Saturday, November 13, 2010

Do you think that's deviant ?...

This week we learned about deviance and that it isn't always a bad thing. At first we learned about bad deviance examples and then Sal read us a story about a person that was deviant in a good way. Someone pulled a knife out on him and tried to rob him and as the boy was running away the man asked him if he wanted his jacket as well. This completely caught the boy off guard and in the end he took the boy to dinner. This is very rare, no one would ever think to take their thief out to dinner after he tries to steal from you. This story was also very surprising to me because personally I would never do that. More people should be like this because normally when someone steals from us we find a way to get them back and normally this leads to violence or we just don't know how to react because we never thought that something like that would happen to you. We were also supposed to do an act of deviance and what I did was pay for someone behind me, I didn't know the person and I don't know their reaction either but it made me feel great. It doesn't seem like something very big but when you do it it's different. Im always grateful for when my mom buys me things and I don't ask or really expect her to get me something. So maybe for them it was a feeling like that?

2 comments:

  1. I agree that deviance is not always a bad thing, i think people should try to be more deviant, in a good way of course, more often.

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  2. I also agree that deviance is not always bad and that the more people act deviant in a positive way, the more people will appreciate them.

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