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Bluelighter
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Would you commit a crime if you could get away with it?
Moreover if a crime was not a crime would you still do it if the repercussions were not justice served on behalf of society?
If you were 10,000 strong and you could storm a building, would you do it? And would you consider your actions to be indepedent on simply that of the group? How would this affect your decision making thereafter? Would you start to do things other people were doing simply because they were doing them?
Basic questions like prove what we already know about human behaviour. You don't even need to answer them because most people would answer yes without a doubt, they just perhaps wouldn't write it here because it's an imagined situation and they live in a world with rules that do not allow them to do those kinds of things. Just the fact I'm saying this alone should really open up the fabric of reality behind the norms, values and beliefs we hold about what is acceptable and what isn't, what is right and what isn't and consequently how people will behave as a result.
Humans are herded. We all know this. We don't like to accept it but we know it's true. Most of us blindly follow things because we assume everybody else is doing it and what everybody else is doing is right because they've been told by someone else that it's right or they assume someone else assumes it's right who assumes someone else assumes it's right. We are group animals and we respond in that way throughout life. We react based on how others behave. We band together to do things, negatively or positively. We experience peer pressure and the desire to conform. These things are used against us on a daily basis. This in and of itself is not a bad thing. It's when it's abused and when people are not aware of it and how it affects their life that it becomes an issue.
Moreover if a crime was not a crime would you still do it if the repercussions were not justice served on behalf of society?
If you were 10,000 strong and you could storm a building, would you do it? And would you consider your actions to be indepedent on simply that of the group? How would this affect your decision making thereafter? Would you start to do things other people were doing simply because they were doing them?
Basic questions like prove what we already know about human behaviour. You don't even need to answer them because most people would answer yes without a doubt, they just perhaps wouldn't write it here because it's an imagined situation and they live in a world with rules that do not allow them to do those kinds of things. Just the fact I'm saying this alone should really open up the fabric of reality behind the norms, values and beliefs we hold about what is acceptable and what isn't, what is right and what isn't and consequently how people will behave as a result.
Humans are herded. We all know this. We don't like to accept it but we know it's true. Most of us blindly follow things because we assume everybody else is doing it and what everybody else is doing is right because they've been told by someone else that it's right or they assume someone else assumes it's right who assumes someone else assumes it's right. We are group animals and we respond in that way throughout life. We react based on how others behave. We band together to do things, negatively or positively. We experience peer pressure and the desire to conform. These things are used against us on a daily basis. This in and of itself is not a bad thing. It's when it's abused and when people are not aware of it and how it affects their life that it becomes an issue.
