The questions everyone asked, but no one really knows the answers. Are humans, by nature, evil? Or, are they good? Does society take perfectly healthy people and turn them into evil monsters? Or, are certain people born to do evil?
He is able to see several sociological effects such as coercion, conflict, conformity and in his case diffusion of responsibility. His work showed how the leader of a group can sway people to do bad things like Hitler and Stalin did. The Lucifer Effect: Understanding how good people Turn Evil Contributing or challenging my thinking on the subject My opinion on leaders and followers were substantiated by the research of Philip Zimbardo he finds that at first the guards treat the inmates like a normal person but when one of the guards decides to become the “leader” and begins dehumanizing the inmates the other guards quickly join in. Without knowing what the guards (students) were actually thinking I can only determine that the students stereotyped the guards and inmates to play the roles they were assigned. The fact that one person becoming the leader of a group with a few hardcore members can coerce
Persuasive essay Would you not do whatever it takes just to know that there is one less murderer on our planet? Give justice to the vistim’s grieving family at any cost? Many people believe that capital punishmant is unethical and should be abolished. But presently, the crime rate is rapidly increasing due to the lack of effective capital punishment. The murderers deserve to be executed like they killed their victims.
ARTICLE CRITIQUE ON THE PERILS OF OBEDIENCE In Stanley Milgram’s article The Perils of Obedience, Milgram designs an experiment to understand how strong a person’s tendency to obey authority, even though it’s immoral or destructive. Milgram said that most of the ordinary people follow obedience to authority in today’s society, whom often abandons their own ideas and beliefs. The Holocaust is an example of this. The Germans were told by Hitler to kill the Jews, they dismissed their own morals and obeyed Hitler’s commands. However, he made conclusions that were beyond the scope of the study and lacked further validation.
It is just those selfish, greedy people who decide that they want more than what is rightfully theirs. There are also other factors to war but it will always be that the side that attempts to harm as little people as possible, who will be peceived as the ‘good side’. The greedy individuals create fear and anger and feed it into the minds of the people by controlling their emotions and twisting their opinions, for example: Adolf Hitler managed to persuade hundreds of people to dislike Jewish people, friends became enemies, colleagues became strangers. He also fed them images of the ‘perfect German’. This is an example of how people can be trained to do anything just like animals.
Everyone in the world agrees that the action of Adolf Hitler in the Holocaust was an abomination and inexcusable. Many people see Adolf Hitler himself as a devil, so why would anyone except religious inspired violence. The Holocaust is the most known incident but there are numerous religious inspired acts of torture and execution. All of which are just as wrong, evil and inexcusable as the Holocaust. Issue #2-War is always a last resort; the lives of many people are lost in wars.
In his novel, Victor thorn claims that the holocaust was a hoax. He claims that it would have been impossible to organize such a catastrophic event while fighting a war. He does believe that many Jews were forced into concentration camps, but he states that these were work camps, used to make goods for the war. He points out the flaws in witness testimonies, the lack of hard evidence, and also uses science to support his claims. He includes many references and photos to support his claims.
Are people born good or bad? Michael Caballero Although Hobbes was right about nature of people that is evil he was wrong about government having absolute power, in the other hand Locke was right about power corrupts the people but wrong about people being born with a clean slate. For example Adolf Hitler, he was the worst because he killed a lot of innocent Jews. Hobbes thought that the world was evil because he lived during a war and saw stuff that nobody would want to see. Ayatollah Khomeini one of the 20th century's most ruthless leaders.
Conformity happens through social pressure, adopting the attitude and behaviour of what others do to fit in, this may be totally against what the individual believes but conforms never the less,Conformity can lead to destructive obedience, this refers to individuals following orders which they think to be immoral, which will cause them a lot of stress and regret. For example Adolf Eichmann, who was a logistical genius, was the officer who was executed in 1962 for his part in the holocaust. He was accused of organizing, transporting and the killing of millions of Jews, communists, gypsies and trade unionists. Eichmann stated that he was 'simply obeying orders'. After the Holocaust psychologists set out to investigate 'human obedience'.
In Nazi Germany the police were allowed to arrest anyone they suspected to be a threat to the party and anyone who openly opposed Nazi in public would be tortured, even to death. The SS largely helped Hitler to eliminate political rivals and was loyal till his death compared to the army and without such support, Hitler would face serious political challenges and lose much public support. The propaganda also played an important role in helping Hitler advertising his political ideology and ideas. The Nazi propaganda department was led by Joseph Goebbels, a Ph.D. in philosophy. Radio, newspapers, magazines, books, theatre, films, music and art were all supervised.