Week7 - First draft - Qs for Narration

My persuasive argument thesis is

People try to justify their behaviors and beliefs in the situation when they do something wrong or unacceptable.

1. What do people already know about my topic?

Everyone knows that human beings are rational in thinking and behaving. Everyone knows that they mostly think in objective ways. We behave like engineers, working accurate, objective, and not mistakable. Some people engage in rational jobs, engineers, doctors, mathematicians, and so on. In the world of rationality, people fear about mistakes. In reality, though, people make something wrong so-called mistakes, and they are worrying about what should they do with that kind of problem. This case, though people are thinking and behaving in rationality, they try to justify their behaviors or beliefs to make themselves feel better, and to keep their positive images of themselves.

2. What research has already been done about my topic?

http://psychology.about.com/od/pindex/f/placebo-effect.htm : this source is a good example of understanding Placebo effect which is necessary to learn human self-justification.

3. What are the implications of my argument? (What if I'm right? What if I'm right and people ignore me?)

People in the world was thought to be in two different ways. First, what I think more acceptable in reality is that humans are subjective beings, judging something by their emotions, personal views or experiences. The other that I do not agree for is that humans are totally rational beings, so that they make judgement according to their objective and direct reason. In the situation of this conflict between two thoughts, researches on human justification of themselves has been done by several scientists and psychologists. People will never get to know how their behaviors and thoughts work unconsciously in their mind operation. Reading my classical argument people will be able to appreciate about their inner workings and psychological effects entailed by them.

Humans will work for making their wrongdoing justified for themselves. Human minds will be incapable of independence from self-justification. Mistakes will occur, humans will need to overcome them, but we will use justification to overcome our wrong behaviors or beliefs. If people ignore me, they will lose their opportunities to be able to know about their inner mind working. They will ignore more and more about their minds which can lead them to live in unrealistic world by justifying everything.