Automatic Attitudinal Response

When it comes to my own automatic attitudinal response I feel like I jump to certain opinions without reading what the other side has to say.

From the first on the media, I wrote about the poverty tour and I was very quick to defending poor people and how people call them lazy and unwilling to work. I felt that they weren’t lazy they just couldn’t get hired in this crazy jobless world.  Looking back and reading what I said about it I still agree, but at the same time there are plenty of homeless people that refuse to work and are in fact too lazy to even try to get a job, instead they spend their money on drugs.

Lately it’s been getting harder to watch the news because everything is so bias. Each news station is trying to get you to pick sides and not let you have your own opinion. They fill your head with their opinions and facts that may or may not be true.  Then once I go write about I realize that my opinion is based off of what I heard from that one news station, although it would be easy to click on another news station, I have to admit that I’m to lazy and don’t have all the time in the world to find out both sides of the story.

As much as I want to say I’m open-minded, sometimes I hear one side and automatically have an opinion or a certain attitude about it. I’ve been getting better at trying to understand why people do things and try to see from their point of view. I hate judging people or anything without knowing all the facts first.