"System Examples"

No one at countrywide did anything to help this man not because of the language barrier but because the system (countrywide) are selfish. Countrywide is blaming this on language but they could have easily found a Chinese speaker to translate. Countrywide had the authority like most systems to provide guidance required to make the system function. There was a mutual benefit which only exsists to provide something for it's participants, so being part of a system means you will give something up for somebody else. But because countywide is selfish they didn't try to contact the man. Instead they were taking him money. Countrywide didn't care about the man because if they re scamming a person for money why would they help him. If it benifits the system (countrywide) why should they think about others and their lives. We have different morals whether we are in the system or not because when you are in the system you seem to put other people below you because you contol everything, but when you are outside the system you really see what goes on without being sucked in to the evil.

The students who participated as the guards started off mildly nice. They knew this was an experiment, but didn't take things to the extreame. After about a week the students who were guards started to feel like they had the authority to do things that they weren't doing before. They thought authority provided the guidance required to make the system function. By telling the prisioners that they were terrible people, and making them feel below them they thought they had the full authority to do so. All the guards thought was that it was part of their job. The prisioners would didn't have time to tell authority what was going on because it was all part of the system.

Rachel Barge is a student at Cal who is an avid contributor to various environmental initiatives. She realized that one factor preventing Cal from becoming more sustainable was a lack of funding for necessary projects. To overcome this challenge, Rachel co-created The Green Initiative Fund, a student fee referendum passed by the students at Berkeley. This fund successfully secures more than $2 million over ten years - $200,000 annually - for sustainability projects on campus, including clean energy, sustainable transportation, improved energy efficiency, water conservation, “green” internships, and improved recycling and composting programs. She also created The Sustainability Team (Steam), a student internship program dedicated to creating, implementing and leading a variety of projects aimed at establishing sustainable practices. The Sustainability Team implemented the first recycling program in student union buildings and founded the first organic, local, student-run cooperative produce stand on campus.
Rachel is capable of standing outside the prevaling system of self-interest and ignorance and doing something for the common good because she is not ignorant herself. She knows what she is doing and knows she is responsible for what she does. Rachel is thinking about the future and what can help for future generations. Unlike other people that are part of a system, she does not feel pressure to do anything she doesn't want to do. Rachel isn't doing this for mutual benefit. She is not only benefiting herself, but she is making our lives better and healthier without giving up anything.