Essential Question

Question: How does the need to belong and be accepted by others cloud our judgment and keep people from making good choices?

Statement: The need to belong and excepted clouds our judgment and keeps us from making good choices.

Answer: People want to be accepted by others and belong to a group, because they don't want to be alone during events that they need friends and people to back them up, or comfort them. I think the reason the need to be accepted clouds our judgment is because we get caught up and overwhelmed, always thinking about what to do and what not to do. And if we do have time to think things through, it may not always be the right decision, because part of our decisions are ruled by our peers, and what everyone else would think. One example of the need to belong and excepted clouding our judgment and keeping us from making good choices from the Wave, is when the anonymous writer said that their friends were unsure of joining the Wave, and when the senior said that everyone was doing it, their friends changed their minds and joined the Wave, I thought that that was a strait-out example. The friends of the anonymous writer were pressures into joining the Wave, because they wanted to belong and fit in, so that might have blocked their judgment. Also, the students wanted to be like the seniors, who were superior, so that might have been a reason why they joined. So in all, I agree with the statement that the need to belong and excepted clouds our judgment and keeps us from making good choices.