Sacred Values And Conformity Analysis

Sacred values and conformity drives our choice about universe of obligation, by having strong sacred values it allows us to have certain ideas higher in our universe of obligation and conformity makes us want to have the same universe of obligation as everyone else. Sacred values are the biggest driving factor about our universe of obligation, the stronger the sacred value the closer the universe of obligation will be toward yourself. The first example would be the video we watched in class where a member of the Einsatzgruppen shot and killed many Jews. He said he knew it was wrong that he killed those people but he said he hated them so much that he did not care. The man said it had something to do when he lived on a farm as a kid and he …show more content…
This was a group who were German and denounced the Nazi’s and there actions toward the Jews. Many of the members of the White Rose had heard about the mass murder of Poland and disagreed with it. Hans Scholl was a soldier and saw the mistreatment of the Jews in forced labor camps and also he heard of all the Polish jews who were being sent to concentration camps. The members of the White Rose made leaflets that talked bad about the Nazi Regime. They said things like “we will not be silent”, “ We are your bad conscience”, The White Rose will not leave your peace”,There goal was “ a renewal from within of the severely wounded German spirit”, the reason to do this was because they knew they couldn’t defeat the Nazi’s without military force, they just had to convince people in Germany that the Nazi’s were bad. This falls under the sacred values and conformity because the White Rose’s sacred values were to help people and they did not want to conform to what everyone else was doing and they knew that what the Nazi’s were doing were …show more content…
In class we discussed Kristallnacht and the events that led to these actions. This was the first event in Germany where they physically and violently hurt and arrested many Jewish people. The reason this goes into conformity because it was not even the Nazi’s who commited these crimes it was the ordinary German citizens. This shows that conformity drives our choices of universe of obligation because the citizens were told to do this actions through the Nazi’s and Propaganda since they thought these actions would benefit Germany they all conformed and attacked the Jewish people. It shows how the ordinary citizens are to be blamed for their actions, and conformity promoted their decisions to do these things and impacted their universe of