The Negatives For A Livable World Is A Vulnerableable World

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“What makes for a livable world is no idle question”, Butler pronounces, and judging the meaning of this quote, I believe that this question is varied throughout our world. Butler acknowledges that with social norms, majority of the people outside of these norms will feel unrecognized, while obviously still capable of living within our world, but taking into account the thought of not belonging. These “different” people who develop the acquisition that they’re not included, is what undermines their question of whether or not this is a livable world. Given the situation, these outside individuals may also tend to become less vulnerable, in fear that their true identities will be miscalculated and/or unacknowledged. To rid of these biased norms, …show more content…

It is what defines part of the question to what makes a livable world, but one should learn when, where, and the consequences of being vulnerable. There are many positives to becoming vulnerable, but there are also negatives. One must consider that becoming vulnerable does, yes, help release challenging emotions and the opportunity to connect with others, but also lets others have the ability to become violent. Becoming vulnerable lets others inside our emotions, which also gives people the opportunity to hurt us. The fact that without vulnerability, we give people nothing to consider or understand about us which gives us no reason to fear becoming attacked. Though, when we become socially vulnerable, we are also creating our physical and emotional vulnerability which gives us options of either becoming loved, or becoming hurt. We must all acknowledge the positives and negatives of vulnerability and learn to accept that when we let others in, we risk the fault of being hurt, but we also risk the pride of being loved. Therefore, without vulnerability, we may never find love, and we may never be able to restore a friendship that may be …show more content…

Someone who fakes their communication and fakes their vulnerability in order to fit in, may seem human to those who relate, but is considered non-human to most because the human is who we truly are and not who we pretend to be. Now, this may seem true for most of us, but understanding that the human is who we truly are on the inside, we must take into account that we all wear masks. We all pretend to be someone who we’re not when confronted within a group that differs from our socially normal group. In regards to this assumption, this mean that we’re all considered human when we conform to become acknowledged through the use of

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