When judgments pass on a person or action, they are mostly, and most of the time, quite negative. We may be judged for the way we walk, the way we talk, or even the way some place a legend under a chart in Excel instead of under the right standard. People judge each other because the conventions accepted by one person differ from the other and what this does is interfere with what is being judged on. This is mainly due to the area of knowledge, emotion. We are bound to feel slightly insulted, embarrassed, or uncomfortable by what was said, naturally causing us to retreat with that action or habit. In the arts and sciences there are more than a handful of passing judgments when it comes to the acts committed by people in those areas. But where do these accepted conventions originate? The key word that arises here is ethics. It is almost impossible to define and state what is accepted and what is not, but what can be explained is where these “guidelines for normality” might come from. Each of us has our own opinion on what we consider acceptable and unacceptable. By bringing natural sciences into the limelight, we can easily find many examples and statements that may seem quite overused, such as animal testing: is it true? But how about taking an example that conforms not to the animal kingdom, but more to the human one, to provide a slightly higher shock factor? The Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971 took place at Stanford University and the main objective formulated by the researcher was to see whether ordinary, social people with a decent background, transform into the opposite when they are put in a place of power where they can be seen almost as 'bad'. The experiment… halfway through the document… adopted the conventions and with this we began to create additional regulations and laws to follow to avoid unethical practices. Dissections and autopsies are extremely limited now, especially if necessary for an art form. The three fundamental ways of knowing: emotion, religion and faith, are the backbone from which accepted conventions would originate. These influence the ethical judgments that people create and gravitate them equally towards both the natural sciences and the arts. Their reasoning in the Natural Sciences usually surpasses more than in the Arts, due to their confidence in the facts and in the usefulness of any knowledge achieved. Whereas the arts suffer more prejudice and discussion since art is more subjective and based on everyone's opinion on what can be considered art. Ethics technically limits the production of knowledge, even more today than before.
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