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 on…
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 Bible’s 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: “Indeed, 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.”
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 Bible’s 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: “Indeed, 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.”
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