How is fear used as a tool to manipulate people both as groups and as individuals? Provide evidence to prove your claim.
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Nick Fedak
10/7/2014 02:27:29 am
Fear can be a persuading way to make someone do something they wont normally do. They can be threatened which will manipulate them to do the task unwillingly, but they know they could be hurt if they didn't. Therefore they go against what they think is right due to the presence of fear. A group of people, for example those in 2001 who were against war but once they experienced the fear the attack on the twin towers created, they knew it was enough and time to act. They started to encourage the execution of the leader who ordered the 9/11 attack, Osama Bin Laden. Fear is a manipulator of our actions and how we react to certain situations such as, life or death.
Alexis Freel
10/9/2014 11:06:28 am
Fear is a very strong and powerful thing. It can persuade people to do anything they normally would never do, but they would do anyways so their would be no following catastrophic actions. A group of people, such as the Isis, would use fear to their advantage. Unfortunately these people would kill, or cut innocent peoples heads off, and record it so they can send it to people to create fear putting them above everyone else. People are now to afraid to travel to other countries because of these people. This gives them what they want, to get rid of the people who do not believe their religion. Fear can consume a person, you just need to know how to control or stand up to it.
Jessica Isberg
10/7/2014 08:13:52 am
Fear is used to manipulate individuals by causing a change to a reaction, usually influenced by one or more people. For example if you were in a situation where you were afraid of heights , you probably wouldn't go on a ski lift. However, if you were with a group of friends and they were all telling you you'll be ok there is nothing to be afraid of you might go ahead and do that putting fear behind you , or out of fear that you could be made fun of because your not doing what everyone else is going. As groups fear often manipulates decisions because you are more likely to be less afraid in certaint situations than you would be by yourself. If a big dog you have never seen before came up to you on the street walking home from school alone you might be afraid and have fear that the dog will hurt you. If you were with your friends you might not even be thinking about what the possibilities are the dog could hurt you are, you would most Likely be more concerned about what your going to do next with your friends. Threatening is another major aspect to fear, if you are being threatened you might act on something you would not do before out of fear of the unknown and what might happen. Fear Is a big influence on decisions we make today.
Ariella Bourdeau
10/7/2014 10:47:06 am
Fear is something that comes from within, but is triggered by external devices. It can push people into withholding who they are or what they can do. As a group, fear can make somebody afraid of being the first, or standing up for yourself. It manipulates you into hiding. In "Divergent" by Veronica Roth, one of the first acts as a Dauntless member is to jump off a roof and into a hole, not knowing what is at the bottom. Everyone is too afraid to jump, in fear of not making it out alive. Tris ignores that fear and is the first to jump. Something so small, something you cannot see, that has no physical stature, can have so much control over a person's actions. Fear affects our mind in more ways than we know. When a person is living in fear, he/she is living a life of doubt and pessimism. Take Al from "Divergent." He was afraid that he was going to be cut from Dauntless, so he committed suicide. Fear isn't something that you can get rid of, but you can take control of it instead of letting it take control of you.
Zach Lanza
10/7/2014 01:49:45 pm
Fear is a very powerful thing and it can manipulate individual people as well as groups of people. Individuals can be so feared about some one or something that is can cause them to down actions no usual for them or maybe even things that are illegal and not what they want to do. If someone is being bullied in school they can be so scared of someone that they embarrass their-self. They also could end up going to extremes and decide not to live on this Earth anymore. Fear can effect groups of people by making them feel like they are not like everyone else. They may think that if someone who is famous or is very well known by people does something that may be right or not, those people my feel like they need to join the bandwagon and do the same thing. This can cause people to be who they are not. Fear isn't just a scary feeling, it can change a person. Fear effects anyone as a whole.
Lucas Kaine
10/7/2014 02:00:46 pm
Fear is an emotion that can easily make someone do something they don't want to do. Fear can make people change their opinions on something or make them scared to not do something for someone. Also, fear can make someone make someone else do something they don't want to do. For example if someone said that they were going to take away your TV privileges if you didn't clean your room, then you would be scared to lose those privileges; in turn making you clean your room. Another example, in real life, is like earlier in time like, "If you don't trade with our civilization, then we will burn down yours". Fear is a really effective manipulator and persuading method today.
Rachel Lamore
10/7/2014 02:12:49 pm
Fear is used in negative peer pressure in groups and against individuals. When people are being pressured in to doing something, they are, most of the time, scared of doing whatever it is they are being manipulated to do. Sometimes, it is harder when you’re with a group of people, for it might be more people who are pressuring you to do something you fear. However, when you are alone, you may be more independent in decision making, and you’ll go with your gut and choose the right decision. For example, if someone is at a party, they are bound to do what their friends do, like smoke or drink. Nonetheless, if the person was alone, they wouldn't even think about doing anything like that. Sometimes, it is not best to “face your fears”, for they might be things you should fear.
Brittany Blakeman
10/8/2014 02:31:21 am
fear is used as a tool to manipulate people in many different cruel and psychotic ways. it's seen way too often in kidnappings the kidnapper says "don't scream or I'll kill you" so then this scares the person into not screaming and they stay put, fearing for their life. a person can act a certain way just because they are scared of something, most commonly someone doing something. this form of manipulation is a way to mess with someone's and mind and train them to not do a certain thing. using fear as a form of manipulation can make someone your slave follow all of your rules. fear is a very effective yet cruel way to manipulate somebody.
Deanna Miklos
10/8/2014 08:23:27 am
Fear is a very powerful thing. People are easily manipulated when they are scared because they want to find a quick and easy solution to their problem, or the reason why they are scared. People can be manipulated in groups like when the government wants people to do something they could scar them by telling them they would not have a good future if they did not cooperate with them. Then people being scared that they wouldn't have a good future would just blindly agree. But with manipulating single people, they could be scared for themselves or for others. Like if someone threatened them or threatened to do something to their loved ones or family, they would obviously do what ever to make them and themselves safe. A great example of how fear manipulates peoples decisions would be the movie Would You Rather. The movie shows how a sister would do anything to try and get money for her sickly brother to get the operations done for him even if its getting herself or other people hurt because she's too scared for him to die. Fear is such a powerful thing because it really manipulates peoples thought process, and it makes them make decisions they might not have made if they were not so scared.
Rebecca Rinaldi
10/8/2014 11:03:39 am
Fear is commonly used to pressure people and mess with their minds. Using a person's fear, someone else can easily manipulate that person into doing something they might not have wanted to do. For example threatening people falls under this category. Using what their afraid of against them is almost threatening them. This happens to groups of people as well. For example, Hitler made people fear the loss of their safety, so they followed his ways and went with his discrimination and crimes. He manipulated them by using fear. Many people use this tool to manipulate other people. 10/8/2014 12:20:21 pm
Fear is a tool that usually does more bad than good. Fear can be used in two different ways. The first being for enjoyment as in a haunted house or rock climbing. Fear manipulates for worse with peer pressure involved. This will usually involve a group scaring someone into doing something that they are not comfortable with. When somebody alone is in panic or fear they go with the option that will benefit them now but not always later. For example, if someone is forced to be an accomplice to a crime, technically, they didn't have to help but they knew it might have saved their life at that time.
Katelyn Capodagli
10/8/2014 12:49:16 pm
Fear can be a feeling of not fitting in with others. For example, you can be in a group and have claustrophobia, the fear of closed in spaces, and have to go in an elevator. When the elevator gets stuck you all the sudden start panicking, and your friends start laughing at you. This fear is the fear of not being accepted among others. Fear can manipulate people individually when they go out with someone and are afraid of what others may think of them. This can cloud their judgment on people in our society.
Rocco Veltri
10/8/2014 02:10:09 pm
Fear is used as a tool to manipulate people by making people afraid of what would happen to them if they do not do what the person threatening them tells them to do. People are more afraid of the consequences of not doing something then the consequences of doing it. An example of how fear is used to manipulate an individual is when a person is robbing a bank and tells a worker "give me all the money or I'll shoot you". The worker is more afraid of getting shot then giving up all the money. An example of how fear is used to manipulate a group is when a baseball coach says "get a run this inning or you all have to run a lap." The team is afraid of upsetting the coach and does not want to run a lap, so they try as hard as they can to get a run. These are just two examples of how fear is used to manipulate people.
Michelle Astudillo
10/8/2014 02:14:23 pm
Fear can take over your body in a split second. It is such a powerful emotion out of the many that we have. People can use fear to control each other which is sick but its actually used a lot in society. You have the fear of failing a class or not getting any good grades and that fear triggers you to try your best on tests, homework, quizzes etc. That fear manipulates a huge group of students to start taking school seriously to have a great future in front of them and not have a poor lifestyle. As individuals it affects us personally. It can make us do things we are not even sure of or don't want to do because of the fear of being judged by others. It could be something silly like the type of clothing you want to wear. You have that constant fear that people are just critiquing you at all times and that they won't like you. In the end, that fear could be making you paranoid and people think your pretty cool. Everyone takes fear differently and everyone also has at least one fear because that's what makes us human. Fear persuades us in a lot of unique ways.
Mariah Swiski
10/8/2014 02:38:56 pm
Fear is used as a tool to manipulate people both in groups as well as separate individuals. Fear controls your decision making process. People are easily manipulated under the influence fear because fear is used as a power over people. When we are afraid we "obey." An example of fear being used as a power over people making it easy to manipulate them is peer pressure. Saying things to people like "you won't be cool if you don't do this" or things like "if you do that i'll tell on you and you'll be in big trouble". Fear affects our thought process. An example of group manipulation due to fear is college. People are told if you don't go to college you won't go far in life. Letting fear get the best of them they make the decision based upon their thoughts when they are scared. Fear makes us the utensils of dominance. Allowing fear to control your thought process and assist in your decision making process will not only affect your future but it could also mean you miss out on things in life. Fear is the easiest most common way to manipulate people.
Samantha DeGennaro
10/8/2014 02:52:58 pm
Fear is an emotion that can easily be manipulated. When fear is shown people use that to their advantage, they force someone else to do something they wouldn't normally do. Fear can come in ways that may seem like nothing but in the end are huge. Everyone has insecurities and if someone know their insecurities they can use it against them by back mail or telling them lies. Then you have the victim acting like a puppet tying to protect themselves. People can also have people of importance to them threatened and they'll do anything to protect their loved ones. Fear is the controller and the victim is the puppet. Someone else is in control of your life when fear is involved. Some times its for the good and sometimes its for the worst.
Jaden Diaz
10/9/2014 01:57:23 am
Fear has the capability to manipulate people as a group due to its chain reaction effect. When you have convinced one member of the group to be frightened it simply causes others that are in that group to feel the same way. This occurs almost like gossip or rumors. The fear is spread to multiple people. Fear can also manipulate a group if it is caused in a great extent or tragedy. For instance, the dreadful event that took place September 11, 2001 affected millions living in the U.S. due to its damage and harm on so many people. It caused people in our country to think that we didn’t have enough protection or security. It made us feel unsure about whether or not we are safe from our enemies. Fear is compelled to manipulate people as individuals as well as groups because it makes innocent people think that if they don’t do exactly what they are supposed to do then there will be a punishment. Something as easy as telling your child to clean up their room or they won’t get dessert after dinner can manipulate a child into constantly making sure their room is clean so they will always get dessert. However, manipulating individuals has occurred in much more serious and horrific ways. For example, Hitler manipulated all of the Jews into listening to him, as if he was their leader. They knew what would happen to them if the rules were not followed. Therefore they obeyed Hitler because they were too afraid of the consequence.
Zach Falcon
10/9/2014 12:12:07 pm
Fear is one of the most vulnerable emotions humans express. It can be sparked easily at any moment, be it a phobia, being scared of a movie, or even scared to ask a question. Humans actually attempt at making others feel fear, through maybe surprise, intimidation, threats, anything. People can create fear from the most simplistic ideas or out of nowhere. For example, the idea of a man wearing a hockey mask was a norm until Friday the 13th released. Also who would even think that RELIGION can also be a factor of fear. Its a vague rule though, if you're good you go to heaven, etc. but if not you end up in Hell, the Underworld, etc. Fear has been a tool and a way of menacing people for a very long time.
Hugh Devine
10/9/2014 08:01:00 am
Fear is used to control people into doing things that they don't want to, such as rob a bank or murder someone etc. Say a person is afraid of people with guns or axes, one person can threat another person to do something for them or else for the rest of their life a guy with an axe will break into your house or something like that. The reason someone can be manipulated so easily is because they will do things they don't want to or either being scared is because they don't like and quickly get away from the fear that they have. Also, people might have fear of one certain person, like a family might have a fear of someone that murdered one of their family members Fear is mostly to pressure someone into doing good on a test or a quiz or homework even, maybe even a game there's fear in everything in life.
Skylar Orban
10/9/2014 08:49:25 am
Fear has a way of grasping people and won't let go. Many people use it for manipulating people into doing things that they want to be done. For instance, a bank robber might put a gun to an accountant's head and manipulate them into giving them all the money in the bank. The person was terrified to get shot and killed, so they did what they were told, hoping to have their life spared. Fear is used everyday by everyone. Students use fear toward their friends sometimes jokingly, sometimes seriously. Teachers use fear toward students so they study and do their homework. Even parents try to use fear to manipulate their kids. These ways of fear aren't as harsh as Hilter manipulating Germany, but they are still ways. Well let's see, fear is a useful tool if you know how to use it. You can use it to control a man's mind. If you drive enough fear into his mind, it can reach their heart. If you control a mans heart, you can get him to do anything for you. You can make him follow you into a war, or get him to do things that he would never do otherwise. Hitler scared countries into doing his will. He scared an army into fighting for him. those who didn't support his cause were scared into it, or into running away from him, just to yet again get caught by the endless reign of Adolph Hitler.
Jake Suttile
10/9/2014 09:43:00 am
Fear is used as a tool to manipulate as a group and an individual. Fear is something that can change your life forever, even though you can get rid of it. Fear is something that an individual chooses to be afraid of, and could frighten someone severely. Fear can be used as a weapon. An example of this is tragedy's like World War 2. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, it caused fear to the whole nation and brought panic. Sooner or later, people were scared to even leave their houses because of the fear of something happening like that again. The economy was low and the government was falling, which scared millions of people to this day Fear is a very powerful thing and can. cause a whole nation to be scared to death. An example of fear to an individual is probably being turned down, or to have the fear that someone can lose their best friend or parents in a blink of an eye. Fear affects these people both physically and mentally, and that's why fear is one of the most dangerous things in the world, and everyone has one, no matter what
Alyssa Morgan
10/9/2014 11:33:05 am
Fear is used to manipulate many people into doing many things they probably wouldn't do if they weren't scared. For example during the Holocaust some of the people in Germany went along with Hitler's views so they weren't killed. Hitler used the fear of the people in Germany to his advantage. Another example could be crime cases. Many times the person committing the crime originally has someone do something for them. The person doing it probably wouldn't If they weren't scared of being hurt by the criminal in some way. Fear is also used on a daily bases in many of our lives. For example one may not wear what they want because they are afraid of being judged by other people. One may not say what they are thinking because maybe someone wont like what they are saying and they are afraid they wont like them. Fear can manipulate an individual into being someone they are not.
Mackenzie McCue
10/9/2014 12:20:54 pm
Fear is used to manipulate and persuade individuals to act a certain way or perform a certain task. Fear twists the mind in ways no other emotion does. Although people don't intentionally act negatively, fear almost forces thoughts upon the brain. When under a tremendous amount of pressure or fearing someone/something you try protect yourself from the thing you fear. For example, historical events such as the Holocaust support this claim. Some Nazis realized all the harm they did to Jews was wrong, but couldn't turn their backs away from their main commander, Adolf Hitler. If anyone wasn't in 100% agreement with Adolf Hitlers plan you would be killed. Therefore, the fear of dying persuaded the Nazis to listen to Hitlers orders. Furthermore, fear also manipulates groups of people. Usually in a group of people leader and then followers. The followers in a group of people usually agree with leader even though they actually don't agree. Fear is what makes a person agree with another so they're considered "cool" or so they aren't judged on their thought/opinion. This type of situation occurs a lot within schools (particularly with girls). Fear is a very strong emotion that takes your mind to all sorts of places.
Joe Welsh
10/9/2014 12:46:21 pm
Fear is commonly used to make a person do something they wouldn't under normal circumstances. Threatening someone is even something used by kids if perhaps they they had a toy taken from them. They might say something like " I'll tell the teacher on you". This is just a minor use of fear. A more major use, is ,for example, "put your hands up or I'll shoot!" Using fear by threatening someone can manipulate them to do terrible things. This is seen in everyday life and it should be stopped.
Gabriela Lombari
10/9/2014 12:50:24 pm
Fear is something we all have inside of us, whether we show it or not. It is a fight against yourself and mind or others. Fear is used against us to persuade and manipulate is into doing something that we nessarily don't want to do. For example in a book I had once read, a man had abused a women and threatened to kill her boyfriend if she told anyone about it. This is an example of fear being used to it's max by threatening to take away the one thing she had loved most. For the girl it was a fight against herself to decide because if she told someone she could get help for herself, but there was the chance of her loved one getting hurt, and if she didn't tell anyone the events of her being abused would just continue, but her loved one would be safe. She had chosen to tell the police, her boyfriend had came close to death with the man almost strangling him before the police came but that was a chance she took. Everyone takes fear in a different way, some would never even think of telling because they were too fearful of their loved one getting hurt. In conclusion fear is a sick crazy thing that people could easily take advantage of.
JARED
10/11/2014 06:13:37 am
Fear is inside all of us whether we show that we are scared or not. Fear is used as a tool because when people are scared of something then they tend to avoid the thing that they fear. The attacks on Semptember 11, 2001 scared people severely. The people in our country were scared thinking that they weren't safe and that our countries security is not good enough. The Terrorists that caused these attacks used this fear as a weapon. Fear affects individuals as well as groups because when a person is scared then they can be easily manipulated because they will do anything to escape their fear. In conclusion fear is a very powerful tool that can cause a lot of damage.
Matt Venable
1/13/2015 11:46:57 pm
Fear is used to manipulate groups as well as individuals because fear is a very powerful emotion that can easily control a persons actions. If someone is scared or in fear of something their mind will tell them to not be apart of that. for example if someone is scared of a spider they will scream and run away trying to be as far from it as possible without thinking twice.In groups of people fear can be used to sell items. For example when the World Wars were being fought people used other peoples fear to convince them that their apocalypse protection was the best thing to buy at that time. Fear is often used to make people believe in what is not necessarily true. If someone is really in fear they will believe whatever they think will help them. Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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