This seems to be a direct result of our strange tendency to classify people, objects, and even ourselves. Sullivan also accurately explains how a victim’s hatred can more easily become destructive, because being victimized builds up aggression. This is most commonly noticeable with children, when those who were bullied often become bullies
Yolonda Easiley Mr. Philips English 1113 Essay # 4 July 24, 2012 Evil Can peer pressure make a person become evil without them knowing? In this essay I will speak on how easy it is to change a person’s moral conscience. Also are humans just pure evil from birth and if the right person comes along can that bring that evil nature that is in us to the surface? Humans are born to serve, so having an authority figures commanding us to do an evil act, in my opinion, it is peer pressure that most likely will be followed. In the short story, written by ZZ Packer, litter black girls are prime examples of how one can become engaged in acts of evil through peer pressure.
One way to overcome this feeling of helplessness when they feel wronged is to get “even”. They may not have control over what the other person said or did to them but they have a feeling of control in the midst of their vengeful act, Another reason a person may do a violent vengeful act is to get attention when he feels disregarded or treated insignificantly. Many of these acts occur between people who know each other very well including intimate partners. The biggest theme throughout the story was revenge.
First off, the argument states that power corrupts all people, is a blanket statement, what it really is ones interpretation of an opinion. A speaker can influence a crown and in the right setting these words and be very powerful. This statement is not true for the fact that there have been people who have had power and have not been corrupt. There are good and bad people history just tends to remember the ones who were using power in a corrupt way. Wording is very important and if someone were to want to word this in a way to make it accurate he or she would say, “Power may be evil because it can corrupt some people”.
It also shows that one man with evil intentions can make a big impact, and can use charisma to make others do bad things. The fact that good people can be deceived into doing bad things, without their knowledge uncovers a dark side of human nature and it uncovers many of the dangers of mob mentality. Distinctions between different peoples can lead to discrimination and any number of different peoples can end up on the bad side of the conflict. In addition, the story shows that when a person is put in a place of power they intend to abuse it. Who is to say that this atrocity will not reappear in much larger form.
Albert Einstein once said, “We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.” Being human is making mistakes. We make mistakes because we are capable of being scared, overconfident, zealous, and joyous. This myriad array of emotions both coerces and condemns our every action, dooming us to a life of acting on impulse and striving for perfection. Emotions can push us to do great things, yet also tempt us towards evil. Our capacity to act beyond primal instinct is what makes us human.
Hate crimes affect the victim as well as the community. People commit hate crimes for various reasons; they are unwelcoming of those who aren’t of the same characteristics per se. They feel the need to bully those who they feel are beneath them to compensate for their own short comings. Hate crimes affect individuals from all walks of life. Including but not limited to those of religious, race, and sexual orientation.
It festers in a culture of silence, intimidation, and fear. The perpetrators depend on targets keeping quiet about the abusive behaviour. Though both prejudice and discrimination are carried out on various levels by individuals or groups, discrimination is considered to be more damaging. Discrimination can be felt or perceived in different scenarios such getting poor service in a restaurant or being accused of doing something wrong at school or at the
This can also tie into cynicism, in ways that a police officer can approach his job in a cynical way. Punish others for
People are also able to vote on the comment in terms of whether they are true or false. Invisibility and anonymity provide users with the courage of doing things that they wouldn’t normally do. People who are hidden behind the mask of anonymity are usually more imminent about their life and tend to act very differently as they would in their normal lives where their identity is known, one of the reasons for this is it allows the individuals to merge in to different social settings that their placed in. Many individuals feel down and disheartened due to the lack of sociality or conversation which results to them turning to violent forms of communication like insults, threats and hostile language. Not only in social networking but even in other online scenarios invisibility and anonymity plays a huge part, a person could be browsing through things like messages boards, chat rooms, status comments and others would have no idea the individual was there at all.