Adrian Gabriel D.

Maranan 19118049
BS IHM CLOCA 4B GEC-ETHICS
ASSIGNMENT #1

1. Imagine that you are a legislator. What laws or rules or rules that currently prohibit
certain acts or practices would you want to amend or repeal? Also, are there certain
acts or practices currently permitted by the law that you would want to prohibit?
Think of this on the level of your school, your city, and the nation.

Despite international acknowledgment and endorsement of the Universal

Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees the fundamental rights of all human
beings, Indigenous Peoples' human rights remain unprotected in practice. Indigenous
Peoples continue to confront grave challenges to their basic survival due to systemic
government policies in several countries. National governments continue to deny
Indigenous people the right to live on and manage their ancestral lands, frequently
enacting policies that exploit the lands that have sustained them for centuries. In some
instances, governments have imposed forced assimilation policies to eliminate
Indigenous peoples, cultures, and customs. Governments worldwide have repeatedly
demonstrated a complete disregard for Indigenous beliefs, businesses, and human
rights. For the stated reason, I would like to amend an appeal about a law that protects
their rights and makes society treat them equally. Everyone should receive fair
treatment regardless of gender, ethnicity, or race. Similarly, I would like to prohibit the
law which prevents them from attending school, barriers from racism, and the
community that abuses them. Without questioning and explanation, they should have
access to everything an individual must have. Indigenous Peoples' rights should be
protected, and any forms of discrimination should not be tolerated. Everyone should be
reminded of love, respect, and acceptance, which should come naturally. After all, as
Audre Lorde once said, "It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to
recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."
2. Comment on this statement.
“What I believe must be true if I feel very strongly about it”

My intuition, I believe, is my subconscious, and when your consciousness

detects the nuances and patterns you mentioned, that awareness flags those feelings
and files them in a "special location" where additional developments along those same
nuanced lines will accumulate. Each contribution to this "special zone" in your memory
develops the collective energy and depending on your particular beliefs in such
metaphysics, deepens and expands its roots into other related phenomena that will be
valuable when future associations occur. In essence, it involves sticking up for what you
believe. If something is true, it is true whether or not you can justify it, agree with it, or
have ever considered it valid. However, upon reading the quotation, there is no link
between the truth and how someone feels about it. There has to be a reason you feel
very strongly about it. Where did this originate? I believe facts and evidence should be
the basis of truth. Intrinsically, your intuition can be a paradox. It can show up as your
greatest friend and your worst nightmare.