Is it subjective or a universal truth about what constitutes “good” and “evil”?

It is both subjective and universal truth about what constitutes a good and evil. It is subjective because believing in good and evil is different from person to person, culture to culture, society to society, religion to religion. It mainly depends on one’s point of view. Religious people believe abortion is evil or bad work. However, other people are not agree with them (it depend on the situation). For example, if a fifteen years old girl become pregnant than it would be difficult for her to lead a normal life like other girl at her age. It is also very difficult being a mother at this age because a mother has many responsibilities. In addition, she does not have the ability to fulfill her responsibilities properly because of her age. Beside of this she has to think about her future. Therefore, in this case abortion is a better solution for her. However, the religious people see abortion as an evil or bad activity because for them abortion means committing a murder of a human. Nevertheless, if we see form the girl’s point of view than abortion is a good solution.
Crime, theft, cheating, robbery, rapes all of these are considering as evil activities. People from all over the world no matter where are they from , no matter which religion or culture they follow all of them are agree and believe that rape, kidnap , war all of these are bad or evil activities. In this sense, it is universal truth about what constitutes good and evil.

What is the nature of good?

Every one have different point of view about the nature of good. In general, the good work means not harm anyone physically, mentally or do any kind of activities that can cause damage to anyone. If people do anything that help other people of the society or do any kind of work (without any purpose) only to help others, all of these kinds of activities would be consider as good work. If anyone commit crime or do something that goes against law and you as a person prevent them from their activities than it also consider as a good work. However, it is hard to say exactly what the nature of good is. It could be different from people to people. Because different people grow up in different society, in different culture and they might follow different religion and different law. Therefore, their point of view about the nature of good is also different. For example in Aerobic country ( in Arab) if any one theft and caught, than according to their law the thief will lose (they will cut the thief hands) their hands. Of course if someone steals something than they should get punishment. However, cutting someone hand would be too much punishment. But in their country that is the law and in their eyes this is the good way to prevent any kind of criminal activities. The nature of good is also different to religion point of view. Budhism people believe killing and hunting any kind of animal is a sin and act of evil. There for they avoid meat and fish. However, other religious people for example Muslim People do not have any problem with meat or fish. More over it is one the duty of Muslim’s (only who have the ability) to cut cow, camel, goat or any kind of animal (not pig or any kind of animal like that) in eid. Here we can see two different religion people have totally two different points of view about it. What one groups see as a sin or evil activity, others see the same thing as a duty or good work. Removal of garbage from public place, show path to old, blind, or children, helping poor people through money, food, shelter, or education all of these work is consider as universal good work.

Adolescents and the Media(Informal Tone)

In this essay, the author said parents and paediatricians are so busy with their work that they do not have enough time to ask their children about media nor for themselves to watch it or listen it. Media affect teens in different ways. For example, media violence related to bulling. Media influence teens for suicide, sex, drugs, over eating etc. It also cause attention problem. “According to the first wave of long-term Growing Up in Australia study, infacts are already spending nearly 1.5 hours a day watching television, and 4-5-year-olds are spending about a their total play time(2.1 hours) watching television.’’ This is an example that author gave us to show that how media effect our children and teens. At the beginning he talked about the problems that cause by media and than he discussed and gave some solution of this problem. According to the Royal Australasian College, paediatricians should give more information about how media affect children and give some suggestion to parents in order to solve this kind of problem. They should also talk to the moviemaker so that they (the moviemaker) consider this serious issue. Parents, paediartricians and government have to work together to get rid of this problem.

All of the information that provided by the author made it an excellent piece. Every paragraph of the essay was equally important. Because each of them contain different evidence, statistics information, example. All of this information helps him to prove his point. Its structure was quite different from other three. He used subtitle, which help us to understand each of his point.

Even though he did not use many rhetorical devices, his strong information, and evidence replace that gape. Rhetorical question and repetition mainly used in this piece. “ Finally, both parents and paediatricians need to lobby governments for more funding for research into the crucial areas of how the media affect children and teens, what can be done to maximise pro-social media and protect against harmful media’s influence, better programming for young people, and more funding for media education campaigns and media education programs in schools.’’ Here he repeat the word ‘’for’’. It does not seem very informal to me because the author did not address the audience directly but he used reader inclusion and first person.