How is fear often used to control people and keep them submissive? Provide examples from historical or current events.
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Eliza
10/22/2019 01:13:00 pm
I think that people are controlled by fear very often. This fear can be fear of something, someone, or yourself. Sometimes you can surprise yourself or if your self confidence is low then you can surprise yourself. It has happened quite a bit in history but I can’t think of one spasific one.
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Lizzie
10/22/2019 01:19:57 pm
This is a really great point.
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Jonah
10/22/2019 01:13:36 pm
As a defense mechanism, fear was designed to improve our chances of survival. This was vital when we were hunting in the wild, yet in today’s complex and rapidly evolving landscape, fear often makes us vulnerable to manipulation. Fear is used to control people in politics. It can mislead us. Just pick a reason to panic, and politicians jump on it. Whether it be terrorism, etc.
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Dakota James
10/22/2019 01:16:14 pm
Yes I agree that when people see an opportunity to scare others and jump ahead they take advantage of it.
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Hailey
10/22/2019 01:17:28 pm
I agree that fear is very manipulative.
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Ady
10/22/2019 01:20:30 pm
Yeah
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Keely
10/22/2019 01:25:47 pm
That was very profound. Nice job.
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Sienna
10/22/2019 01:13:45 pm
Fear is often used for tactics in politics and everyday life. Such as in ww2 books were burned and people were threatened to be killed if they didn’t join the nazis.
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Dakota James
10/22/2019 01:15:00 pm
That’s sad and disappointing.
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Jonah
10/22/2019 01:16:03 pm
True. I just read a book about that.
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Olivia
10/22/2019 01:17:33 pm
Germans unite.
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Sienna
10/22/2019 01:21:44 pm
Ja. Du comes aust Deutschland?
Dakota James
10/22/2019 01:14:08 pm
Fear is put into people by others to make them feel unsafe and be controllable. The KKK did this to intimidate blacks to not vote back in history. We shouldn’t give into fear, don’t be afraid to be yourself.
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Nathan
10/22/2019 01:17:11 pm
Ya I agree
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Micah
10/22/2019 01:20:19 pm
That’s true. I like this. Especially not being afraid to be yourself
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Carson
10/22/2019 01:14:21 pm
Fear is used to control the population. An example would be a sign on someone’s property that maybe said don’t trespass or ill shoot you. 9/10 time they won’t shoot you but if does make you fear about getting shot so you don’t risk it.
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Jonah
10/22/2019 01:15:28 pm
Good real life comparison.
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Nathan
10/22/2019 01:17:59 pm
Ya no one wants to get shot
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Trishelle
10/23/2019 01:13:07 pm
Your right
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Nathan
10/22/2019 01:15:41 pm
Fear is very powerful and if you keep them in fear of the leader or at least in fear of the consequences of breaking the rules. People will listen to what ever you say because doing what they want is better than the consequences.
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Hailey
10/22/2019 01:18:22 pm
I agree that, in some situations, leaders can be very feared.
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I agree.
10/22/2019 01:19:35 pm
I agree with that.
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Tyler Hilton
10/22/2019 01:15:45 pm
One example that I though of was torture. Way back when they used torture to get information out of people, and the reason they always gave it to them was their fear that they might get further tortured.
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Olivia
10/22/2019 01:16:28 pm
We had similar ideas, I agree.
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Myah
10/22/2019 01:21:15 pm
That that was a popular way of manipulation.
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Olivia
10/22/2019 01:15:52 pm
Fear creates an urgency to obey the person who has control over you. An example is the Nazis over the Germans. The Germans listened to the Nazis because the Nazis forced them to with the fear of death and torture.
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Micah
10/22/2019 01:16:09 pm
You avoid your fears. It’s not like you’re going to walk up to a snake and stand on it. Fear is used as a self defense to keep us away from danger. An example in our society is when people who are afraid of offending someone choose to avoid it by not saying anything at all.
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Madeline
10/22/2019 01:23:50 pm
I agree
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Hailey
10/22/2019 01:16:51 pm
Fear has controlled people in countless scenarios throughout history. For example, African Americans, even after the abolition of slavery, had fear instilled in them daily by whites. Their right to vote was even put in jeopardy due to fear. On a more relatable scale, often times we as humans are afraid to simply be ourselves, or to stand up for what we believe in due to the fear of rejection and judgment. Fear is extremely suppressing, and is a state of being that is not easily overcome.
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Janessa
10/22/2019 01:30:54 pm
We don’t like to stand out.
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Boaz
10/22/2019 01:33:43 pm
I do think that we often have the fear in ourselves perhaps even more often then it is used intentionally against us
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Trishelle
10/23/2019 01:12:47 pm
Yes, that’s good.
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Myah
10/22/2019 01:17:49 pm
Fear is used against people because when someone is scared about something, they’re less likely to do that thing. An example of this is early American civil rights. If someone “colored” used the wrong waterfountin they’d be used as a public example and thrown in jail. This would make the others not want to disobey the law and this would keep them in “their place”.
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Cade
10/22/2019 01:21:55 pm
I like how you stated that.
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Megan
10/22/2019 01:18:27 pm
Fear controls people in so many ways such as if you want to pick up a new hobby but fear can talk you out of it.
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Lizzie
10/22/2019 01:20:25 pm
I agree with this answer.
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Tyler
10/22/2019 01:20:48 pm
I feel the same way, so many people have the fear that they won’t be good enough in sports or other events that they limit themselves to their true capabilities. We shouldn’t do thus we should always push ourselves to the limit.
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Madeline
10/22/2019 01:18:35 pm
Fear can be used to keep people submissive because it can make people more timid and make them feel helpless. Fear can also be used to make people think that something will harm them so that they don’t do something or go somewhere.
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Cade
10/22/2019 01:23:13 pm
I agree that fear can make people timid.
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Kendra
10/22/2019 01:18:41 pm
I think a lot of people ar controlled by fear. An experience I thought of was taking hostages in war. They scared them into telling them information to destroy their enemy.
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Beth
10/22/2019 01:30:26 pm
That is a good example!
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Janessa
10/22/2019 01:37:16 pm
Yeah, no one wants to get hurt. It’d take a super strong will to not break and spill information.
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Erik
10/22/2019 01:18:47 pm
Fear can make people think that something worse is the solution to something bad. It can also control people because they are afraid of a punishment. One example in history is when the Germans thought it was a good idea to give Hitler more power because they thought he was going to make them the most powerful race and country in the world.
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Tyler
10/22/2019 01:21:38 pm
That’s a good example
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Beth
10/22/2019 01:29:52 pm
That is a good example.
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Ady
10/22/2019 01:19:20 pm
American uses lots of different ways to keep people afraid and submissive for example, jail time for example, or money fines and even executions. Religion has been a big item in the past such as the Jews.
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Keely
10/22/2019 01:28:07 pm
I didn’t think about the religion aspect of it.
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Lizzie
10/22/2019 01:19:29 pm
People often have fear used against them to keep them from doing things other people don’t want them to do. Such as the Nazis who kept people afraid so they wouldn’t rise up.
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Kendra
10/22/2019 01:20:44 pm
That is a very good point.
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Cade
10/22/2019 01:20:04 pm
Fear is used when something someone loves is threatened, whether by a person or an outside force. This threat causes the person to do things they don’t want to do. One example is early slavery when slaves families and themselves were threatened to be whipped.
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Myah
10/22/2019 01:24:46 pm
The American slaves were very repressed.
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Madeline
10/22/2019 01:26:49 pm
That’s a good example.
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Keely
10/22/2019 01:24:37 pm
Fear is used to keep people submissive because humans fear the unknown. Most threats consist of the saying, “keep quiet or else...”.
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Boaz
10/22/2019 01:28:48 pm
It isn’t interesting how you connected fear and ignorance. I didn’t think of that but I like it a lot.
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Boaz
10/22/2019 01:34:58 pm
It is interesting sorry. I blame auto correct
Boaz
10/22/2019 01:26:11 pm
Fear being used to submit people is not very effective. It is very easy and does not require very much attention but it inspires revolt. Examples from history aren’t very prominent because most of them do not last long at all, I personally cannot think of one.
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Eliza
10/22/2019 01:33:23 pm
That’s a really good example
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Beth
10/22/2019 01:28:55 pm
When we are afraid of something or someone, we don’t want to have that fear upon us and threatening us. We live protected and cautiously when we fear. I think that one example nowadays is living in the status quo.
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Eliza
10/22/2019 01:33:36 pm
You are smart.
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Janessa
10/22/2019 01:30:07 pm
People don’t want to get hurt, physically or emotionally. If they go against what is seen as socially acceptable, they can be outcast and looked down upon. One event in history like this is segregation. I’m sure a lot of people didn’t like what was happening, but they didn’t speak up beacuase of fear.
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10/22/2019 01:37:04 pm
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Trishelle
10/23/2019 01:12:06 pm
I feel that fear does control our life because we hesitate and make choices based ok our fears.
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