Dunno why suddenly rmb the GP lesson again. Anyway video clip is much more impressive that the boring talking.
Scenario: Ms June conducted a quick survey on who is support abortion. Most of us chose to support abortion. Then she showed us the video clip the Hard Truth. After the show, she asked us whether we have changed your opinion as write that down. !!!!!!!!!
Is that she thought our opinions could be changed by a single clip? I have to concede that the video is very powerful. It made me feel sick, at least very uncomfortable. But how can it change a person’s opinion instantaneously? If we can be changed by that clip, maybe another one about the tortured life of a young mother can change our opinion again. Man cannot the straws in the wind, waving from one side to the other.
It cannot be denied that the clip is something true. But there are simply too many truths we have never seen before with the potential to change our views fundamentally. And sometimes it is better not to show them to the public. For example the documentary of war should not be shown because the whole process is very cruel. If that kind of video is shown to the public, democratic country will not be able to participate in warfare. However, we all know that slapping a student in the class is apparently unacceptable although it is much less cruel than waging a war. But in the end we should accept war sometimes and cannot accept slapping of a student. Double measures are practiced here. As we need to practice different measures for different things, and some people may not accept it (at least it seems unacceptable to me in the first look). So we better not let them know the truth to let them make the correct judgment.
PS: I know the above passage is difficult to understand, (mostly cuz of my poor language ability) especially the last paragraph.
