2021 RI KI Y6 T3 CT

This document consists of 4 printed pages [Turn over RAFFLES INSTITUTION 2021 Year 6 Term 3 Common Test Higher 2 Knowledge and Inquiry 9759/02 Paper 2 28 June 2021 2 hours Additional Materials: Answer Paper READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Do not turn this sheet over until you are told to do so. Write your name and CT group on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black ink. Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid/tape. Start each section on a fresh sheet of paper. Section A Answer Question 1. Section B Answer any two questions. At the end of the examination, fasten your answers to each section separately. You will be asked to submit your answer to each section separately. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question.

2 2021 RI KI Y6 TERM 3 CT Section A You must answer question one. 1 What happens in cancel culture is that those offended by the comments of another party become denounced online by those who object to the behaviour. It is a form of social and cultural boycott driven by ‘groupthink’ meaning the intolerance of others with a point of view that diverges from group norms. Taken to an extreme, it is like excommunicating someone from the community. But is it right to target a person with whom you disagree and use the Internet to express your outrage, get people fired, or pushed out of certain circles? Some argue that it is good practice, since taking others to task is part of the democratic process and simply a manifestation of free speech. It also enables those who are of low social status to challenge provocateurs who are traditionally powerful beyond reach, like Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein, who were considered untouchable in Hollywood before the #M eToo movement. However, others argue that cancelling someone is an attempt to stifle another person’s free speech rights, and the very thing you might be calling him out for (bullying someone else, for example) is the very thing you are doing. There seems to be no way to decide who is right. In fact, cancel culture shows us that ethical discourse is problematic . On the one hand, it seems subjective. Should we cancel everyone with whom we disagree? Where do we draw the line? Is it even possible to do so? If you go down this path, and if you succeed, the only person left at the end of the path will be you, since there is nobody else who is exactly like you in outlook or worldview. If you were the sole arbiter of all moral and non-moral conflict, morality would be reduced to something totally relative to you. Yet, that is contradictory to the starting position you took when you started cancelling others, since you would have had to assume that you are fully right and others wrong. But, if everyone took the same position, everyone’s position would be equally right, and nobody would be wrong. On the