By: Nicole Cedar
We speak in class so often about how lawyers and judges lack any human
emotion, and that they are void of moral character. But it’s not just
the legal field that is devoid of a sense of moral justice. In the
season premiere of Grey’s Anatomy, the chief resident of Seattle Grace
Hospital stands outside the emergency room doors, in the freezing cold,
in the hopes that an ambulance will roll in carrying with them a patient
with a serious medical emergency. She seeks patients out of boredom,
and because she is hoping that by caring for and saving the life of a
patient while fellow residents watch and learn, she will increase the
“teaching hospital” rankings at Seattle Grace. When a younger
resident questions her desire for injured patients, she claims that she
doesn’t really care whether or not someone is injured, or how they are
injured, just so long as she can get the practice and experience in the
operating room. And even if this scene is an exaggerated example of
your typical doctor, the underlying lack of moral ethics is prevalent in
civilization as a whole. It’s not just with the law, or with medicine,
or politics or finance. Unemotional and immoral human beings exist in
every occupation, in every aspect of life, and in every corner of the
world. That’s a fact. But once we can acknowledge and accept this
fact, and realize that corrupt people exist everywhere, we won’t feel so
let down and betrayed when an unfeeling jerk crosses our path. Instead
we can focus on surrounding ourselves with positive influences, people
who do care, and people who are worth our time, while just brushing the
others off our shoulder. Harping too much on the negative side of
humanity is a waste of time that only takes away from positive feelings
and outlooks. The more you concentrate on the negative, the more it
will show up, and vice versa. So accept the fact that many humans lack
a sense of morality, and instead focus on surrounding yourself with the
ones who do.
