morning everyone and welcome to our
guests from bill st. Bernard’s and join
us today I’m Lizzy Dublin I’m a senior
here at Blair I’m the more Greenwich
Connecticut and I’m one of your co-hosts
for today today we are here to look at
innovation and social change in today’s
shifting global landscape and you have a
lot of great student speakers or here
today to share their views on this
subject first up we have Santa Paul from
Kellogg New Jersey he’s a four year
senior a cross-country runner and a
grower and first he was first and
foremost a scholar who’s driven and
studious finally critical at the world
around him for the years that I’ve known
him I’ve never known him to be anything
but kind and charismatic to those around
him he has been on Model UN all four
years and leads our student run debate
team he was here today to talk about how
our beliefs factor into our everyday
decisions please join me in welcoming
Santa Claus
[Applause]
alright let’s just hop right into it so
part of the reason I wanted to give this
talk today it stems from my childhood
see I used to hate it when people would
tell me that things were simple because
honestly nothing is really that simple
every single problem we encounter in our
lives has its own set of difficulties
complexities its complications and today
I wanted to talk to you about one set of
problems that we encounter as we reach
this climax of social innovation in our
everyday lives it’s a problem you
encounter how I have encountered today
I’ve encountered today you will
encounter tomorrow and I will encounter
tomorrow and that’s right or wrong
cartoon is actually a personal day of
your life it’s not a terrible sense of
humor but essentially Before we jump in
this whole topic let’s play a quick game
let’s have some fun all right I need
everyone to raise their hands
accordingly to each these next couple
questions so be as honest as possible
how many people in this room believe
that a student should try their hardest
to succeed in the class
well in this room believe that
government should try it’s hard to
guarantee and success let’s try another
set of questions they’re a little bit
different and see if you can figure out
what’s different about them how many
people in this room believed that a
student should try everything possible
everything possible to succeed in the
class okay you would be honest mom don’t
worry about other people’s opinions all
right how many people in this room
believed that a government should try
everything possible to guarantee success
okay
some of you good good good so let’s
think about that for a second the people
who raised their hands second time
around why’d you do that
maybe it’s because you believe
successful ends justify and imminent
means maybe it’s because you believe
that doing everything possible is only
natural or maybe you just raised your
hand because you kind of felt like it
you didn’t really know what’s going on
either way you’re very different from
the people who didn’t raise their hand
so I’m gonna throw around some names
right here everyone pay attention
excusing me very important for the rest
of the top okay so everyone who didn’t
raise their hand on any of the second
questions or one of the second questions
you’re what I call a relativist now a
relativist subscribes to this theory of
relative right and wrong you you make
your decisions on what’s right and
what’s wrong based off of how it affects
others so those of you who didn’t raise
your hands for the second question about
school you sat there for a second and
thought well everything possible
includes cheating and cheating would
affect all my friends for you the means
are more important than the ends how
we’ve get there so what about you people
who raise your hand for the second
questions you’re what I call a zero-sum
ER now oh sorry so that’s a relative
definition a zero-sum ER now 0 summer
subscribes to this theory of 0 of
zero-sum right wrong and zero-sum right
wrong means you make your decision make
decisions based on what’s right and
what’s wrong based off of how it affects
you for you the ends justify the means
now I don’t want to scare anyone here
there’s there’s there’s no concrete
definitions no one is a complete zero
summer no one is a complete relativist
we change our opinions based on our
biases and our situations and every day
one day I could be relativist the next
day
zero summer and neither of these
theories is right and wrong so in order
to get a better grasp then let’s return
to those original examples that I talked
about I was first introduced to this
topic a couple weeks back in school
see I taught one of my really good
friends cheating to try and get a better
grade and I was disappointed see I’m a
relativist when it comes to school I
don’t think anyone should cheat and try
and ruin the curve for other people but
because I respected my friends so much I
decided to figure out why he may have
cheated I knew who was under a lot of
stress from college and schoolwork and
he’s a very good student but brilliant
student so maybe he thought one brief
moment of unfairness would kind of
continue this trend of good grades and
it would help him just to get his head
above water this again like I said he’s
not a bad student he was actually a very
brilliant because it is a very brilliant
guy but he just got over well and we all
get overwhelmed in times of time as a
human thing and he shouldn’t be punished
for being overwhelmed should he
well there’s your question right who’s
right maybe be condescending outsider
him this is biased insider
and honestly I don’t know I’m not here
to tell you who’s right or who’s wrong
what I’m trying to get you to think
about today is how our internal biases
affect the way we think but if we’re
gonna make a decision like this if we’re
gonna try and figure out who’s right me
or my friend let’s learn a little bit
more about this subject so I’ll start
with the facts according to according to
a glass castle calm 86% of high school
students say that they have cheated at
some point in their high school careers
86% also according to glass castle comm
41 that’s right also according to glass
castle comm more members of the public
believe that cheating is an issue that
member
the actual educational establishment and
even then it’s a slim 41% to 36 so if so
many people if so many people care
enesta so many people cheap and so few
people care why is this even an issue
right well let me take a look at a
different point of view
let’s look at the theory behind it but
to give in fact that people who cheat
ruin the curve for other people who work
within the parameters of fairness right
so is it really fair that small
percentage without marking Senate or
whatever member will attribute to it the
people who are cheating to to hurt
people who trusted in their fellow man
and this this is where the disagreement
in the audience stem from half of you
raised your hand and the other half did
more or less because those are the half
that raised their hand ascribe to this
this is the fact part of the thing they
said 86 percent 80 percent of people
cheat at some point in their high school
career and so a few people care so I
should she knows them now your
relativists in the crowd you sat there
and said well what about that 14 percent
who don’t cheat what about the people on
the test were cheating I don’t want to
ruin things for them and this difference
in perspective it haunts us in social
innovation and we sit there for a minute
trying to debate what’s up what equal
what’s fair what’s libertarian and we’ve
come to this this disagreement and no
one wants to try and see things from the
other point of view so we’ve talked
about school but let’s talk about the
other example
let’s shift gears pretty quickly so we
got similar results right when we when
we did the whole hand experiment some
people raise their hand for the second
question for school and some of those
same people raised their hand for the
second question about government so
that’s this should be pretty equal right
but like I said in the beginning
everything in life is different
everything is complicated
everything in life is complicated and we
can’t necessarily look at things the
same way every time
so I’m gonna bring you back to an
example when I was first introduced to
governmental design of this fourth issue
it was about a week and a half back and
I’m sitting in history class would play
quirky and often quotable history
teacher Blair students know was dr.
Miller and Doc said something very
interesting it threw me off when he
first said it he said persecution works
in the short run because in the long run
were all dead and now I was sitting
there and I was kind of shocked by how
more than that statement was and I sat
there and utter disbelief and was kind
of almost kind of confused until I
realized that my doc doc is right some
of the greatest leaders and the greatest
leaders in history Deng Xiaoping the
Romanovs Joseph Stalin they all use
persecution to secure whatever means
possible and now I can already see it
some of your relativists members are
jumping out of your seat and you’re
cursing at me and you’re saying how can
you how can you dare support great
leader how can he dare support these
leaders not even history has defended
them it’s actually deposed guys like the
Romanovs and Joseph Stalin you’re right
you’re not wrong history hasn’t
defending these leaders it’s actually
made enemies out of them and made them
into monsters but if we try and think
about what they’re doing we can kind of
come to grips with the zero-sum point of
view right Dave jump in then champagne
was trying to bring China into the
modern era he was trying to take a
country and returning for the poorest
countries in the world and make them
into one of the rich
he practically has succeeded – instead
is not around to see it anymore and then
the Romanovs the Romanovs were trying to
hold together the largest country in the
world made of a multitude of different
ethnicities constantly changing its
borders constantly defending itself from
enemies
so of course persecution needed is a
bold social order and then Stalin
doesn’t really know defending installing
and assuming my point right but if you
think about it without these leaders but
they shout pain without the Romanovs
without Stalin there’s only NRT at Civil
War and then it begs the question our n
arcane Civil War really better than a
country that produces successful acts so
I want everyone to read this quote if
you’re going to take anything from what
I said today I want you to take this we
don’t see things as they are we see
things as we are so every time you get
into a disagreement with one of your
friends or if you’re watching the
Republican debate last night and seeing
candidates yell at each other in college
another dumb names we need to think of
why that’s happening it’s not because
one party is right or one party is
completely wrong
it’s because we believe we’re right and
we don’t want to look at things from the
other person’s perspective and so this
difference is in how these differences
in how BC thinks it’s right and wrong
and how other people speaking is quite
well they mold us they shape us and as
we we encounter this future of greater
social innovation we need to be prepared
for that
we need to be able to walk into a
conversation sit down and understand the
other person’s point of view without
patronizing them for thinking
differently whether it’s on a molecular
level or the grand scale whether it’s on
a likely level or the grand scale
life is complicated you’re gonna run
into these roadblocks you’re gonna run
into these difficulties these
complexities these calm
patience and you’re gonna you’re gonna
meet people who don’t agree with you
it’s part of what the difference between
us a cyclists is a successful Society
and us as an unsuccessful aasaiya T’s
running into these roadblocks and
smiling at people who don’t agree with
you and taking everything they say with
a grain of salt understanding what they
say and hopefully building a better
future for us as a people thank you
[Applause]
guests from bill st. Bernard’s and join
us today I’m Lizzy Dublin I’m a senior
here at Blair I’m the more Greenwich
Connecticut and I’m one of your co-hosts
for today today we are here to look at
innovation and social change in today’s
shifting global landscape and you have a
lot of great student speakers or here
today to share their views on this
subject first up we have Santa Paul from
Kellogg New Jersey he’s a four year
senior a cross-country runner and a
grower and first he was first and
foremost a scholar who’s driven and
studious finally critical at the world
around him for the years that I’ve known
him I’ve never known him to be anything
but kind and charismatic to those around
him he has been on Model UN all four
years and leads our student run debate
team he was here today to talk about how
our beliefs factor into our everyday
decisions please join me in welcoming
Santa Claus
[Applause]
alright let’s just hop right into it so
part of the reason I wanted to give this
talk today it stems from my childhood
see I used to hate it when people would
tell me that things were simple because
honestly nothing is really that simple
every single problem we encounter in our
lives has its own set of difficulties
complexities its complications and today
I wanted to talk to you about one set of
problems that we encounter as we reach
this climax of social innovation in our
everyday lives it’s a problem you
encounter how I have encountered today
I’ve encountered today you will
encounter tomorrow and I will encounter
tomorrow and that’s right or wrong
cartoon is actually a personal day of
your life it’s not a terrible sense of
humor but essentially Before we jump in
this whole topic let’s play a quick game
let’s have some fun all right I need
everyone to raise their hands
accordingly to each these next couple
questions so be as honest as possible
how many people in this room believe
that a student should try their hardest
to succeed in the class
well in this room believe that
government should try it’s hard to
guarantee and success let’s try another
set of questions they’re a little bit
different and see if you can figure out
what’s different about them how many
people in this room believed that a
student should try everything possible
everything possible to succeed in the
class okay you would be honest mom don’t
worry about other people’s opinions all
right how many people in this room
believed that a government should try
everything possible to guarantee success
okay
some of you good good good so let’s
think about that for a second the people
who raised their hands second time
around why’d you do that
maybe it’s because you believe
successful ends justify and imminent
means maybe it’s because you believe
that doing everything possible is only
natural or maybe you just raised your
hand because you kind of felt like it
you didn’t really know what’s going on
either way you’re very different from
the people who didn’t raise their hand
so I’m gonna throw around some names
right here everyone pay attention
excusing me very important for the rest
of the top okay so everyone who didn’t
raise their hand on any of the second
questions or one of the second questions
you’re what I call a relativist now a
relativist subscribes to this theory of
relative right and wrong you you make
your decisions on what’s right and
what’s wrong based off of how it affects
others so those of you who didn’t raise
your hands for the second question about
school you sat there for a second and
thought well everything possible
includes cheating and cheating would
affect all my friends for you the means
are more important than the ends how
we’ve get there so what about you people
who raise your hand for the second
questions you’re what I call a zero-sum
ER now oh sorry so that’s a relative
definition a zero-sum ER now 0 summer
subscribes to this theory of 0 of
zero-sum right wrong and zero-sum right
wrong means you make your decision make
decisions based on what’s right and
what’s wrong based off of how it affects
you for you the ends justify the means
now I don’t want to scare anyone here
there’s there’s there’s no concrete
definitions no one is a complete zero
summer no one is a complete relativist
we change our opinions based on our
biases and our situations and every day
one day I could be relativist the next
day
zero summer and neither of these
theories is right and wrong so in order
to get a better grasp then let’s return
to those original examples that I talked
about I was first introduced to this
topic a couple weeks back in school
see I taught one of my really good
friends cheating to try and get a better
grade and I was disappointed see I’m a
relativist when it comes to school I
don’t think anyone should cheat and try
and ruin the curve for other people but
because I respected my friends so much I
decided to figure out why he may have
cheated I knew who was under a lot of
stress from college and schoolwork and
he’s a very good student but brilliant
student so maybe he thought one brief
moment of unfairness would kind of
continue this trend of good grades and
it would help him just to get his head
above water this again like I said he’s
not a bad student he was actually a very
brilliant because it is a very brilliant
guy but he just got over well and we all
get overwhelmed in times of time as a
human thing and he shouldn’t be punished
for being overwhelmed should he
well there’s your question right who’s
right maybe be condescending outsider
him this is biased insider
and honestly I don’t know I’m not here
to tell you who’s right or who’s wrong
what I’m trying to get you to think
about today is how our internal biases
affect the way we think but if we’re
gonna make a decision like this if we’re
gonna try and figure out who’s right me
or my friend let’s learn a little bit
more about this subject so I’ll start
with the facts according to according to
a glass castle calm 86% of high school
students say that they have cheated at
some point in their high school careers
86% also according to glass castle comm
41 that’s right also according to glass
castle comm more members of the public
believe that cheating is an issue that
member
the actual educational establishment and
even then it’s a slim 41% to 36 so if so
many people if so many people care
enesta so many people cheap and so few
people care why is this even an issue
right well let me take a look at a
different point of view
let’s look at the theory behind it but
to give in fact that people who cheat
ruin the curve for other people who work
within the parameters of fairness right
so is it really fair that small
percentage without marking Senate or
whatever member will attribute to it the
people who are cheating to to hurt
people who trusted in their fellow man
and this this is where the disagreement
in the audience stem from half of you
raised your hand and the other half did
more or less because those are the half
that raised their hand ascribe to this
this is the fact part of the thing they
said 86 percent 80 percent of people
cheat at some point in their high school
career and so a few people care so I
should she knows them now your
relativists in the crowd you sat there
and said well what about that 14 percent
who don’t cheat what about the people on
the test were cheating I don’t want to
ruin things for them and this difference
in perspective it haunts us in social
innovation and we sit there for a minute
trying to debate what’s up what equal
what’s fair what’s libertarian and we’ve
come to this this disagreement and no
one wants to try and see things from the
other point of view so we’ve talked
about school but let’s talk about the
other example
let’s shift gears pretty quickly so we
got similar results right when we when
we did the whole hand experiment some
people raise their hand for the second
question for school and some of those
same people raised their hand for the
second question about government so
that’s this should be pretty equal right
but like I said in the beginning
everything in life is different
everything is complicated
everything in life is complicated and we
can’t necessarily look at things the
same way every time
so I’m gonna bring you back to an
example when I was first introduced to
governmental design of this fourth issue
it was about a week and a half back and
I’m sitting in history class would play
quirky and often quotable history
teacher Blair students know was dr.
Miller and Doc said something very
interesting it threw me off when he
first said it he said persecution works
in the short run because in the long run
were all dead and now I was sitting
there and I was kind of shocked by how
more than that statement was and I sat
there and utter disbelief and was kind
of almost kind of confused until I
realized that my doc doc is right some
of the greatest leaders and the greatest
leaders in history Deng Xiaoping the
Romanovs Joseph Stalin they all use
persecution to secure whatever means
possible and now I can already see it
some of your relativists members are
jumping out of your seat and you’re
cursing at me and you’re saying how can
you how can you dare support great
leader how can he dare support these
leaders not even history has defended
them it’s actually deposed guys like the
Romanovs and Joseph Stalin you’re right
you’re not wrong history hasn’t
defending these leaders it’s actually
made enemies out of them and made them
into monsters but if we try and think
about what they’re doing we can kind of
come to grips with the zero-sum point of
view right Dave jump in then champagne
was trying to bring China into the
modern era he was trying to take a
country and returning for the poorest
countries in the world and make them
into one of the rich
he practically has succeeded – instead
is not around to see it anymore and then
the Romanovs the Romanovs were trying to
hold together the largest country in the
world made of a multitude of different
ethnicities constantly changing its
borders constantly defending itself from
enemies
so of course persecution needed is a
bold social order and then Stalin
doesn’t really know defending installing
and assuming my point right but if you
think about it without these leaders but
they shout pain without the Romanovs
without Stalin there’s only NRT at Civil
War and then it begs the question our n
arcane Civil War really better than a
country that produces successful acts so
I want everyone to read this quote if
you’re going to take anything from what
I said today I want you to take this we
don’t see things as they are we see
things as we are so every time you get
into a disagreement with one of your
friends or if you’re watching the
Republican debate last night and seeing
candidates yell at each other in college
another dumb names we need to think of
why that’s happening it’s not because
one party is right or one party is
completely wrong
it’s because we believe we’re right and
we don’t want to look at things from the
other person’s perspective and so this
difference is in how these differences
in how BC thinks it’s right and wrong
and how other people speaking is quite
well they mold us they shape us and as
we we encounter this future of greater
social innovation we need to be prepared
for that
we need to be able to walk into a
conversation sit down and understand the
other person’s point of view without
patronizing them for thinking
differently whether it’s on a molecular
level or the grand scale whether it’s on
a likely level or the grand scale
life is complicated you’re gonna run
into these roadblocks you’re gonna run
into these difficulties these
complexities these calm
patience and you’re gonna you’re gonna
meet people who don’t agree with you
it’s part of what the difference between
us a cyclists is a successful Society
and us as an unsuccessful aasaiya T’s
running into these roadblocks and
smiling at people who don’t agree with
you and taking everything they say with
a grain of salt understanding what they
say and hopefully building a better
future for us as a people thank you
[Applause]
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