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Conflict and Peer Pressure
As long as you have two different people with two different viewpoints, ideas, or thinking patterns, there will be conflict.
There are four types of conflict:
Peer
Peer Pressure can be positive or negative. It is another amoral thing. It can be positive when you are pressured by your friends to study when you have a big test coming up, but it can also be negative if someone is pressuring you to do something against the law. Positive peer pressure is influence from peers to behave in a responsible way. Negative peer pressure is influence from peers to behave in a way that is not responsible.
10 Negative Peer Pressure Statements
The following are some "lines" you may have heard before.
• No one will ever know.
• What's the big deal? It won't kill you.
•I do it all the time!
•Everybody else is doing it.
•You only live once.