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Discussion Questions:

Refer to page 89 of your textbook, Application 4.2 as this is where the activity for this week's discussion comes from.  Please answer 2-3 of these questions listed in the application (and presented below) and explain your rationale for each of your answers.  There are no right or wrong answers to these questions but they will begin to help you come to grips with some of your values, fears and biases.  

• Name the disability you most fear for yourself.
• Name the "difference" in others that you find the most frightening, upsetting, and/or disconcerting.
• Name the "difference" within you or about you that you would be most ashamed to admit.
• Name the "difference" within or about you that you would feel most proud of.
• Under what circumstances would you choose death?
• What class/group/cultural set of people do you believe to be the loneliest people in the world?
• What actions in the world, done by yourself or other people, would you be comfortable labeling as sin? As evil? As wrong?
• Are there any types of people or belief systems you would label as just plain wrong or evil? (Sommers-Flanagan & Sommers-Flanagan, 2007, p. 89)

Remember you only need to post a response to two or three of these questions. Please be thoughtful in what you share and how your comment to your classmates.  Only share what you feel comfortable sharing with others. 

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