Opposition- What is the true solution?
Perhaps the opposition that is most obvious in my life right now, is the opposition between students and thieves. In Middlebrook, the residence hall where I live, 4 computers have been stolen in the past week alone. Now I am not talking about missing pens and pencils, these are thousand dollar machines that people are walking out with because of how our society is deigned. Now that last sentence may seem far fetched, but if you think about it, our society has been shaped to create many social oppositions. For example, we want people to not steal our things, and yet we let random people into the building without even thinking about it, because society dictates that it would be rude to shut the door in their face, just to make sure they have their card and live there. Over 80 percent of the time, I don’t have to use my u card to enter my residence hall. Determining the solution to this opposition though becomes very tricky because it is a social problem. Do we shut the door, demand that each person prove they live in the door, change to more sophisticated locks (because they are being picked), or do we continue to hold that door open, because no one wants to dig in their backpack for their card, and deep down, you would rather give people the benefit of the doubt? Does society have to become more strict because of the few that decide to take advantage of the system? Other example of society’s duality or inherent opposition is “tell the truth, but never say something that will hurt other people’s feelings,� or “freedom or religion and speech� and yet people are ridiculed everyday for what religion they believe in, or the political rally they participated last Monday. In order to solve these societal oppositions, we must decide what side is more important and deal with the consequences. But in the case of the computers, our current solution is not working, because students cant afford to deal with consequences.