Lesson 5: Freedom of the Human Person
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Analyze the following situations. Give your recommendations on how the
persons involved can exercise freedom more responsibly.
1. Julia's family is well-known for being wealthy and influential. However, her
family faced hard times in the previous year. Her father's business closed and they
were forced to sell most of their possessions and live a much simpler life. Julia,
however
, wishes to maintain her image among her friends. She has resorted to
borrowing money from relatives in order to keep up with her well-off barkada.
2. Mang Tony's meat stall has been very profitable these days. It turns out that he
has been tampering with the weighing scales and has been selling less meat at
increased prices. One time, some meat went stale and he decided to mix it with
the other fresh meat so he could still sell it.
3. Bernard was asked by his teacher to photocopy handouts and reading materials in
their English class. His teacher unknowingly inserted a copy of the final exam in
the stack of papers she gave to Bernard. When he saw the copy of the final exam,
Bernard quickly took it and placed it in his bag.
4. Gladys was very angry when she heard that her friend Julia was spreading mean
gossip about her in school. When Gladys found out that Julia has been pretending
to be rich when in fact her family is now poor, she contacted her friends and told
them about it.​