I was finishing up class. So fed up with college and desperate for a passing grade. Thought about coming up with a persuasive way of asking my teacher if he'd be able to pass me for the simple fact that I knew for sure i would not become a persuasive teacher in any shape of form. The guts were not in me to tell him that but the thought wondered on the top of my skull every day of classes I had no interest in. This teacher of mine was very old school but hipped. I guess he had learned "Swag" from other students. I was told that he'd be a hard professor but I always take these professors because I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, meaning that I could have a different set of opinions about the teacher. Besides, according to the students I know, all students are bad professors or hard if they give homework. That, I never understood and actually felt guilty for them. Maybe that's why I'd always ended up taking them.
This professor of mines, asked us a question. "Would you rob a bank if you could get a way with it?" I said yes. I didn't feel bad and everyone looked at me and judge me but I had my reasoning. The next question he asked kept me looking up the sealing and rubbing the area underneath my bottom lip. He asked, "Would you take an "A" for a class grade but not learn anything or take an "F" but leave out the class with a thorough knowledge of the course's material?" At first I pondered and thought about needing a passing grade to graduate but then I thought about graduating but not being able to apply those skills being that I wouldn't have known them. I did not answer but I learned something that day.
I can honestly say I would not cheat if my teacher went out to have a quick bite and left the class on the day of exams. I changed my mind about robbing a bank if I could get away. Apparently, he said that there was no right or wrong answer. I hear that all the time when writing a paper on a controversial issue but he was actually trying to explain something else, something completely different. He gave us new insight on motives. The minute he said that word, I thought of the movie entitled, "Motives" with Vivica A. Fox but I still could not define the definition when he asked.
So, motives is basically the reason behind doing something bad or something considered wrong or unethical. That's not how the definition is written in the book but from the way he explained it, that's what I got from it. He said this interesting quote. "Motives Color The Means"
Next class, I'm more and more interested in this class. After so many class participations I really felt that I could use this knowledge for my own personal benefit. Motives Color The Means, so I asked all of my friends the same questions. Would you shoot a baby? Of course they said no but the cat had their tongues when i asked if they would shoot a baby if shooting that baby would save ten thousand other babies. Quickly my boys said that was stupid and that I should ask something else. So I asked one of my friends, what were you afraid of? He answered, "Swimming" I laughed because I never knew he didn't know how to swim and that was the reason why he stayed as far away form the water when we all were at the beach two years ago. However, I said would you jump in the river for a million dollars. Surprisingly he said no. Me personally, I would ride a bull for that amount. He said there's absolutely nothing that would get me to jump in the river. I said would you do it if your little baby nephew was drowning. He started to laugh and then say, "Okay, I get it now, you're right, that's very interesting"
I still stand firm that I would rob a bank if I could get away with it because I wouldn't hurt anyone physically and I would use the money for something good. What's the motive behind a person robbing a bank, or selling drugs, or eating out of the garbage. Even if I failed the class I would have still been satisfied with knowledge of this one powerful quote, "Motives Colors The Means"
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