New encounter in class. 7th November.

we discussed about our topic essay with peer editors at the beginning of today's ARW class. "What is our assumption" was our main focus of the discussion. One of my peer editor, Atsushi's essay topic is racism in Japan, mainly focus on hate-speech in Japan. I thought that he had an assumption that hate-speech is totally wrong, because he never mention in his essay about the cause of hate-speech in Japan. He just mentioned that hate-speaker is always wrong, and hate-speech should be regulated by law.

After, that discussion, we had another discussion, rather small presentation about our own essay.

Actually, I could hear many interesting story and analysis from other's presentations. One of my friend's essay topic is Cannibalism between human being. She said that human had eaten human a long time ago, and law

So, I thought that it is human instinct to eat human, because human being had eaten human being when there was no law or nobody who criticize him/her.

Then, under the assumption that human being has an instinct to eat human being, I wonder that why some western people dislike to eat whale, nevertheless, they have been eating pork, beef, or chicken, and also they have the instinct to eat even human being. 

Another friend's essay topic is about euthanasia. It is so controversial topic not only in Japan but also around the world.

His stance on euthanasia is positive, so he claimed that Japan should introduce it.

He showed us to some evidence that euthanasia will bring some merit to Japan and some examples which some countries already introduced it.

I didn't know that thing, so his presentation was meaningful for me.

Then, I searched about euthanasia after class.

I could get new knowledge from my friends, and some new point of views to controversial topics. 

We could collaborate and stimulus each other, today's class was interested.