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Published: 2017-09-12
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBC-3k0KFv4
if you tell it it's the latest trend you know western wrong date by all these ethical products you can buy unethical tee shirt and if a cop car perhaps even the second beer a Senate ethics researcher you might think that I'm free adult but actually I'm not I'm a bit to where it the problem penis the products are not at all pony we humans are we
are responsible for plundering what's right and what's wrong and trying to act accordingly and other pro amis that almost nothing piece on ambiguously right or wrong I think this I think I think the trend reflects our passion for black and white solutions but unfortunately the correct ethical and so some rare species in twenty first many of our ethical choices are actually not between right and wrong
but between kut and another kind of cute prosperity preventing climate change cheaper products for human rights health or environment fumbling all work sometimes if indeed it feels that killed follows you whatever you do it's tempting to stick turn away from the problem sent to us to nothing that consolation however it is that we don't have to become in Secaucus but here's today's at the talent is
not so much about knowing the right answers it's more about preserving the feeling that what we need to do matters it's about not being paralyzed by guilt and powerlessness and it's about noticing our shared humanity even strangers when I was a girl I had an imaginary friend her name was Kristie numb and she lived in a place called got I had a really bad speaking impediment
so imagine saying over and over again screen across well once one day she gave me a call she told me that her home had been dropped thieves have taken all sorts of valuable things and now she felt really sat I was horrified for Christ and how old looking back from where I sit now I think I remember this incident so vividly because it had an important
function I was at the age where kids start to learn that you con tape products toys without asking permission so I started using my imagination to reflect when this quite basic difficult notion I argue that we should also adults take imagination more seriously we use it whenever we re or raw you don't watch movies or listen to the stories of other people out there about our
lives to ten basically whenever we think about things that are not present at the moment but we often think imagination only as an escape route from reality we forget that imagination also has the power to shape reality think about the biblical story of good Samaritan some of you may know it's it's a story about offering unconditional helps to go unchecked strange imagination allows you to picture
yourself as if you were in the story I had a strange track push should I help a stranger our parent my dear it's making a noise thanks not just toss it to Kate Pat talking about good Samaritan if you need a lawyer for fun so you know research compare it those fiends who know the story of good Samaritan and those who don't know and guess what
those who know me believe it much more strongly helping the underprivileged is important so think about the good Samaritan and my friend Kristina quickly at about I think that imagination can serve as the catalytic to be able to act ethically we first have to be able to figure out what are the possible ways to act and how they promote compassion and justice and their imagination helpless
through imagination can try new ideas and values and waste expressed the French philosopher Politika put an imagination is such a powerful tool in Essex because Collison to play all aspects of humanity not just a rational mind but also means emotions and hope and despair imagination also engages us in it's more than just or numbers great news it is you can train imagine feed it by exposing
yourself to new perspectives a great way to do that is to meet people who you wouldn't otherwise neat as a part of my research I interviewed bank employees they had devoted thirteen a philanthropic pro checked when they met and talked marginalized young people many of those young people suffered from knowing that it's our mental health issues or lack of support some of them had packed severe
financial difficulties and before those encounters with the young people many bank employees thought that financial problems are mainly caused by recklessness but I still listen to the life stories of those young people they realized that actually there are real reasons for financial issue they're not caused by carelessness and now as a result some bank employees set that they're more compassionate to the customer other sense that
they look up to society in a whole new way so what I'm saying is that perhaps the greatest power of imagination lies in its ability to transform us makes us revise our thoughts choice not experienced this myself as well I grew up in a religious revivalist movement many people would consider its norms quite extreme and it's obsession about scenes left its wounds for many yes I
could only feel bitterness to Austin and then a couple of years ago I read a book fictional it was a story of a woman who had been hurt in a similar movement but in another much worse way it wasn't my story but it had an impact after all the wrongdoings of all the hurt and all the pain the woman into noble still valued but in that
movement this example also given this makes me think that I can also let go of the hatred so as you have noticed thinking imagination thinking ethics true imagination teachers from trend to talk one at the talent it reminds you that's an ethical tee shirt doesn't make ethical choices but you should imagination makes you think about the consequences of your choices and rethink what kind of person
you want to be so if you want to strengthens its foundation if your ethic oddity train and feet your imagination box no matter what we do with confiscate those difficult ethical decisions those excruciating moments of loot will remain a part of being human and in those moments imagination can offer something the physical products come imagination can open on her Aisin hope lifts you up the paralyzing
