Question

the enemy? how will you respond?( how will you treat someone who hates you as a minority, and suddenly this person is shot and unconscious and need assistance. There is no one to give the assistance but those he hates. how will you respond to this?)

Answer 1

helping others is a psychological process which states that people assist others without any demand of rewards. there are many reasons why this happens.one of the reason is survivval. every species wants to survive as much as they can and hence they help each other in order to survive so that they can live longer and reproduce andthe species can survive longer. another reason which motivates a person to help from within is that they might think that if they help a person this time he will help them later. hence, expectation of being helped in the future is a reason why people help each other. an extension to this also states that if a person is helped in the pat he is likely to help the helper becaus ehe feels indebted aand wants to return the favour. another concept has been theorised by rthe reserchers which says that immediate emergency situations make a person emotionally aroused and this enables the person to extend help to others in order to relieve themselves from the emotional feelings. another basis of helping others is provided by empathy-altruism theory. empathy means that people keep themselves inthe other persons shoes and feel him and altruism is the process of helping others without expecting anything in return. hence, if someone needs help and the other person feels empathetic to them they are likely to help him and relieve him as empathetic nature generates emotions in a person and the main focus now becomes to relieve the other person from his situation. anotheer concept of helping is the norm of social responsibility. according to this people feel that a person has an belief that he has to act in a way that benefits the society. hence he helps people in some or the other way.

under normal conditions if a person is my enemy and needs help I would not be willing to do that but in the case mentioned above the person is surrounded by people who hate him and also the intensity of help needed is high because he has been shot. two major factors would lead me to help him in this situation. the first one is that i will expect him to behave nicely and help me when required in future. the second is that it is a high intensity emergency which will arouse me emotionally and to relieve myself from the emotional state i will have to help him. hence i am more likely to help him but in many cases when the hatrred is very strong and associated with any past experience of the person not helping you in severe conditions this help will not be provided as a negative memory will attach to it and a reciprocation to the past unhelpful behavior is likely to occur now.