Monday, October 13, 2014

To be Unbiased?

Today, we touched on the concept of, is it possible to be completely unbiased? I believe that it is completely impossible for someone to be unbiased. There is always something in the back of peoples' minds that influence the way they think of people, even if people attempt to think positively of others, that counts as a bias. There have been many cases that we have viewed in class that show this, namely the Rodney King case. That particular case was moved to another location to avoid media coverage bias for the officers that were tried, but they moved to a location where they were mostly conservative and more likely to favor the police and put a negative bias against Rodney King. So, in order to avoid a bias, they moved to a new location that automatically had another bias. Bias comes from our standards in morals and ethics as well as the society we come from and the experiences had in it. For a person to be completely unbiased, they would have to have no moral standards, no experience in society, and masters of controlling their minds. It is because humans can't help but to formulate opinions and assumptions that I believe that being completely unbiased is not possible.

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