He explains that since 1996, men women and children of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been raped, beaten and enslaved in the process of obtaining the Tantalum. In the TEDTalk titled, Fair Trade Cell Phone, by Bandi Mbubi, discusses the brutal behavior that occurs in the Democratic Republic of Congo in order to get Tantalum, a heat conductor that is a necessary part in the production of cell phones. Especially as children, there is not much they can do because they feel powerless, so it is up to the adults that have been aware of the issue to make a change. ” One can conclude that the children felt morally obligated to do the do right thing, not because of a tangible reward or even special recognition, which is the concept of hypothetical imperative. They would like to do something for the child. As stated in the story, “They feel anger, outrage, impotence, despite all the explanations.
The children can connect because they child is one of them. These memories are cruel form of torture.Įven when the other children saw the child they were furious at the city for knowling keeping a child locked away against its own will. It is not right to let a child experience a life and then rip it away from it, then let it be haunted by the voice of it’s mother and the touch of warm sunlight on it’s skin. This is only to say because a child can contribute more to society than an animal can. A child’s life is considered more valuable than an animals life. All of the gruesome acts of against the child, which consisted of malnutrition, emotional abuse and physical abuse could be done to an animal. So, what if I replaced the child for an animal? Since the child is being treated like an animal, it should be an animal they are mistreating. Now, we do know that animals have the same, if not, similar capabilities and there is an abundance of food. If the city operates off of inhumane treatment of a living creature, does that mean it must be a human? If we look closely, the child is living and responsive, just like an animal. I know that I would not want to be mistreated and stuck in a broom closet, so I would not want anyone else to experience that. To treat others they way that you wished to be treated. I feel that I have a civic duty to do the right thing and help the child escape. A categorical imperative implies doing the right thing regardless of the consequences that await. I would choose to follow the categorical imperative, which is a moral law. I can only imagine the pain of the child and its parents. To know that a child younger than my little brother, suffering alone in a dark room, sitting in it’s waste, with little to no human interaction, would make me feel like a monster.
If I were a citizen of Omelas I would do everything in my power to help the child escape the miserable life it was forced into.
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