comercial - Compartir igual
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- Fecha:
- 21 de julio de 2023 - 11:21
- Visibilidad:
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- IES CERVANTES
- Duración:
- 04′ 03″
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