Prejudice
In the Ted Talk by Paul Bloom he explores the concept of prejudice. He explains why prejudice can be beneficial to our everyday decision making. In Twelve Angry Men, prejudice is very prevalent in the jurors decision making. Often times a lower social class is associated with crime more than a higher social class is. In Twelve Angry Men, the accused murderer is from a lower social class. Juror number eight points out that the accused murders poor family and low social class indicates that he most likely did murder the victim. In the Ted Talk, Paul shows us a important quote. "Without the aid of prejudice and custom. I should not be able to find my way across the room; nor know how to conduct myself in any circumstances, nor what to feel in any relation of life.". This quote is describing the importance of prejudice. It is saying that prejudice can help us get through our everyday life because more times than not, our prejudices are correct. Often times prejudices can be used to exclude and separate people. In Twelve Angry Men, Juror number nine refers to the accused murder as "one of them". While the race of the accused was not shown to us we know that the accused comes from a low social class. This juror is using his prejudice to show he isn't like the accused murderer and that the accused murderer is an outsider.
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Pt 2.In the Ted Talk, He gave different examples of how the same action can have different outcomes depending on the person. Paul showed us that when seeing baseball cards Ebay, the white hand holding the baseball cards got less bids than the black hand holding the exact same baseball cards. Also that Babies preferred to play with dolls that had the same food preferences as them. This brings a question up for the twelve Angry Men. Could The process have been a lot easier to find the accused murderer as not guilty if he was rich or from a higher social class? I believe that it would have been easier for these jurors to find him innocent if this was true.
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