- Dec 4, 2009
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I can't really condone violence, but....How did the players not just snap and knock him out? I can't believe that if I was having basketballs chucked at me and being swore at, I wouldn't just lose it one day.
Humans in general are built to defer to authority. One of the most powerful lessons I have ever received was from my teach my sophomore year in high school. We had been talking about WW2 and at this point in his history class the question invariably comes up how all of Germany could follow a man and such crazy plans. The teacher did this one example every year and asks that it never be shared with the younger kids so that the power of the message resonates. He asks 3 volunteers (one small geekier kid and two more muscular kids) to help him put this on. He sees the geekier kid doing homework from another class and starts yelling at him and berating him. He then tells the more muscular boys to drag him out and throw him into the hall. they do this demonstration and not a single one of us said a word. We all knew it was wrong, but he was our teacher... our one in charge. Obviously after it was over he explained what was going on. But I know personally at that moment I now understood how people can let others get away with stuff they shouldn't.