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15. Explain why a person who is not free is not responsible for his action. 16. How did lessening encouragement to labor foster indolence among the Filipinos? 17. What is your opinion on the rules governing the permission to use firearms? 18. How did the miserly return for one's labor foster indolence? 19. How was "conflict of interests" harmful to the administration of the government? 20. Are the difficulties mentioned by Rizal similar to difficulties encountered today? Why? 21. Explain how trading with China was harmful to the people. 22. How was dislike for manual labor influenced by the rulers? 23. Was the attitude of the Filipinos on work good? Why? 24. How did gambling foster indolence among the Filipinos? 25. How did fiestas foster indolence among the Filipinos? 26. How did curtailment of individual liberty foster indolence? 27. How did the apathy of the government foster indolence among the Filipinos? 28. Explain how the ownership of the big estates by the friars fostered indolence among the Filipinos. 29. How did lack of moral support foster indolence? 30. How did deprivation of human dignity foster indolence?
31. Explain why lack of respect for human dignity is harmful. 32. Why did the Filipinos have the right to protest the deprivation of their human rights? 33. Explain why people and government are correlated and complementary. 34. Explain why indolence is a corollary derived from lack of stimulus and vitality. 35. How did the feeling of inferiority foster indolence among the Filipinos? 36. Explain how placing hopes on miracles was partly harmful to the Filipinos. 37. How did the vicious dressing of the intelligence and will foster indolence? 38. Why must the spirit of the Filipinos be free and their intelligence respected? 39. How did lack of an ideal for a good worker foster indolence among the Filipinos? 40. How did lack of national sentiment foster indolence among the Filipinos? 41. How did lack of national sentiment lead to the appointment of competent officials? 42. Explain why it was useless to solve the problem of indolence if there was no profound study of its causes. 43. Explain why good education and liberty can bring progress to the Filipinos.
Filipinos cannot be compared to Europeans, who live in cold countries and who must exert much more effort at work. An hour's work under the Philippine sun, he says, is equivalent to a day's work in temperate regions.
We can only serve our country by telling her the truth, however bitter it be, as a categorical and artificial denial cannot destroy a real and positive fact, despite the brilliance of the arguments, as a mere assertion is not enough to create an impossible thing.
There is no redemption unless based solidly on virtue.
Why do you think indolence among Filipinos should not be considered the cause of their backwardness?
The Filipino is the most active in the world will doubtless not repudiate that there work and struggles against the climate & Nature and against men. The Indolence is the effect of backwardness and troubles of experience by the country. The hot climate is reasonable predisposition for indolence
Why is it good to study the causes of indolence before proposing a remedy for it?
those who have dealt with the subject of indolence have been satisfied with denying or affirming it; we don't know anyone who has studied its causes. However, those who admit its existence and exaggerate it more or less have not failed to prescribe remedies taken here and there, from Java and other Dutch colonies, like the quack who, having seen a fever cured with a dozen sardines, prescribed this fish for every rise in temperature he observed on his patients.
A man can live any climate. Kill the European in hot country is the abuse of Liquors; they attempt to live by or according to the nature of his own country under the sky and sun.
Do you agree with Rizal that the problem of indolence must be thoroughly studied? Why? When the condition of the patient is examined after a long chronic illness, the
question may arise whether the weakening of the fibers and the debility of the organs are responsible for the persistence of the malady or its continuation is the effect of the poor treatment. The attending physician attributes the failure of his skill to the poor constitution of the patient, to the climate, to his surroundings, etc. On the other hand, the patient will attribute the aggravation of his illness to the method of treatment followed. Only the common men, the curious ones, will shake their heads unable to reach a decision. Something like this happens to the Philippine question. Instead of physician, read Philippines; instead of malady, indolence. While the patient breathes, we should not lose hope, and however late we may be, never is a conscientious study superfluous, at least, if she dies, the cause of death will be known. We are not trying to put all the blame on the physician and still less on the patient.
As we have already mentioned, if the predisposition due to the climate - a just and natural predisposition - did not exist, the race would disappear, a victim of excessive work in a tropical country.
The frequent wars, insurrections, and invasions have brought disorder to the communities. Chaos has been widespread, and destruction rampant.
Many Filipinos have also been sent abroad to fight wars for Spain or for expeditions. Thus, the population has decreased in number. Due to forced labor, many men have been sent to shipyards to construct vessels. Meanwhile, natives who have had enough of abuse have gone to the mountains. As a result, the farms have been neglected. The so-called indolence of Filipinos definitely has deeply rooted causes.
Man works for a purpose; remove the purpose and you reduce him to inaction,
Filipinos, according to Rizal, are not responsible for their misfortunes, as they are not their own masters. The Spanish government has not encouraged labor and trade, which ceased after the government treated the country's neighboring trade partners with great suspicion. Trade has declined, furthermore, because of pirate attacks and the many restrictions imposed by the government, which gives no aid for crops and farmers. This and the abuse suffered under encomenderos have caused many to abandon the fields. Businesses are monopolized by many government officials, red tape and bribery operate on a wide scale, rampant gambling is tolerated by the government. This situation is compounded by the Church's wrong doctrine which holds that the rich will not go to heaven, thus engendering a wrong attitude towards work. There has also been discrimination in education against natives. These are some of the main reasons that Rizal cites as causing the deterioration of values among the Filipinos.