What Is Moral Courage?
Explication,and Classification of a complex Construct
Consider the following two instances of prosocial behavior. The first took place in Munich.Germany,January 13,2001: About 20 NaZi skinheads harassed a young Greek and started to beat him up in most brutal way. Five young Turk witnessed the situation and decided to intervene. Risking their own lives, they were able to save the disabled and blood stained victim from being beaten to death. The second instance occurred in Asia:After the big tsunami wave in Southeast Asia in December 2004,more than 165,000 people lost their lives and more than one million people were homeless by the floods. Shocked by this horrible natural disaster,people all over the world wanted to ease the victims' suffering Thousands of volunteers went to Southeast Asia to the ground and in Germany,for example,more than 250 million Euros were collected in private donations to help the tsunami victims.
The young Turks and the tsunami volunteers and doners both acted prosocislly and supported people who were in situation of severe distress.However, in the situation,the young Turks had to reckon with massive negative social consequences such as being assaulted by the Nazi skinheads or at least being harassed by thern. In contrast,the tsunami volunteers and donors could anticipate positive social consequences such as gratefulness from the victims and recognition from other volunteers,other donors, and the public. Thus,even if both types of actions are done in pursuit of actions are done in pursuit of the same goal,namely,helping persons in need.the consequences for the help might be very different. We argue that the first kind of prosocial behavior is typical instance of moral courage, whereas the second is more typical of helping behavior
What Is Moral Courage?Explication,and Classification of a complex ConstructConsider the following two instances of prosocial behavior. The first took place in Munich.Germany,January 13,2001: About 20 NaZi skinheads harassed a young Greek and started to beat him up in most brutal way. Five young Turk witnessed the situation and decided to intervene. Risking their own lives, they were able to save the disabled and blood stained victim from being beaten to death. The second instance occurred in Asia:After the big tsunami wave in Southeast Asia in December 2004,more than 165,000 people lost their lives and more than one million people were homeless by the floods. Shocked by this horrible natural disaster,people all over the world wanted to ease the victims' suffering Thousands of volunteers went to Southeast Asia to the ground and in Germany,for example,more than 250 million Euros were collected in private donations to help the tsunami victims.The young Turks and the tsunami volunteers and doners both acted prosocislly and supported people who were in situation of severe distress.However, in the situation,the young Turks had to reckon with massive negative social consequences such as being assaulted by the Nazi skinheads or at least being harassed by thern. In contrast,the tsunami volunteers and donors could anticipate positive social consequences such as gratefulness from the victims and recognition from other volunteers,other donors, and the public. Thus,even if both types of actions are done in pursuit of actions are done in pursuit of the same goal,namely,helping persons in need.the consequences for the help might be very different. We argue that the first kind of prosocial behavior is typical instance of moral courage, whereas the second is more typical of helping behavior
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