it is a social unwritten contract between you and I that if I run into danger while out, someone will help me...or my child or loved one...this one incident tells us NOT so...
It is agape love, love of neighbor. Jesus said the second greatest commandment after love of God, is "love your neighbor as yourself." Jesus gave the parable of the good Samaritan as an example for us. The Samaritan assisted a total stranger at his own expense. Jesus indicated that love of neighbor begins with love of ourself. Perhaps this is an indication of the self-loathing felt by many people. Negative self-image is projected onto others. I always say, "If you're a piece of shit, all you can do is shit on everyone else. There is a psychological explanation for all behaviors. I hold a PSYCH degree.
Heroism is not, as Americans are taught, surrendering to the enemy because your plane was shot down, then working for the Viet Cong while you're in a POW camp, before later becoming a zsenator and running for President. It's not butchering civilians in a drone strike while seated at a terminal thousands of miles away, because you were only following orders.
Philip Zimbardo, of Stanford Prison Experiment fame, said in a TED talk on the subject of evil:
"To be a hero, you have to learn to be a deviant, because you're always going against the conformity of the group. Heroes are ordinary people whose social actions are extraordinary. Those people who act. The key to heroism is two things: A. you have to act when other people are passive. B. you have to act socio-centrically, not egocentrically."
In the Darley-Batson study (1973), which was inspired by the BibleтАЩs tale involving a Samaritan woman who helped Jesus, Darley and Batson met with a group of American seminarians, individually, and asked each one to prepare a short, extemporaneous talk on a given biblical theme, then walk over to a nearby building to present it. Along the way to the presentation, each student ran into a man slumped in an alley, head down, eyes closed, coughing and groaning. The question was, who would stop and help?
"The authors state: тАЬIndeed, on several occasions, a seminary student going to give his talk on the parable of the Good Samaritan literally stepped over the victim as he hurried on this way.тАЭ
I feel so ashamed to her parents...
it is a social unwritten contract between you and I that if I run into danger while out, someone will help me...or my child or loved one...this one incident tells us NOT so...
It is agape love, love of neighbor. Jesus said the second greatest commandment after love of God, is "love your neighbor as yourself." Jesus gave the parable of the good Samaritan as an example for us. The Samaritan assisted a total stranger at his own expense. Jesus indicated that love of neighbor begins with love of ourself. Perhaps this is an indication of the self-loathing felt by many people. Negative self-image is projected onto others. I always say, "If you're a piece of shit, all you can do is shit on everyone else. There is a psychological explanation for all behaviors. I hold a PSYCH degree.
thank you David, it is as if we need to learn here and form this, we as a society must heal from this, if we ever can. I dont know
Heroism is not, as Americans are taught, surrendering to the enemy because your plane was shot down, then working for the Viet Cong while you're in a POW camp, before later becoming a zsenator and running for President. It's not butchering civilians in a drone strike while seated at a terminal thousands of miles away, because you were only following orders.
Philip Zimbardo, of Stanford Prison Experiment fame, said in a TED talk on the subject of evil:
"To be a hero, you have to learn to be a deviant, because you're always going against the conformity of the group. Heroes are ordinary people whose social actions are extraordinary. Those people who act. The key to heroism is two things: A. you have to act when other people are passive. B. you have to act socio-centrically, not egocentrically."
In the Darley-Batson study (1973), which was inspired by the BibleтАЩs tale involving a Samaritan woman who helped Jesus, Darley and Batson met with a group of American seminarians, individually, and asked each one to prepare a short, extemporaneous talk on a given biblical theme, then walk over to a nearby building to present it. Along the way to the presentation, each student ran into a man slumped in an alley, head down, eyes closed, coughing and groaning. The question was, who would stop and help?
"The authors state: тАЬIndeed, on several occasions, a seminary student going to give his talk on the parable of the Good Samaritan literally stepped over the victim as he hurried on this way.тАЭ
this is very informative