Narayanjot Kaur Ji and Mai Harinder ji,
NJ:
Well first tell me how one video can present "compelling" evidence of anything. Compelling evidence in the social sciences depends on the replication of many controlled studies.
Cmon Naraynjot Kaur ji, he presents those studies that were done! He talks about the studies done by Stanley Milgram at 9:46. Then later talks about his own "Prison Study" at 13:15.
Then in brief -- throughout Sikh history there are stories of martyrs who defied social variables, pressures to act in certain ways, influences and rewards that shape responses to moral problems, and conventions that could have directed them to make different choices in their lives. What were the conditions of social determinism that led them to choose martyrdom? Why does anyone choose martyrdom?
Go over his premise again, it's at 7:20.
He says people are the "Actors on the stage" but
that's not the only factor that determines what they do. You must also look "at the stage, the director, etc..." He says "social scientists stop there." They fail to consider the
system (political, econimic and cultural background).
So the answer to your question = the "system" laid down by the Gurus and "perfected" by Guru Gobind Singh ji, through the Khalsa.
MH:
So if I am to buy this whole premise, the members of that mob that came and murdered my family in Delhi in 1984 must be excused because they were part of a a mob and under social pressure to murder men with long hair and beards.
So you think they were evil people, and were not transformed by the situation and system?
I am sorry about what happened to you and your family but the people you who did that to you were people just like you...
That is such a ridiculously stupid premise that I wonder why I am bothering to even write about it.
You are writing about it because of the situation, and because of the dispositional effect it had on you. You also find it rdiculous for the same reasons. It's not ridiculous, I advise you to review his premise at 7:20, it seemed from the last bit of your response that you did not quite understand it.
Shall we start with Bhagat Singh during the independence struggle in the Raj?
Bhagat Singh was heroic for the reasons and evidence presented in the video. I dont think any of you have watched the video without the usual "filters".
BTW his premise is not "social pressure".