Final Blog

The weeks of 11 and 13 were mainly of interest to me. I like discussing the differences of cultures and religions. It is interesting that there are so many differences in religion but yet some are close in relation to each other. It is hard to understand other’s religion when you do not know anything about it. That goes along with anything though in that if you do not know anything about it, how are you going to understand. The only thing you can do to understand it is learn and ask questions.

I do not particularly like talking about Facebook because I think that there is just so much unnecessary things that take place on there. I like discussing why I do not particularly care for it though and that is because I just feel that it is so fake. As I discussed before, I feel like it is a song that Brad Paisley sang a couple years back called ”Online”. so many people have there real life and then they have their online life. The two are totally different and it is actually quite scary if you think about it. Chatting online is nothing like talking to a person face to face or on the phone. So many things can be taken out of perspective so easily I feel when it is broadcasted through a site like Facebook. It is so hard to believe everything you hear or read about friends doing when it is on Facebook. Maybe I am just ignorant or insecure if you want to call it that. I just feel these sites are out of control and cannot be taken serious sometimes.

The readings also brought up video games and I thought this was interesting too. I think that video gaming is almost out of control. People all over the world can play each other and even talk to each other while playing the game. The video games are so real but still so far from reality. An example could be these war games. I think that it is so hard to relate real life war into a video game. I think that the video game and real life war is so far from what actually happens. This also brings up my next point about robotics in war. I guess that is the new age of war but I do not think that is how war should be handled. There is no emotional attachment involved with robotics and the killing of people. This meaning that, how is that person controlling the robot going to react after they have killed that other person. Are they going to feel anything or feel regret? What if these robots were to end up taking the wrong lives of others? Like, innocent people that lived around or even in the war. Wh o would be at fault if the happened to accidentally get killed. I hope that it would be someone’s fault and not just get brushed under the rug. This goes back to the emotional standpoint. Would there be an attachment to those people. I think there would be but just not as great as there would be if a human had killed them instead of a robot.