How appeals affect us in ethics

Learning about philosophy takes a lot of self awareness and in my HCOM-200 class which is about Critical thinking and ethics but to succeed you need to be mindful of these the five main Appeals of Time, Place, Body, Gender, Race. In this class you learn about seeing other perspectives within how others see things as well as how you see things for yourself and also learn other ways of thinking so you don't become close minded. One of our conversations that the class had was one about politics and the decisions our president is doing to push out anyone who is seen as non-american. We had to ask question to ourselves like "What makes an American?" "Does Race matter when determining who is American" "Can someone even become American" "Does our Political figure only can choose for us". When you get to read M. Jimmie Killingsworth book called Appeals In Modern Rhetoric you begin to see how his Appeals in Time, Place, Body, Gender, Race take affect when asking these questions because they relate to it in someone and forces you to critically think about what is right and what is wrong or if there isn't any side to choose from and thinking about all this should how complex the class can get as well as how this book is used in almost everything.

In every assignment in critical thinking and ethics it helps to always know what appeals go into every question that is asked. M. Jimmie Killingsworth says "Ethical Protocols emerge that taboo certain acts of self-serving and of group survival." What this means for me is that we often narrow our mind without even seeing what we are doing and the affect it has on other when we only think for ourselves. This is closely related to Body, Gender, and Race for the way we waited to self preserve an idea that we have and anything outside of if is wrong for some people. There is always a pro and a con when you look at it from an outside perspective without being bias to a certain side but seeing to understand this also helps you see how much Appeals to Time, Place, Body, Gender, Race has in our daily lives when we make decisions and thoughts.