week twelve_law and emotion

Laws, to most people are equal to justice, but it may also become an obstacle on the way to the justice that the public commonly admit: sometimes the human emotion is against the settled law as can be proved in many cases.

From my understanding of the lecture given this week, laws are created to simply give an answer as well as solution to those actions of offenses, meanwhile no one can make sure if the solution provided by laws is always the best one. Further more, laws are the production of human thinking and consultation, so it is not strange to see people in different countries, or even various areas of the same country hold very different attitude towards the same law-breaking case, and law setting can differ a lot within a country.

In the perspectives of some people, the sword in Lady Justice's hand can be even more horrifying than the bony hand of the Reaper, especially when it comes to situations relative to someone' life, for the force of law is not allowed to be stained, thus it may seem to be quite impersonal. But after all, laws can be improved, and with the effort made by the whole society, definitely the public will trust the force of laws better and better.

Below is a picture I drew inspired by the idea given in this lecture.

Lady Justice and the Reaper

week eleven_about euthanasia

Euthanasia, in Chinese it is translated into 安樂死,means getting dead in peace. This translation may give the public an impression that euthanasia is something positive or at least not so unacceptable as what it really is. However whether to make euthanasia legal is still a rather difficult problem to governments throughout the world, for this is a critical topic concerning life and death and also the limitation of human being, in the perspective of population with some religious belief.

Even in some developed countries, the legalization of euthanasia is still at a very beginning stage. Netherlands is the first country that made positive euthanasia legal, and most countries are still holding a hesitating attitude towards this issue or just making passive euthanasia legal: perhaps out of the reason that passive euthanasia is closer to natural death, and either the hospital or relatives of the one receive euthanasia may feel less guilty of allowing patients to make this decision.

In my opinion, patients with no possibility of being rescue-able should be given the right to decide their life and death, this also fits the situation where people regard their life has been broken due to either diseases or accident. But making decision of euthanasia casually, though not too much influence would happen on the one decide to do so in voluntary cases, trauma may happen on relatives or even medical professionals. Still, to societies without an open enough attitude towards the turning from alive to dead, let alone services like Euthanasia take-away, the legalization of even passive euthanasia should be considered really carefully. Without a solid base of understanding the meaning of death, euthanasia may be modified or even lost its original humanized meaning.

make up post_human and nature

Here are two pictures drawn by me during the Easter holiday. The first can be seen as an extension of my doodle posted before, and the second is a make-up post for week nine, using the connection between human and nature as its theme.