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COMM 3030 - Communication and Social Responsibility
A stroll of thought
Posted posted by Becky Jo @ 12:00 PM
The other day as I embarked on my daily trek into work, which just so happens to be near the Salt Lake City homeless shelter, I expectedly ran into several people asking for money. Their reasons differed though all seemed to be in need of the same basic human needs, food being the more abundant one. Of course, as many of us do, I shamefully said no to each of them knowing I had several dollars in my purse.What does this have to do with social responsibility? Well is it a human’s responsibility, to feed another human? I could have given a man a dollar, but how far would that dollar have gone? How is that making Salt Lake a better place?
Another time, a man around 35 approached me and gave me the same story about how he is homeless and hungry. Instead of just shrugging this man off, I asked him if he had ever tried getting a job. He continues to tell me that he was shot in the head with an AK47 while he was in war and since then hasn’t been able to work due to the pain medication he is on. Then I asked him if he went to church. He said no. The whole reason I am telling this is because ones purpose of social responsibility can be just helping a fellow man. I might not have fed that man that night but I gave him something to think about, maybe even hope. I think we can all show responsibility not by just helping one another but even acknowledging that we all live in the same world. We are in this together, and by showing that respectively, I think we would all be giving our part to social responsibility.
