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Message: <blockquote data-quote="donner" data-source="post: 2109765" data-attributes="member: 277">I'm sorry but this is a critical thinking assignment. No one is asking you to give up any right, just to think about them in terms of which you feel are most important. I view the exercise not as a way of determining which rights you'd give up, but as a way of forcing you to actually think about what the rights are and why you feel they are important. The third amendment doesn't mean much to anyone any more since the last time troops were quartered in private homes was likely during the revolution, yet it's still a right. How many students have likely thought about why that amendment is important lately? If you feel that the second amendment protects all the others then it obviously does have more importance than the others. Or maybe you feel that the right to worship whatever God you want is most important. While all are important, we do hold some as more important. If someone asked you if food was more important than water you know you can't choose because you need both to live, yet you can live longer without food than water. If you were actually supposed to do interviews then you were likely supposed to find opinions to compare and contrast yours with, which could again force you to think about things critically. I hear it from college professors all the time here, students just want the 'right' answer and don't want to actually think about things critically.</blockquote>

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