Ideas
1)Ethics of Real Estate Development – I am very interested in real estate development as a future career. I would love to know all aspects of the business, and I think learning about the ethics/opinions of real estate developers would be an interesting topic. From what I’ve heard in life and even movies, some think real estate developers are greedy snobs who look to build buildings to maximize profit, whereas others are trying to solve the problem of housing for everyone. I’m very curious about people’s different viewpoints on this topic.
2)Should one vote in the primary election – I am also interested in looking at others’ viewpoints on whether we as Americans should vote in primary elections. I ask this because I personally struggled with this thought in recent years, given that the candidates we’ve had to choose between were so extremely divided, rarely agreeing on anything, and being too different from each other, in both good and bad ways. This topic interests me even more now since for the first time in my life, this year, I will be able to vote!
3)When is one obliged to perform a charitable act – I know some people who always look to give money to the homeless person on the side of the street, or but some fruit from a vendor on the side of the road with their family. Others I know never stop to give, for the most part, no matter what. I would like to know more about what other people think of when one should lend a helping hand to those in need.
Idea 2 article – https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/opinion/not-voting-elections.html
This is an opinion article of a Michigan man explaining why he won’t be voting in the upcoming election. He talks about how his singular vote doesn’t make a difference, since the margins between who won and lost is never in the single digits, but is really much higher. Furthermore, he says that his belief in not voting isn’t like a plague that will convince everyone not to vote, completely eliminating voting from our political system. People will always vote, so if some don’t it doesn’t make a difference. He also notes that voting is more about rooting for something than it is for wanting a specific party to one. It’s about feeling involved.
Idea 2 quote – “Surely if you thought a candidate was a harbinger of the end of democracy, you would urge anyone you thought likely to support him to “just do anything else.”
Idea 3 article – https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/22/bitching-about-ethics-of-giving-money-to-homeless-helps-no-one
This is an opinion article about what one should do if concerned about what a homeless person does with the money they give them. In short, the author believes that if you give money to a homeless person, that’s the end of the exchange. What they do with what you give them is entirely up to them. Whether it be food or drugs, it doesn’t matter – it’s not up to us to decide how they live their lives. Alternatively, if one truly cared so much about the homeless population, they should donate to charity, where resources for homeless people could get appropriate funding to actually help them, versus gambling and hoping that the homeless themselves will do what is “right” with others money.
Idea 3 quote – “If you prefer a particular option, just shut up and take it.”