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Originally Posted by Baz
Why do those "some" not follow the head pecker though?
What makes them free thinkers with the ability to know right from wrong and to use that compass as guidance?
What is the root of it?
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What Makes Someone Support a Bully?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-couch/201908/what-makes-someone-support-bully
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One study from social psychologists in Finland and California outlines three fairly standard responses to seeing someone being bullied:
Defending the victim
Remaining passive
Reinforcing the bully
Despite the moral value most of us place on defending a vulnerable person who is being bullied, many responders explained that a fear of retaliation—that is, fear that they would be attacked themselves—kept them from taking any action.
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I will admit to the "remaining passive" group many times, but I've also defended the victim and sometimes lost (
but also sometimes won).
I'd like to think that I've never followed a bully or been the bully myself, but you never know what other people think until you ask them, and their answers can be very surprising.
So to answer your question; FEAR
Fear can make someone join a group or do something to prove that they belong to that group.
Fear can also make someone NOT join a group, because they do not wish to have restrictions on their freedom and be forced into compliance and be dominated over.
Some people will only join a group if they can be the leader, again fear of being under someone else's thumb.
Name a person or group of persons and one can explain fear as the motivator if they wish to and work at it. It's not always apparent, but it's there.
Why do some people want harmony (
Conflict Avoidance)? Fear, fear of being singled out and being victimized.
Why do some people want conflict (
Combativeness), just too much testosterone? Fear, fear of being without, and having no rewards.
Maybe we are just wired to fight and cannot evolve above base animal instincts?
Some People Just Like to Fight
https://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2014/02/03/some-people-just-like-to-fight/
If things were as simple as those that seek conflict think they will not lose, and those that avoid conflict think they will not win it would be a much simpler world than it actually is.
When the person that looses thinks they have won (
because they fought), and the person that won thinks they have lost (
because they fought) we start to see differing values or the so-called moral compass at work.