This prompt really relates to how i feel about my service learning. Yes I am not giving up my life like a whistleblower, but I do feel that what I am doing gives me great relief that I am helping make the difference in this animal overpopulated world. Lynne who is the founder/director of The Milo Foundation, has given up her life to do this. For the past 15 years she has saved over 15,000 animals! And the numbers keep rising. She gets about 250 plus emails a day. She is usually on a short sleep schedule. She has really sacrificed having a life, like a whistleblower, to do what they love. Though a whistleblower might not like what they are doing they still give him their lives to keep doing the job.
This brings me to moral maturity. (69-70) To bear the criticism is what I have had to do at my service learning. This criticism that we will never be able to do enough. But I can turn it around and say at least we are doing something. This moral maturity is what I believe a whistleblower lacked. They took the rough job and bared the judgment through authority. The whistleblower's felt shameful due to them working for a company that really didn't care about the public. (73) This is one thing I am not. My service learning has opened so many doors for me. I feel proud at the end of the day knowing that I got to be apart of finding an animal his/her forever home.
"The worst thing I can think of to say about a whistleblower is that he or sh has become a whiner." (122) This made my jaw drop. For someone who had to bare so much emotional and self punishment don't you think they deserve to whine. I do. I agree that if they want to take action against a company then they would have to have courage and they can not let disagreement bog them down. I think that they should get to tell their stories, hardships, and self grief. In the end its a hard thing to judge just based off positionality.
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