Running Head: Intellectual Standards 3
other students in order to emerge the best. By considering competition, it is possible to indulge in
unscrupulous practices such cheating in exams or copying assignments in order to have good
grades or beat timelines respectively. By considering fairness, my perception of things changed. I
realized that by striving to complete my assignments, I was cultivating the virtue of hard work in
me. In addition to this that by pursuing my course diligently in order to stop cheating in exams I
was basically increasing my scope of knowledge.
Life presents a wide scope of challenges on a daily basis that ought to be addressed in a
wise manner. The decisions on what to wear, what to eat, what to do and how to behave are
basically determined by our own way of thinking. My decisions on day-to-day life practices can
also be determined by the influence I get from my friends. However, there are other decisions in
life that I have learned to make based on the fairness principle as per the intellectual standards.
For instance, it might seem irrelevant to place a candy wrapping in my pocket and drop it in a
dustbin. Fairness tells me that if I drop that wrapping carelessly, I am contributing to
environmental degradation that will adversely affect the future generation.
Conclusion
For me to improve on thinking fairly, I consider involving my friends in short discussions while
hanging out with them to make them realize the relevance of fairness in the society today. Being
fair individually may be good but may not be adequate in saving the world. By engaging on this
matter, I suppose I will have a different and a more advanced perception as regards fairness.
Similarly, having an advanced perception may not help much. I intend to put into practice the
positive practices that I will gain and discard the negative ones. By this, I suppose I will have a
broader view of how the other people perceive fairness and devise a way of influencing the to
think fairly.
