To:
President Snow
The Capitol
8900 Dark Hill Drive
Panem
Dear President Snow,
The influences you have brought upon the citizens of Panem have raised great concern. Your constant force of selfish, unjust morals has forced the people of the Districts out of their altruistic ways and into a life of selfishness. This push towards selfishness contradicts with their innate and selfless desires, which more importantly include the want to better the society of Panem. This problem needs to be corrected in order to let the citizen’s altruism control their lives, rather than your egotistic demands. Amending this issue will allow the citizens to act altruistically not only to each other but to the community of Panem itself. They will work to modify and better Panem, which will only end positively for the citizens and for you. This is possible because altruism is one of the main motives that drive citizens to get involved with their community in order to later see it succeed. Selfishness, on the other hand, halts the citizen’s desire to better Panem because these citizens feel the need to help themselves first.
This severe issue must be changed as soon as possible in order to help the lives of the Panem citizens and the entire community of Panem itself. Not to worry, there is one specific way in which this issue of selfish behavior can be solved. Firstly, tributes needs to be removed out of the ‘Hunger Games.’ This event puts innocent citizens into a situation where they must act selfishly in order to survive. Not only are the tributes seen as selfish but also you, the viewers of these games, watch this for pure entertainment. Your selfish need for deadly entertainment puts the tributes in jeopardy because you are too concerned with satisfying yourselves to see the negative effects of these horrible games on your own citizens. This change will lower the influence of selfishness and will let the altruistic motives of the citizens of Panem to be used.
Forcing harmless children into the ‘Hunger Games’ influences children at a very young age to act selfishly rather than thinking of the other’s sake. This is seen in these games as the tributes must decide how they will survive. These tributes later have to kill innocent others in order for their own survival which thus forces a habit of selfish behavior. This new conduct thus changes their morals into more greedy and self-absorbed behavior rather than altruistic motives that benefit others. Removing these tributes from the ‘Hunger Games’ will relieve the need for these children to act selfishly when they should be acting altruistically. Altruism is an innate moral and should be used for the benefit of others rather than just one’s self. This is a very important moral, which should continue on throughout the lives of citizens, rather than being made to act selfishly in ‘The Games’.
I have witnessed this change in morals at first hand as I had to watch my pure, innocent younger sister go through this torture and fight in the ‘Hunger Games’. As a young girl I always had a close bond with my sister. I was able to watch her grow into a pure, altruistic young individual as she helped my family and I survive in the Districts. She would always lend a hand whenever anyone in our district needed help. She was kind to strangers and felt the need to help our district when our community was ever failing. Once her name was drawn to participate in the ‘Hunger Games’, this all changed. As she entered the ‘Hunger Games’, she had to begin making selfish and unjust decisions in order for her own survival. As I watched her murder her first tribute, I knew she would never be the same. This one venal decision changed her life and mine forever. To this day, the last image I ever saw of my sister was her killing other children as she was then killed herself. Seeing this barbaric, greedy behavior from my sister changed our entire family. This horrible image only drives me more to ensure that this recruitment of tributes has to be ended. No one deserves to make those life-threatening decisions and live at that level of selfishness. If you stop this recruitment, every citizen can continue to live his or her altruistic lifestyles in the Districts without the danger of drastic morality change in the ‘Hunger Games’. This moral of altruism is very important to every person here in the Districts as we strive to keep our district cooperative and functioning as a community.
Not only will this benefit these young children’s lives, but it will also benefit the entire community of Panem, that includes you. Relieving them from this duty will let their innate altruistic ways show, rather than changing these morals into pure selfishness. Once they are able to do this, altruism will influence them to help better their society, the Districts, because it is their innate ethical claim of responsibility to do so. Once the citizens are allowed to live through altruism, the Districts will become a much more successful and cooperative community. We can then work together with you, the Capitol, to function as a thriving community. Altruism influences a society to come together and work hard in order to see their community prosper. This thriving Panem could be in the future if you could just halt the recruitment of tributes, thus allowing the altruism within these citizens to be put to use.
Not only will ending the recruitment of tributes benefit the community of the Districts, it will more directly help you and your society in the Capitol. If you stop sending children into the games, the Capitol citizens will then not be able to watch others suffer in the ‘Hunger Games’ for entertainment. This selfish form of entertainment will then need to be replaced and can be through something less egocentric and more altruistic and entertaining. Eliminating these selfish behaviors will let the innate altruism show in the people of the Capitol, which can then drive them to take up the ethical claim of responsibility towards their own community. This new moral of acting for others can drive the citizens of the Capitol to work together in order to see the Capitol succeed in a way it has never functioned before. If these ‘Hunger Games’ were ended, this would help the Capitol prosper into a flourishing society.
This new moral could also influence the people of the Capitol to become less fixated on their personal image and popularity within the Capitol community, and more interested on keeping the society of the Capitol thriving and growing. As many of us know, the citizens of the Capitol are very interested in looking the best, owning only the best things, and seeming the best fit in. Their excessive fascination over having cultural capitol has led them act selfishly instead of living altruistically for the sake of others. Their constant obsession over fashion and fitting into the community distracts them from acting altruistically. Introducing this new moral of altruism, by eliminating the recruitment of tributes to the ‘Hunger Games’, can help the citizens become less distracted and more focused on the success of their community in the Capitol. This will in the long run help you President Snow by having a prosperous, empowering community in your hands.
Overall forcing and influencing selfishness into the lives of Panem citizens has only negative affects. It leads to the death of many innocent children (like my sister), negatively changed morals of the people of Panem, and selfish distractions from bettering our society. Relieving these influences will thus help the citizens lead a more altruistic life, which will later help better Panem overall. Not forcing citizens into the ‘Hunger Games’ will allow these people to care for each other and for their society in order for success. Having citizens who can pursue their innate ethical claim of responsibility towards Panem and their community will benefit everyone. Not only can the citizens living in the Districts thrive but also the people of the Capitol and their society as well. Altruism is an innate trait that needs to be taken advantage of, rather than changed and manipulated into selfishness. This is a major issue that needs to be solved and the results from this will only be completely positive.
Signed,
Lauren Conniff;
Concerned Altruistic Citizen
President Snow
The Capitol
8900 Dark Hill Drive
Panem
Dear President Snow,
The influences you have brought upon the citizens of Panem have raised great concern. Your constant force of selfish, unjust morals has forced the people of the Districts out of their altruistic ways and into a life of selfishness. This push towards selfishness contradicts with their innate and selfless desires, which more importantly include the want to better the society of Panem. This problem needs to be corrected in order to let the citizen’s altruism control their lives, rather than your egotistic demands. Amending this issue will allow the citizens to act altruistically not only to each other but to the community of Panem itself. They will work to modify and better Panem, which will only end positively for the citizens and for you. This is possible because altruism is one of the main motives that drive citizens to get involved with their community in order to later see it succeed. Selfishness, on the other hand, halts the citizen’s desire to better Panem because these citizens feel the need to help themselves first.
This severe issue must be changed as soon as possible in order to help the lives of the Panem citizens and the entire community of Panem itself. Not to worry, there is one specific way in which this issue of selfish behavior can be solved. Firstly, tributes needs to be removed out of the ‘Hunger Games.’ This event puts innocent citizens into a situation where they must act selfishly in order to survive. Not only are the tributes seen as selfish but also you, the viewers of these games, watch this for pure entertainment. Your selfish need for deadly entertainment puts the tributes in jeopardy because you are too concerned with satisfying yourselves to see the negative effects of these horrible games on your own citizens. This change will lower the influence of selfishness and will let the altruistic motives of the citizens of Panem to be used.
Forcing harmless children into the ‘Hunger Games’ influences children at a very young age to act selfishly rather than thinking of the other’s sake. This is seen in these games as the tributes must decide how they will survive. These tributes later have to kill innocent others in order for their own survival which thus forces a habit of selfish behavior. This new conduct thus changes their morals into more greedy and self-absorbed behavior rather than altruistic motives that benefit others. Removing these tributes from the ‘Hunger Games’ will relieve the need for these children to act selfishly when they should be acting altruistically. Altruism is an innate moral and should be used for the benefit of others rather than just one’s self. This is a very important moral, which should continue on throughout the lives of citizens, rather than being made to act selfishly in ‘The Games’.
I have witnessed this change in morals at first hand as I had to watch my pure, innocent younger sister go through this torture and fight in the ‘Hunger Games’. As a young girl I always had a close bond with my sister. I was able to watch her grow into a pure, altruistic young individual as she helped my family and I survive in the Districts. She would always lend a hand whenever anyone in our district needed help. She was kind to strangers and felt the need to help our district when our community was ever failing. Once her name was drawn to participate in the ‘Hunger Games’, this all changed. As she entered the ‘Hunger Games’, she had to begin making selfish and unjust decisions in order for her own survival. As I watched her murder her first tribute, I knew she would never be the same. This one venal decision changed her life and mine forever. To this day, the last image I ever saw of my sister was her killing other children as she was then killed herself. Seeing this barbaric, greedy behavior from my sister changed our entire family. This horrible image only drives me more to ensure that this recruitment of tributes has to be ended. No one deserves to make those life-threatening decisions and live at that level of selfishness. If you stop this recruitment, every citizen can continue to live his or her altruistic lifestyles in the Districts without the danger of drastic morality change in the ‘Hunger Games’. This moral of altruism is very important to every person here in the Districts as we strive to keep our district cooperative and functioning as a community.
Not only will this benefit these young children’s lives, but it will also benefit the entire community of Panem, that includes you. Relieving them from this duty will let their innate altruistic ways show, rather than changing these morals into pure selfishness. Once they are able to do this, altruism will influence them to help better their society, the Districts, because it is their innate ethical claim of responsibility to do so. Once the citizens are allowed to live through altruism, the Districts will become a much more successful and cooperative community. We can then work together with you, the Capitol, to function as a thriving community. Altruism influences a society to come together and work hard in order to see their community prosper. This thriving Panem could be in the future if you could just halt the recruitment of tributes, thus allowing the altruism within these citizens to be put to use.
Not only will ending the recruitment of tributes benefit the community of the Districts, it will more directly help you and your society in the Capitol. If you stop sending children into the games, the Capitol citizens will then not be able to watch others suffer in the ‘Hunger Games’ for entertainment. This selfish form of entertainment will then need to be replaced and can be through something less egocentric and more altruistic and entertaining. Eliminating these selfish behaviors will let the innate altruism show in the people of the Capitol, which can then drive them to take up the ethical claim of responsibility towards their own community. This new moral of acting for others can drive the citizens of the Capitol to work together in order to see the Capitol succeed in a way it has never functioned before. If these ‘Hunger Games’ were ended, this would help the Capitol prosper into a flourishing society.
This new moral could also influence the people of the Capitol to become less fixated on their personal image and popularity within the Capitol community, and more interested on keeping the society of the Capitol thriving and growing. As many of us know, the citizens of the Capitol are very interested in looking the best, owning only the best things, and seeming the best fit in. Their excessive fascination over having cultural capitol has led them act selfishly instead of living altruistically for the sake of others. Their constant obsession over fashion and fitting into the community distracts them from acting altruistically. Introducing this new moral of altruism, by eliminating the recruitment of tributes to the ‘Hunger Games’, can help the citizens become less distracted and more focused on the success of their community in the Capitol. This will in the long run help you President Snow by having a prosperous, empowering community in your hands.
Overall forcing and influencing selfishness into the lives of Panem citizens has only negative affects. It leads to the death of many innocent children (like my sister), negatively changed morals of the people of Panem, and selfish distractions from bettering our society. Relieving these influences will thus help the citizens lead a more altruistic life, which will later help better Panem overall. Not forcing citizens into the ‘Hunger Games’ will allow these people to care for each other and for their society in order for success. Having citizens who can pursue their innate ethical claim of responsibility towards Panem and their community will benefit everyone. Not only can the citizens living in the Districts thrive but also the people of the Capitol and their society as well. Altruism is an innate trait that needs to be taken advantage of, rather than changed and manipulated into selfishness. This is a major issue that needs to be solved and the results from this will only be completely positive.
Signed,
Lauren Conniff;
Concerned Altruistic Citizen