Peer Response for Annotation 1

Response 1 (For both Ruby Chen and Angel)

Link to Angel's Annotation 1
Link to Ruby Chen's Annotation 1

The following is the response for Ruby Chen and Angel's Annotation 1 because those two annotations are revolving on the same subject.

I view this issue from perspectives other than whether the they are mature enough to take the decision. Matureness, stable income and financial support may not be key to teenage marriage. For the same reason, whether decriminalized or not may not be key to the issue of seemingly mutually exclusive role played by prostitution in one specific society, e.g. Taiwan.

Take Ruby's annotation as an example, I would start by looking at the definition of matureness, a term defined by a group of people, mostly adults in the middle or higher class in the society. It defines a set of behavior and manners that help a person fit in one specific society, e.g. the modern Taipei city or a traditional small british village, just to name a few. One who gains success in learning or acting in accordance with these rules will be considered mature in that society. Nevertheless, it does not guarantee that people's doing will be morally righteous; it only guarantees that you will fit in the society. Looting and killing during a war is unrighteous, yet it happens since those in a war have grown numb to taking other people's lives and possessions and they have to do so to obtain peer recognition.

Back to the subject, we may give some thought to this issue from the following points so we can identify the real issue:

1. (Ruby Chen) What does it mean to be mature?
2. (Ruby Chen) What does it mean to get married? Is it necessary to get married if two people love each other? Is the laws related to marriage a shackle on love or one way to protect love?
3. (Angel) Are women freed from establishment of red light district or are they freed from beginning thinking of themselves as 'sex workers' rather than 'prostitutes?'

The idea to manage dispersed sex workers by establishing red light district, as written by Angel, share the very same idea which you can find in laws that put regulations on marriage. Why do we need laws telling you how you should love someone and what you should pay if you stop loving her/him? Why do we need to manage 'dispersed' sex workers?

In conclusion, the perspectives provided herein are meant to provoke discussion that may lead to a deeper understanding of the true issue underlying management of prostitution or teenage marriage. I do not suggest management of sex workers or laws related to marriage should be abolished. Thank you for spending time reading through my lengthy response.

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Response 2 (For Annie)

Link to Annie's Annotation 1


I have some humble feedback after watching this video.

The uneasiness or sorrow felt by you after you learn the truth of euthanasia is a very important part of humanity that is known as compassion. Compassion literally means the sympathetic pity and concern for the suffering or misfortune of others. A great portion of people, especially in the modernized society, has ceased to possess this crucial element of humanity since we are separated from the environment and other human being. Ironically, Our lives are ever more interdependent on the others when advancement of technology and the wheels of commerce bring us closer yet we are ever more separated from the others when we are connected by the increasingly immense network of the internet and cellphone.

When we could still feel sorry for the misery of the stray animals, we have to think of other animals that are being consumed, or more close to the truth, eaten. Here I give my humble message that I think everyone should re-think this question. Why do we feel bad for the stray dogs while we can eat some other animals? If we despise the dog-eating people on main land China, what is so different eating a pig or cow?

Thank you for reading till the end.



Jim