Chapter 9: EleCcIoNeS GeNeRaLeS

In any democratic society, politicians do not get into the government on their own. They need to be elected by others, they need “our help”. But then WE are the ones who judge them later as persons who do not behave “ethically.” So I wonder why did you vote him/her at elections if you consider them not to be a trustworthy person?? Here I totally agree with Savater. I mean we can`t expect others to solve troubles as if they were superheroes!!
As Savater says there are good and bad politicians like in any other field: good and bad teachers, football players, etc. We should not always think that all the politicians are not good persons because they couldn’t or can’t fulfill our wishes that concern public life.

I think that this picture may show us what young people think about politics. They don’t want to feel involved in that kind of matter since they may think that politics is a dirty business or just because they feel that politics isn’t related to their lifes.

Chapter 8: TaNTo GuStO

I asked my mom what she thinks about pleasure, and the first thing she told me is that we tend to connect pleasure with guilt. This is what the majority of people think. We usually forget that we need in some way to satisfy our body, our soul, and our feelings, but we forget about that or we do reject those pleasures because we tend to think that enjoy is something bad, something that we should not fee. But what about when we say that we are enjoying a job, that it is a pleasure to do it, and spend hours working because we are very happy about that? Is this kind of pleasure different from the one that is related to sexual relationships? Why? I just know that in our society those pleasures that are connected to private things are the ones that are punished.
Something that made me reflect very much was the difference between “use and abuse”. Perhaps we consider that pleasure is related to guilt because when we satisfied some need, we tend to want more of that, don’t we? And here appears “abuse”, which can make our life a disaster if we let that pleasure to take control over us.Some religions, such as the Catholic think in the same way. They consider that there is a limit between to live and to have some pleasures and to live in order to have those pleasure: that’s why they talk about Capital Sins when we abuse of those pleasures that make us enjoy life
To me, enjoy some pleasures have nothing wrong, but we have to be very careful about looking for that satisfaction in order to live a good life.