Tragedy and the souls of people.

Thinking about the recent bombings in London, I heard a lot of stories about how ordinary citizens rose to the occasion...Londoners and tourists looked out for one another. The tragedy "brought out the best" in people. On the otherside of the coin we have stories about how the attacks also "brought out the worst" in people. For example, the London hotels that doubled or tripled rates hours after the terrorists struck, leaving people with no way to get home, stuck paying the higher rates.

I guess it goes both ways. I don't believe a tragedy like this brings out the best or the worst in people, it just allows people to become a heightened version of who and what they were before the crisis struck.