What is the source or cause of evil in human behavior? It is the way one was raised/taught. A person cannot do evil if he doesn’t know what evil is. Good people can do bad things, depending on the environment they are in. An outside force is the cause of evil. If a person is starving, he can still show empathy to another. Lord Of The Flies can prove Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs wrong. Tabula Rasa, the idea that everyone is born with a blank slate. That slate gets written on by the events and experiences one goes through in their life. The source or cause of evil is from where one was raised and the environment a person is in today. Zimbardo’s Lucifer Effect tested on how good people react in bad places. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs can be disproven.
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In 2004, a group of 7 soldiers in Abu Ghraib videotaped themselves torturing civilians they were supposed to be guarding. People around the globe were wondering how there was all that evil in these seven men and women. The military leaders answered them by saying they were, “rogue soldiers” and “a few bad apples.” Zimbardo thought otherwise, he believes that they were good apples in a bad barrel. He thinks that the cause of them doing these evil things were because the were in an evil environment. Before this incident, in August of 1971, Professor Philip Zimbardo conducted an experiment at Stanford University. It tested on how good people turned evil, it was titled: the Stanford Prison Experiment. He collected a group of intelligent college students that were willing to enact the roles of prisoners and Guards. This experiment ended up just like the incident Abu Ghraib. The students were abusing one another, the guards turned into perpetrators of evil, while the prisoners became pathologically passive. The guards wore what basic prison guards would wear with mirrored sunglasses, while the prisoners wore smocks and had ID-numbers. This apparel helped create an atmosphere for abuse. The
In 2004, a group of 7 soldiers in Abu Ghraib videotaped themselves torturing civilians they were supposed to be guarding. People around the globe were wondering how there was all that evil in these seven men and women. The military leaders answered them by saying they were, “rogue soldiers” and “a few bad apples.” Zimbardo thought otherwise, he believes that they were good apples in a bad barrel. He thinks that the cause of them doing these evil things were because the were in an evil environment. Before this incident, in August of 1971, Professor Philip Zimbardo conducted an experiment at Stanford University. It tested on how good people turned evil, it was titled: the Stanford Prison Experiment. He collected a group of intelligent college students that were willing to enact the roles of prisoners and Guards. This experiment ended up just like the incident Abu Ghraib. The students were abusing one another, the guards turned into perpetrators of evil, while the prisoners became pathologically passive. The guards wore what basic prison guards would wear with mirrored sunglasses, while the prisoners wore smocks and had ID-numbers. This apparel helped create an atmosphere for abuse. The