Question 1.

I think it is more important to be a person who performs good acts rather than to just be a good person. Being a good person is alright and all but you’re not really doing any good to anything, you are just good. I would rather be the person fighting for a good cause rather than the person thinking about it but not doing anything. By performing acts for good you are helping to create a movement; the more people involved in a movement, the bigger the impact it has on what you’re fighting for. I think the end justifies the means because doing the action and the consequence of the action both have great impacts, but the consequence of the action is the most important part. Usually the consequence of the action is good. I like in the text how it says that cutting down trees can save other trees which justifies the means. Cutting down trees that are dangerous to other healthy trees and animals/people is important.

Question 4.

I believe that ecosystems matter for their own sake as well as ours so I guess I’m a little anthopocentric. Without thriving ecosystems we wouldn’t be able to live. We can’t just turn every forest into an industrial area or tear it down for wood, but we can make some of these places into parks so that we conserve the land and can take care of it. I also believe some forests can be used for cutting wood but by deciding how to give and take correctly we can help ourselves and the environment. I also don’t see a problem with creating roads through forests so that we can have scenic rides through the woods every now and again. By seeing forests in such a way some people may think a little differently about what it means to conserve forests.

Question 6.

I believe that my life is worth the same as everybody else’s. In some cases I believe that my life would be worth less than others but this would be mainly for family or dire events. I would help any person, animal, or ecosystem to my greatest ability as long as I wasn’t threatening my own life unless it was something really important to me, like I said before, something would have to be really bad before I’d want to risk my own life. One example would be an animal crossing a busy road and having a hard time doing so: there have been plenty of cases where people stopped their cars and got out to help said animal and wound up dying from being hit by another passing car. I honestly probably would not get out of the car to help any animal just because of the thought of that. My life is worth just as much as the other people who haven’t stopped to save the animal and I wouldn’t risk myself for something like that unless it was absolutely horrible.