Power and Leadership
The past week I have done some research on Osama bin laden and it’s interesting how the Documentary, talks about Bin Laden. For example the USA represents Osama as a killer, he obviously is a bad person but they also should show his strong sites, for example his leader ship and his power. Osama obviously was a great leader because he was able to get many follo
wers. It’s interesting how a bad person like him can get so many followers. When I start thinking about that, some questions come to mind, why would people follow him? Why would people agree with killing other people? When I think about Osama Bin Laden I also think about Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was also a great leader but he also misused his power for the evil. Adolf Hitler’s power in speech made it possible for him to get many followers. He was a great speaker and this gave him the power to “manipulate” people and make people support him and this is why it’s very easy to compare these two great leaders. They obviously both used it for the evil but they were still good at what they were doing. What you also have to think about is, that they might think that its right to do what they were doing. Everyone has a different perspective on things….Maybe one day we will understand why they chose to do the things they did.
Mert, I’m not sure we will ever understand what drives some people to do things we find so wrong. I think that’s why people use the word “evil” as it helps to explain it. I find that over-simplifying and don’t actually believe that a person is “evil”. You are right to comment that everyone has a different perspective, and there must have been enough people who thought they were doing to the right thing in order for these leaders to weild the power that they did. We might not agree, but they obviously believed that taking another person’s life was OK if that person is seen as a threat – and isn’t that still happening?