A study conducted by Leeds University that discusses the human herd mentality. In this study, it can be seen that the population as a whole will follow individuals with a strong will and purpose (Rispo). If an individual is involved in a group that is led by, or has several members with strong opinions, it can change their own personal knowledge, perspective, emotions, and even reasoning toward the subject. These changes to the individual are primarily seen in Ethics. In Ethics, the shared knowledge is based off what the majority of society agrees is either acting in accordance with God’s wishes, or what should be imposed socially to minimize the conflict in society (Aroneo). In history, however, the shared knowledge are historical facts and some historical interpretations. It is through omission that textbooks are able to mislead students. While never wanting to speak ill of the dead, the herofication leads to false information, changing the scholars personal knowledge of the events (Lowen). The question comes up then to what extent do these areas of shared knowledge affect our personal knowledge? Tremendously, because of societal morals and the herd mentality. In ethics, a couple different people are considered the prominent philosophers on the subject, Nietzsche and Aristotle, who give a basis of what civilization should follow. Aristotle’s philosophy argues that society aims to achieve the highest good they can (Kemerling). With the aspect that people are aiming to be the most virtuous, though to do that they must determine the model or example. Every person has a different perspective on the idea of what is perfect and virtuous, and it is not until people come together and share their ideas with each other that the herd mentality comes into play. It only takes a few passionate people to make the rest of the population question their views on what should be ethical. The questioning is especially prominent when they have yet to decide what they think of as “the perfect being” or lacking solid facts about a situation. Showing how when put in a group and knowledge is shared, in a passionate form, that the perspective can change of the weaker willed individual. This happens constantly every day, with personal knowledge changing because the idea is that if a person is more confident then there is a wider acceptance of the idea. A very radical example of this is in World War two in Nazi Germany and the Death’s Head Unit. This unit was in charge of the concentration camps and consisted of 24,000 individuals. It is hard to believe everyone knew what was happening and that happened to be the murder of millions. Because of the very passionate Hitler, and a few extremists, the others were able to fall into place believing the genocide of jews was the right thing to do since it was as widely accepted by their peers (Kizaz). As a