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Peer Pressure Makes Us Bound To Do Wrong Things
Name: A N M Sajedul Alam
ID: 12201027, Section : 07
BRAC University

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“How am I going to do this with having some humanity in me?” this is a question which I
often asked myself before doing many works, though they are not right. I have to do just for peer
pressure. Life will be much easier if there will not be any peer pressure and we can be with our
full freedom always. Peer pressure such has an impact on us that we can not but do whether it is
right or wrong. It is actually creates from ethnicity, culture, religion and so on issues of any
society. For only peer pressure sometimes we have to eliminate someone from society who does
not have any fault, we have to keep ourselves month shut after seeing a spot dead or accident or
killing sometimes we have to give many acceptances to many illegal issues like corruption, child
labors, illegal organ trafficking.
In our society, it can be seen that if there is any incident occurred; people do not support
the right person for just only having some peer pressure on their head. Then the wrong person
gets the support from people and police takes the person who is not actually guilty. Most of time,
it happens mainly for political power, which creates great peer impact on every people of
society. For example, in our country many murders are happened but there is not any judgement
for the killers. The killers are saved always by polical powers.
Secondly, now-a-days, it is common to all that we have to accept many things with keeping our
mouth shut and seeing as blinds. That means we can not judge by ourselves about what is right
and what is wrong. For example, the killing of Bishwajit was happened in-front of many people.
The killers were hitting him randomly by some heavy dangerous weapons, for which Bishwajit
was shouting. Though people could hear his shout, none came to help him or rescue him. It is
mainly for peer pressure, because if any single one came to there to stop it, or tried to protest it,
by seeing it, some more people would come to help. Rather, anyone did not take the first step.

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Thus we have to accept many wrong deeds as with keeping our mouth shut. Rapson.R.L(2005)
said that people tend to percieve “Social Justice,” “Fairness,” and “Kindness and Compassion,”
from their own point of view. “In the 5th century BC, the Greek historian Herodotus (trans.
1942) observed, “The Greeks have been from very ancient times distinguished from the that the
deprived deserve the misery and suffering they experience.
Thirdly, day by day, many illegal issues like child labor, corruption, illegal organ
trafficking and so on are increasing. No one is going to protest against them strongly, or say a
single word to stop them. Some writers only write articles on newspapers and some other
publications are published. It is an irony of fate that in real life no one is going to come forward
to the issues to solve the issue. It is all about peer pressure, which comes from our around,
people who are from same age, same society; because if they do so, they can be harmed by the
powerful people. That is why peer pressure makes such big impact on us like a chain on our foot
to do nothing by our own wish or using freedom. There is no use of our humanity or knowledge
or ethical values, because of peer pressure, we have to do that what peer pressure makes us to do
always. Hatfield E.(2005) said that in social psychology, there is perhaps no topic that has been
explored more intensively than the links between anger and hatred and man’s inhumanity to
man. For a workaday illustration of the links between anger and hatred and cruelty and
aggression, consider this transcript of Rush Limbaugh’s May 14, 2004, commentary when
discussing his angry and nationalistic reaction to hearing of the Americans’ torture of the
Abu Ghraib Prison prisoners in Baghdad, Iraq, and the subsequent killing of an American
hostage.

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Through peer pressure really makes us to do many wrong things, it also help us
sometimes to take decisions quickly. Society already had given some rules to us. By following
them, we can easily make our life easier. There are a lot of people in society and they can not be
wrong at the same time. A decision can be wrong which is taken by one but a decision can be
wrong which is taken by one but a decision rarely can be wrong when it is taken by many people.
People are from society has to follow the rules and culture, because they have to be organized
and disciplined to be united and keep the society healthy.
If we all have ethics and humanity then what is the need of social rules and laws and peer
pressure which do not let us do the right thing. We can make our life easier by using our own
knowledge. Then why we have to follow some of rules which are strict as well as are not ethical
at all. Moreover, we can be blind, deaf and silent, if society takes the decision. Then we have to
take our own decision by following our own judgment. We should not follow a wrong rule and a
wrong judgment of a society. For being organized and to be disciplined, we do not have to
follow blindly society. We have our own brain and we are not illiterate that we do not understand
how we have to stay organized and disciplined and united.
Every ethnicity, culture, religion has their own perspectives of wrong and right, it
can not be equal. At the end, corruption, child labors, illegal organ trafficking should not be
accepted for peer pressure. We should take ourselves strongly against them.

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References
Hatfield E. (2005, Social Justice and Clash of Cultures, Psychology Inquiry, Vol. 16, University
of Hawaii.)
From : EBS Host , Ayesha Abed Library Online Resource Server, BRAC University.
Rapson R. L. (2005, Social Justice and Clash of Cultures, Psychology Inquiry, Vol. 16,
University of Hawaii.)
From : EBS Host , Ayesha Abed Library Online Resource Server, BRAC University.