"We are all connected." My response to that statement is probably opposite to most people here. I believe that we are not all connected. I do believe we are connected to a certain extent though.
When you eat a candy bar, do you really think that has an effect a little boy in Asia? To me, I do not think the two have any correlation at all. They are two separate occurrence's that have two different circumstances on two separate hemispheres. However, the quote "we are all connected", is true in a closed environment.
Earth, in fact, is not a closed environment. If you were stuck in a room, with no way out, with one other person, the quote applies. If there is one plate of food, and you eat it first, the other person will starve first. Because of your actions, you caused the other person to die first. You are connected to that person. In a closed environment, everything you do has an effect someone.
My final point is that the quote "we are all connected" is valid on a tiny scale in an open environment. "Some of us are partly connected" seems like a more accurate phrase to use. This is what the quote means to me. To summarize, my opinion is that we are not all connected, in a closed environment.
Thoughtful posts from the great minds in Mrs. Dupuy's English I Honors classes.
I like how you have a different opinion on the quote than everyone else. It opens up my eyes to a different point of view. I understand where you are coming from about being all connected in a closed environment rather than an open one. Although, you can change being connected across the continents, but you have to be the one to put forth effort to be connected.
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