Merchant of the Venice Anticipation Guide - Dogun Hong

Don't rely on outward appearances when making judgments.

I believe that this statement is fairly correct. Even though there are cases when all you need is to look and you can make a decision in a snap, it is important to not rely on visual appearances. I have seen many incidents where people just pretended to be someone else. As a result, you always need to remember that you need cannot just rely on looks. For example, in a video about an actor that pretended to be homeless but was giving out money, the purple often overlooked him and didn't even bother to know that he was giving our money.

Justice is always blind.

Justice can be blinded by many things. Emotion is one of the most common in my opinion. Often times when people all justice they see it as revenge. This can be caused by anger or sadness. In incidents where policemen harm those who are defenseless saying that they were protecting themselves, this shows that their believes often cloud their judgement and make them do regretting things. However I believe that not all justices are done blind. There are many people who give justice for the right purpose. 

A brotherly love between two friends can be just as strong as an intimate love between a man and a woman.

The two kinds of love in my opinion are different and I believe that they are not the same strength of love. There are certain things that divide the two apart. When you are married, you make a strong commitment to one another whereas friends come and go. As a result, I disagree with the statement.

You can break a promise as long as you have a good excuse.

I agree with this statement because you can never tell the future. There are many things in life that limit is from keeping our promise. In movies I have seen that people had to break promises in order to save another's life. Such as a father who was a policemen when he promised his child that he would watch the child's play but broke it because his work came first. Because of conditions like this, I think that people have an excuse to break a promise.

Love is blind.

Love can be blinding and can cloud you judgment many of the times. People sometimes go through extreme measures for their loved ones. In Hawaii five O, a crime was committed solely because of the suspect' inability to see that killing someone wasn't going to bring their lost one back. He was bound of everything around him and he couldn't tell what he was doing. Thinking that it was the right thing to do when it wasn't. Thus showing that love can be blind.

Stereotypes are often right.

Stereotypes seem to be more wrong than right. Especially between the races, people seem to have a lot of stereotypes. In my experience, I witness when men would often overlook women in a stereotype that women cannot play sports. As a result of this stereotype, it turned out to be that the women excelled at the sport more than the man. Thus saying that stereotypes are not right.
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is a good motto to live by. 
This statement is not something that I agree in. This is because I do not believe that because someone did something to you, you should not have to make them suffer the same thing. Contrasting to the statement, there is a saying that says to turn your cheek and be the bigger man. A wan for revenge is common but that should not allow you to do so. When I try to get back at my sister, I learned that all I get from trying to equal the play is punishment for the both of us.