Emotions

Sometimes, emotions cannot be trusted. It might lead us into some sort of behavior that
changes our perspective over the things or person around us. In the movie shown, “With Honor”,
there are many scenes or lines that related on emotional relativism – an extreme form of personal
relativism that claims that moral language or judgments are neither true nor false as it expresses
our emotions and try to influence others to agree with us.

One of the scenes in the movie that show emotivism is when Monty first conclude in his
mind that Simon likes tormenting to fail Monty, and that was very subjective. What he expressed
was a moral judgment because of what Monty sees in Simon is just a bum - a homeless and no
respect of what he is struggling in his thesis, since moral judgments cannot be tested by sense
experience, they cannot be authentic truth claims but can only express feelings.

In my conclusion, in some point, we cannot appeal to reason but only to emotion and our
expressions of personal preference. Emotional relativism that we humans have is not only
feelings but also a reason that plays a vital role in ethics and our society. The feelings or
emotions that involved in our moral thinking should be anchored on careful consideration
because feelings sometimes matter when we are deciding what is right and wrong, like when
Monty decided to accept Simon, his perceptions about him that was just based in his emotions at
first was subsided.