... they're acting patriotic. On the other hand, it also creates a selfish community. This is because what is required to create selfless patriotism is an attachment, or love for country that is so intense, that it is difficult to see its' community as being unjust. Citizens can have willful self-delusion that their state is doing good things. ... ...
... cause just as much, if not more damage. It is difficult to understand why some chose to live in fear of the person they love and stay in abusive relationships and/or marriages. Whether it be for love, finances, religious beliefs, low self-esteem, fear, shame or isolation; these emotions have led the abuse victim to making a poor choice to stay in ... behaviors. This instinct is a motivator behind altruism. Altruism is the behavior of a person that benefits another at thier own expense. An abuse victim might believe that they are sacrificing for a selfless act and maybe that fact just ma...
... of perfection in the fact that he considers ugliness a weakness. If that were true, ugliness would be the monster's only weakness, as the story goes on to tell of the selfless acts of kindness the creature administers. Victor describes his supposed miserable failure as a deformed monster when he says "His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath ... , and end the creature's miserable asylum due to the simple belief that beasts cannot nor should live peacefully in the comfort of love and kinship. The cottagers also display a contrast of truth and appearance. T...
... for the allied powers. Despite being on the side of the Nazi's Heisenberg is never portrayed as a Nazi sympathizer but rather a victim of the regime. He was tormented by his love of Germany and his understanding of Hitler; he knew that a man like Hitler should never be given an atomic bomb, but he did not want to see his homeland reduced ... attempting to do something to help other people makes them moral creatures. That's not however, to say that all men and women of science are moral beings who are completely selfless. Yet, it is hard to deny that the overall premise of science is a m...
