Humans sometimes act in ways that they know are wrong, or immoral. They do this for various reasons, these reasons mostly revolve around conformity. Conformity is following rules or laws, following authority figures, or just going with the crowd. When you conform to any of those things you most likely think the act that you are doing is right because an authority figure is telling you to or everyone else is doing it so it must be right. That statement was proven by Solomon Asch’s conformity experiment. In his experiment a group of people were brought into a room to take a test, the answers were all shared out loud, however only one person was actually taking a test, the others were told to answer a certain incorrect answer intentionally. The …show more content…
It depends on your state of mind and the situation to determine if you should help or not. If it is the morally right thing to do then you should do it. However there are some situations the contradict my previous statement. “Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development” explain what the human mindset is in these said situations are, it makes you question if you should do something that doesn’t impact you, and if that action is morally right or not depending on the situation. There are six stages to moral development, at least one of the six correspnd to any situation or senario you can think of. However there are many obvious situations where you should probably help someone regardless if it directly impacts you are not. If someone drops all their paper and books on the ground, it is the right thing to do to help pick those papers up. So think, what if you had dropped all your papers on the ground, and no one helped you, how would that make you feel. Humans are supposed to help each other out, it helps to evolve our population into a caring and empathetic species. It goes back to what I was saying earlier, treat others how you want to be treated, it is supposed to make humans