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Hui, Nicole. “What Is The ‘Bird Box Challenge’ And Why Netflix Issued A Warning Telling Canadians Not To Try It.” Narcity, Narcity, www.narcity.com/entertainment/what-is-the-bird-box-challenge-and-why-netflix-issued-a-warning-telling-canadians-not-to-try-it.

Strasser, Todd. The Wave. Ember, 2013.

Wiesel, Elie, and Marion Wiesel. Night. Hill and Wang, a Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

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Night, The Wave, and The Bird Box Challenge all have one thing in common. They all have at least one thing they follow which leads to harm or death. In Night The Nazis are following the leader Adolf Hitler and doing their every command without a word. They are going and killing Jews, and torturing the ones they seemed fit for work. In The Wave they are blindly following a leader of the Wave, and the group acts just like the Nazis. the pushed and hurt people who weren't for it. For the Bird Box Challenge people think because they saw it in a movie they have to be good. They literally blindly follow their leader, and they have been hospitalized, hurt, and maybe even died, because they had to do a dumb challenge. You need to be a leader and follow others to the right choice. "In a world of followers, dare to be a leader."

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This aplies to the claim because Elie talks about how Jews followed each other to death and how the Jews all had to obey orders and follow their new leader.

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2015: Elie Wiesel on surviving Auschwitz | CNN

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Nazi death camp survivor and Nobel Peace laureate Elie Wiesel talks to Christiane Amanpour about surviving Auschwitz and the lessons we should remember.

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The applies to the claim by showing you how the people are following the movie and how they are hurting themselves.

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SAN BRUNO (CBS SF / AP) - San Bruno-based video giant YouTube is trying to prevent otherwise bright people from doing dangerous things.

The video-sharing network owned by Google is cracking down on harmful or dangerous pranks.

Updated policies no longer allow challenges that present "an apparent risk of death" and ban content featuring children "participating in dangerous challenges that pose an imminent risk of injury or bodily harm."

YouTube also says it is drawing the line on content that "intends to incite violence or encourage dangerous or illegal activities" that have a risk of serious harm or death. They include bomb making or pranks that put people in physical danger.

A recent "Bird Box challenge" stemming from the hit movie distributed by Los Gatos-based Netflix featured videos of people engaging in activities while blindfolded.

People also were sickened in a challenge that involved eating Tide detergent pods.
© Copyright 2019 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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YouTube Bans Dangerous Prank Videos Following 'Bird Box Challenge'

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SAN BRUNO (CBS SF / AP) - San Bruno-based video giant YouTube is trying to prevent otherwise bright people from doing dangerous things. The video-sharing network owned by Google is cracking down on harmful or dangerous pranks.

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This applies to the claim by showing the picture that they are referencing while they drive a car blind.

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This applies to the claim by using a blindfold like the movie to do everyday things.

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Netflix is trying to say that the challenge has hospitalized people and hurt many others, and that if people continue doing that they could get seriously injured or could die.

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Can’t believe I have to say this, but: PLEASE DO NOT HURT YOURSELVES WITH THIS BIRD BOX CHALLENGE.

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People watched the movie The Bird Box, and in the movie they have to wear blindfolds at all times. People took this idea and put it to driving. People started driving on roads blind, and doing all other kinds of dangerous stuff.

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this applies to the claim because it tells why following other people bad, and like or be someones friend if you like them and if they do something good.

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"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
William Hazlitt (English Philosopher & Writer) "Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect."
Stephen Leacock (Canadian Author & Scientist) "Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent." William Shakespeare (English Poet & Playwright)
I had a friend for years who was a horrible influence on me.

First, he made me feel great about myself.
(I know - what a jerk.)
Second, he was a convincing leader.

He also watched out for me.

(Yep, this guy was rotten to the core.)

At first, he was a great friend.

My gut told me I could trust him, and so I did.
I followed him blindly.
And it was a lot of fun.

At first.

He was strong, charismatic, and a great communicator.

Being around him made me feel strong, charismatic, and like a great communicator.

Over time though, I started to notice that he only made me feel great about myself when I was doing what he wanted me to do.

I also noticed that he was more of a manipulative leader.

I slowly realized that he "watched out for me" by warning me to not chase my real goals because they were too risky.
But by the time I realized all of this, it was too late.
I had already become someone I didn't want to be.

I had wasted years trying to be liked and trying to be someone else.

All because someone made me feel good enough to follow them blindly.

Why You Should Never Blindly Follow Others

Behavioural science has long established trust as an essential foundation for any interpersonal relationship.

Friendships and trust are evolutionary across species, and no relationship can exist without them.

Not trusting anyone isn't the answer: that's illogical and rigidly stupid.
But blindly trusting others and following them unconditionally is just as stupid.
We have romanticized the idea of unconditional love and acceptance to a level where we are making poor choices that are negatively impacting our lives.

What we're forgetting is what social science has already picked up on: we blur the lines between familiarity and trust.

A paper out of the University of Oxford suggests that familiarity is often mistaken for trust, but where it actually differs is that it holds no risk.
Trusting what is familiar without scrutiny is always a mistake.
Look - trust involves risk.

As a result, trust is almost always uncomfortable.

In response to this discomfort, we look for someone else to respond in our best interests and to reduce that risk.

If the other person's interests are consistently aligned with ours, trust builds.
But if their interests and our interests diverge too much, trust is broken.
Dr. John Gottman, author of The Science of Trust states that trust is not just the #1 desired quality cited in relationships, but is a key factor in making communities, states, and countries work.

His metric found that high trust scores led to positive outcomes and increased relationship stability.

Roderick Kramer wrote in Trust in Organizations that risk is weighed against the level that we trust others with the addition of an ongoing assessment of personal gain and self-interest.
What does all of this mean?
It means your goal is to protect healthy self-interest while exercising wisdom and discernment with others.

Trust, but don't trust unconditionally.

Learn from others, but never blindly follow them.

How To Stop Trusting And Following Others Blindly

Everyone wants to have friends.

Everyone wants to be well-liked.

There's nothing wrong with this.

But some people want to be liked by everyone.
Some people want to be liked unconditionally.
These people think the world owes them friendship, unconditional love, and a free pass to do whatever they want.

They're desperate for attention and affection.

It makes them feel good about themselves - powerful, even.
They feel entitled to mass approval without conditions.
They feel they deserve trust without proof.

Don't be one of these people.

Don't be fooled into thinking that other people owe you friendship.
Nobody owes you anything.
And you definitely don't owe anyone else.

Your goal should be to cultivate relationships where trust is built and strengthened over time, not to feel obligated and make others feel obligated.

The problem is that some people will demand the world from you without giving anything back.

They will ask for unconditional support, loyalty, and trust without reciprocating it.

These people are not leaders; they are manipulators.

Very often, they are greedy and entitled.

Don't be one of these people and don't be dumb enough to blindly follow one of these people either.

Here are 3 steps that will help you to never be too trusting and follow other people blindly...

1. Reject popularity.

Reject the idea of popularity altogether.

It makes you diluted.
Popularity is nothing more than the lowest common denominator of everyone around you.
The more friends you have, the more fake friends you have.

Wake up - not everyone is going to like you.

Being well-liked is not a measure of success.

Having a lot of "friends" isn't either.

In fact, if you're living well, most people won't like you.

The more successful you become, the more you let your happiness show, the more enemies you will create.
People will be jealous.
Some might turn on you.

Some people only want to be your friend when you're struggling.

As soon as you start to put your life together and reach your goals, these same people will stop supporting you and might reject you altogether.

Their friendship is conditional: they keep you feeling low so they can feel superior, more powerful, and needed.

These people are toxic and if you keep them around they will endlessly repeat this cycle.

They will abuse the trust you once offered them in all your short-sighted foolishness.
Too many people in your life, in general, will distract you from your focus.
Trying to be popular and fit in will just create noise in your life.

This noise will make it hard to tell who's really your friend and who isn't: who is actually trustworthy and who isn't.

It's impossible to weigh loyalty in a crowd.

The liars and thieves will blend in with the honorable and you won't know who to trust.

So you'll end up blindly following anyone and everyone.

You'll chase quantity over quality, and you'll chase it right over a cliff.
Take a step back and start separating wheat from chaff.
Be analytical as you sift through the masses you've accumulated while you weren't paying attention.

Remove yourself from the chaos and start being strategic.

Get over the idea that popularity means value.

2. Reject complacency.

Don't let others convince you that everyone should like you.

Don't let crooked and confused hippies, gurus, and mindfulness hucksters convince you that you are worthy of everyone's love and attention.

More importantly, don't let them convince you that you should shower everyone else with love and attention, no matter who they are or what they do.
Judgement matters.
Wisdom and discernment matters.

Yes, there are some people in your life who you should trust and learn from.

But there are many others who you should stop trusting and stop blindly following.

If others try to convince you that they deserve your loyalty, friendship, and favor despite their negativity, laziness, and bad behavior - run.
These people are looking for a free ride, where your loyalty is guaranteed no matter what they do.
They are looking to take advantage of your complacency in life.

They're betting on you taking the easy way out in life and refusing to engage in conflict.

They're leveraging your own desire to keep the peace and get along with everyone to take advantage of you.

Complacency can be toxic.

Comfort can be a weakness.

When someone wants you to follow them unconditionally, what they're really asking you to do is to turn a blind eye to their manipulative actions.
They're asking you to turn off your brain and play dumb.
They're asking you to be complacent and comfortable, avoiding conflict and hurt feelings.

Anyone who wants you to follow them blindly is bad for you.

You can be warm and caring in life, but you can't blindly welcome the entire world into your living room with open arms.
You will have to turn some people away.
You will have to support some people from a distance.

Reject people that are manipulative, negative, dramatic, reactive, unhealthy, unbalanced, unconscionable, whiners and victims...

Bad behavior needs to be rejected - right away.

Otherwise, you become a crutch and accomplice, supporting and empowering their negative behavior.

3. Reject the "unconditional".

The truth is, everything is conditional.

And if you give unconditional favors to everyone in your life, you're setting yourself up for a major downfall.

You have to be smarter than this.
People should exist in your life in tiers.
Not classist layers of judgmental freakishness and hard rejections.

But rather, layers of earned loyalty and trust, established through consistent actions over time.

You can't trust everyone with the same level of trust you give your parents, or best friend, or kids, the second you meet them.

You can't follow anyone who tells you they have a good idea.

Deep trust is earned.
Leadership is earned.
Start paying more attention to other people's behavior.

Don't judge and value what they say.

Instead, learn to measure their actions.

Actions speak louder than words.

Consistent actions will show you the workings of other people's souls.

Use actions as a guide for who you should trust and who you should follow.
Start being a smart judge of character.
Without judgment, your life would be a disaster.

Without judgment, the world would turn into a cesspool.

Judge people appropriately and never give people - especially manipulative people - a free pass, just because they ask you to.

Every relationship requires effort. Stop following others blindly when they've never given you a reason to follow them.

Set intelligent conditions for your life and be selective with the people you allow close to you. Weed out false friends and people that don't earn your trust or consistently break it. Set a high standard in your life for anyone close to you. Protect your focus and success by rejecting popularity and being a wise judge of character so that you're surrounded by positive influence and people that you trust. Don't give people a free pass of unconditional trust and loyalty by becoming complacent and accepting bad behavior that will distract you from your purpose and hold you back from success. Accept that rejection is a part of life and be okay with cutting negative people out.
To learn more about how to stop being too trusting and blindly following other people, and to get instant access to exclusive training videos, case studies, insider documents, and my private online network, get on the Escape Plan wait list.

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"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! William Hazlitt (English Philosopher & Writer) "Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect."

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This applies to the claim because it shows how the people following are trying to get more people to follow using posters or signs.

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This applies to the claim because it shows how the people following are trying to get more people to follow using posters or signs.

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Showing how they are following someone do a salute to the Wave and everyone else is doing it.

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Showing how they are following someone do a salute to the Wave and everyone else is doing it.

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This means that they will try and play it off as nothing ever happened. They learned that following something that you have no idea is, or who is leading it you probably should not do that thing. The Wave was was nicer Nazi propganda.

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“If history repeats itself, you will all want to deny what happened to you in The Wave. But if our experiment has been successful-and I think that you can see that it has-you will have learned that we are all responsible for our own actions, and that you must always question what you do rather than blindly follow a leader” (6). Grey

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Ben Ross does an experiment which was basically him trying to make everyone into sorta little Nazis but didn't tell them their leader. After one final rally Ben Ross showed them that The Wave leader was Adolf Hitler himself, and all the kids got upset and left disbanding the Wave.

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This applies to the claim because it show where the Jews had to follow one another to get their their barracks, and or where the S.S. told them to go.

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this applies to the claim because it shows how every Jew followed one another in the camps and live in the same conditions. They follow what the S.S. tells them to do.

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It means that he was shocked by the words spoken by the S.S. officer because they have told them that they are staying together. He knew that he won't get a chance to see his mother again

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"'Men to the left! Women to the right!'
Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion." (Pg. 27)

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In Night Elie Wiesel and his family are forced into Ghettos of the Germans arrive in his town. He is sent of to Auschwitz, where he and his father are separated from the girls i his family, and his mom and little sister die of selection. After over a year of work and cold his father passes of dysentery. Four months later they rebel and take over the camp then the first American tank arrives. The only thing they wanted was food.

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"In a world of followers, dare to be a leader."