Social Identity and Moral Responsibility

            I believe the surroundings people lives in, in our societies can shape our lives. People that live around and up can to. Some people are brought up in bad neighborhoods and therefore some tend to do bad things they regularly wouldn't do if they lived in a good neighborhood.  The people who live in better areas may do and think better than those that grew up in bad areas as well. They may do things that change the way people live their lives and how they will act in society. What defines us by our society is how we go about living our life in the surroundings we were brought up in. People don’t think so, but we are actually given chances in life every day, it’s like life gives us a new opportunity to do something different to change the way we were brought up that could give you a chance to change your life.

Something that the society I live in taught me is how to treat others with respect and how to never disrespect  the people you meet or know because one day you may need help and those you treat or treated bad will never help you. My mother always told me to be kind to those who don’t know what kind is and teach them how to be. You never know where that person came from or what they went through in their life to become the person they are today. Other than respect the society I live in also taught me how to act because when you see those around you, you tend to act different  learned firsthand in 6^th grade acting like others was no good and the price it came with was deadly. That day I took into consideration why people make certain decisions in their life and why some people act based on where they came from and the society they live in. My own choice resulted from my own choice of acting like others and I learned that being myself was better.

Our social identity does increase the responsibility for other people. Family and close friends were some examples that we went over in class and how we should feel responsible for them. How we grow up as a person can influence those around us as well as our community as a whole in either a good or bad way. Some feel that they’re obligated to be responsible for who raised them when they get older and that’s the way it should be based on how they brought you up as a child. It is our moral responsibility to help anybody who needs help family, friend or stranger.  It’s called paying it forward and It would be wrong to not help a person in need of help no matter how they were brought up or what area they live in. It is only moral to do so and to help others in need.