I'm saying to be a hero it means you step accross the line and are willing to make … - Philip Zimbardo

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When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

Philip Zimbardo

I'm saying to be a hero it means you step accross the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.

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We all like to think that the line between good and evil is impermeable--that people who do terrible things, such as commit murder, treason, or kidnapping, are on the evil side of this line, and the rest of us could never cross it. But the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram studies revealed the permeability of that line. Some people are on the good side only because situations have never coerced or seduced them to cross over.

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Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary
who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

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The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

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If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.

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If you want to change a person, you've got to change the situation.

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