Allport argues that the healthy adult shows compassion for the considerable diffi culties in living faced by all human beings, and he is highly critical of the person who feels that “he and his kind...

Allport argues that the healthy adult shows compassion for the considerable diffi culties in living faced by all human beings, and he is highly critical of the person who feels that “he and his kind matter, no one else. His church, his family, and his nation make a safe unit, but all else is alien, dangerous, [and] to be excluded from his petty formula for survival.” Do you agree or disagree? Why?