PART A: Which statement identifies the central idea of the text?

A

Behaving in a truly altruistic manner is an important part of being human; the reasons why people do it are less important.

B

Psychologists are unable to agree if true altruism exists, but they believe several factors could be encouraging people to act in seemingly selfless ways.

C

Psychologists have determined that true altruism doesn’t exist because humans are compelled to always put themselves first.

D

Behaviors should be discussed in terms of their prosocial nature because psychologists still don’t fully understand the nature of altruism.

(from common lit)

B.

Half of the article is dedicated on determining if “true altruism” exist which inevitably rebounds back to the idea that there are more then one factor at play for someone to act selflessly.

to kill a mockingbird basically is about a lawyer who goes against everything in a racist society like at the time of this novel, to defend a black man accused of sexual abuse. in the bible there are cases like that of joseph, who was accused by the woman of potifar, for a crime similar to that of tim robbinson, of that novel (genesis 39: 1-20). at this point we see that god also provides the escape to joseph, who was accused unjustly, but in his time, and through his attitude, his faith was not shaken, and god provided the solution. the perspective of god also written in the bible and not pay evil with evil. (ephesians 4: 32, 1 thessalonians 5: 15, 1 peter 3: 9). atticus, the lawyer, demonstrated during this lee novel, empathy, love of neighbor, understood the situation of this accused man. he went against everything in that society, and stood in favor of that man, for the injustice committed. this shows the empathy, the love taught by christ, in some passages that speak of love and justice in the sermon of the beatitudes (especially verses 6 and 7 of matthew 5).