A Big Fat Target
In making a decision, we occasionally find ourselves in conflict between our own desire and pressure to please a group. The narrator in George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” is faced with precisely this kind of situation. A young British police officer in early twentieth century colonial Burma feels forced to act irrationally. He must contend with an excited mob of over two thousand Burmese townspeople who wish him to shoot an escaped elephant, while taking into consideration the loss to the show elephant’s owner along with his own distaste for shooting the great beast, “ Somehow it always seems worse to kill a large animal,” he remarks. Although today we are often led to abandon reason and behave in an irrational manner as a result of pressure from a group, this rarely occurs in adulthood or to the extent described in “Shooting an Elephant.”
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