Dr. martin luther king. jr. claims in "letter from birmingham jail" that "it is a historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture, but groups tend to be more immoral than individuals." write an essay defending, challenging, or qualifying king's claim.

Answer and Explanation:

** I will provide with the beginning of an essay agreeing with Dr. King's opinion. Feel free to change anything.

To better understand how we function as individuals and in groups, all we need to do is pay attention to ourselves and our own behavior. Have you ever been so influenced by your companions that you found in yourself the courage to do something you would never do if you were alone? I believe I can safely say most of us has had an experience like that. There is the nice kid who ends bullying another nice kid simply because his friends are doing so. There is the employee who witnesses something wrong but keeps quiet about it because others tell him that's the way things have always been.

When coordinating our values with the ones of a certain group (family, friends, co-workers etc.), we are bound to have conflicts. Unfortunately, the group opinion tends to prevail as we feel intimidated by the idea of being the different ones. Being different is scary; we know what happens to those who are different. They are bullied. They are not invited to parties. They don't date. They are depressed. Those terrible facts prevent us from realizing, or at least admitting, that the group is not always right. It is not always fair.

Carl Gustav Jung, in his book "The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious" talks of the trickster, an inferior aspect of personality that belongs in the collective unconscious, being a part of all of us. The trickster, as the name suggests, has no moral, no understanding of consequences. Jung claims that we tend to awaken the trickster when in groups. It's as if we forget who we are, our sense of being an individual, and dive into this primitive, animalistic side of ourselves. It is the trickster that allows a law-abiding citizen, for instance, to feel free to beat the other team's fan in a soccer stadium. He only does it because he is influenced by the group and what the group feels. And, at that moment, the groups felt rage towards the other group.

When Dr. King claims in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" that "It is a historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture, but groups tend to be more immoral than individuals," he is basically stating the same principle above. People in groups feel powerful. They feel supported, safe in knowing there are others who share the same feelings. Even if they don't share the group's feelings, they feel secure and embraced by the idea of belonging. It's only instinctive, since not belonging to a group very much meant dying out in the forest in ancient times.

**You can develop your own conclusion from here. :)

may i see the historical information and the excerpt?

i do not the question is put in the corrorect order