Epitaph Final Reflection

Throughout this entire year I have learned many important concepts and understood how to make myself and the world a better place because of the actions I can take. I think the most important concept I have studies this entire year would have to be the universe of obligation. Although I have learned so much about how to make my life better and how to make everything around me better the universe of obligation helped me understand that even if I want to help better the world I have obligations to the people in my universe of obligation. No matter how bad the world is I am going to make sure myself, my family and my friends are doing ok and then once I know that is taken care of is when I will intervene with others. A specific example of this is our study of the holocaust. While studying the holocaust we learned that many of the germans just didn't care about jews enough to help them. I believe that what they did was wrong but if my family was in danger I think I would have at least made sure they were safe and then try and do something to stop the massacre even if it would put my life in jeopardy. I don't believe I have or will ever have the choice to put anyones life in jeopardy which is why I would put the people in my universe of obligations in a safe environment before I can take any action.

I understand this could sound harsh but its the truth and I believe that this is what is going to make me happy because having the people closest to me happy is what will fulfill my life and make me happiest.