Moral Chats Written By: Kendra Horvath

Announcer- Lacy Pilgrim Tim O’Brien- Ashlyn Rye Jean-Jaques Rousseau- Brianna Nielsen Announcer: It’s 8:00 and you have the dial tuned right. Welcome to moral chats, the show where

ideologies come together, clash and put perspective into the mind. Today in the studio we have a

philosopher and a draftee from the Vietnam War. I’d like to welcome Mr. Jean Jaques Rousseau and Mr.

Tim O’Brien. Welcome gentlemen.

Tim: Hello

Jean: Thank-you kindly.

Announcer: So Jean, Tim, what ideologies bring you here today.

Jean: Well believe that the government should be run by the people and work along with the general

will of the people. The purpose of politics is to restore freedom, not to oppress and shackle the people

to a set system. When governments use this principal behind the way things are run in a nation, it is

more directed towards the common good.

Tim; I definitely agree. The government should not be in control of what a person should do. For

example, my draft held me back from my dreams, my ambitions, and my goals just because the

government believed that it was necessary for me to enlist in a war against my own free will.

Jean: So why did you go then? Why wouldn’t you stand up for your beliefs?

Tim: Well what would you do? On one hand, you have your head and your heart that tells you to run

away from the draft notice, and believe me, I tried. I did take the supposed “cowardly” way out, but by

not wanting to be a coward in the eye’s of others I eventually submitted and went to war.

Jean: Yes, that is true, but why wouldn’t you protest?

Tim: well if I protested I would’ve disappointed my parents. If I didn’t, I would disappoint myself. I am a

coward any which way I choose, and why would I go with my beliefs when I would be displeasing

others?

Jean: “Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.”

Tim: Exactly.

Announcer: Thanks gentlemen. Well that’s all the time we have today. Next time tune in for chatter

between an economist and an immigrant from the former Soviet Union. This has been Moral Chat’s on

96.1, Goodnight everyone.