Argumentative Essay: Baby In Hot Car

Morality is something we as humans have for others, it is the inner emotions we feel that help us decide between wrong and right. There are five senses people have when reacting to moral experience in their day to day life. Emotion, bodily movements, facial expressions, language, memory, and imagination. Morality is involved with every part of our body and mind, when we react to social, cultural, and natural environments (Guthrie). On abc NEWS there is a live show called “What Would You Do” and I choose “Baby in Hot Car.” There were serval actors involved including, the doll playing the roll of the crying baby left in the car on a hot day, a mother who leaves the her infant in the car to run some erans, a father who leaves his infant in the …show more content…
There were also several bystanders who called the cops or threaten to call the cops if the parent didn’t take action. There were even sone bystanders that heard the crying baby and just continued to walk by. Many people who saw what was going on felt great sadness and fear. There was this mother and her daughter and when they walked by the car and heard the crying baby they were taken back. The father of the baby soon arrived and acted like nothing was wrong. The bystander told the father how she felt and explained to him that you can’t leave a baby in a car on a hot day know matter what the circumstances are. She told the father that even he didn't tend to his child she was going to call …show more content…
The first processes which is the physiological processes took place in the anterior cingulate cortex. This area was active because the mother felt moral conflict when seeing a baby left unattended in a hot car. The second processes the mother experienced was the chemical processes called epinephrin. This chemical was released from the adrenal medulla, which is stimulated by the central nervous system. This was a response of the woman bystander feeling fear for the young baby stuck inside a hot car. (dictionary.Com) The third and finally processes is the emotional processes. Emotions are the way in which our bodies respond to the internal or external stimuli that happens when a person has an subjective experience and or thought (Guthrie). The woman bystander seemed to have felt many different emotions, such as fear for the infant, anger towards the father who left his child in the car, and lastly sadness that someone would actually do such a morally wrong act. In the end all bystanders did in fact found out that it was all an act and were informed that crying baby was actually just a doll. Each and everyone of the bystanders were very relieved, but did still feel that they did the right thing in stepping in and trying the protect the baby that couldn’t

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