Sociology Blog Post 2

This week we didn't really have a topic to blog about. It was up to us. So I decided to blog about the boat activity that we did in class. I was always curious about certain incidents like that. What would people do or what causes people to do what they do. Why wouldn't the soldier be saved because of his life, or why wouldn't the crew be willing to give up their lives so that others could live. Why were the people so intent on saving the young couple but not the elderly couple? What prompted these actions? I believe it is because people are too easy to pushover. During the activity, when certain people took charge and started raising their voices, others either had two options. A) Follow the people who voiced their opinions the loudest or B) Be silent and hope that no one would notice you. In the end, it was observed that human nature is either to be dominate or be dominated. I have also noted that people are not very convincing and go by impulse rather than trying to figure out something else. We value young life, but we do not consider anything outside of the picture. And that is something that should be valued equally.