Good v.s. Evil
Philip Zimbardo is a psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. The man himself is 83 from New York, New York and has seen things at a very young age that no child or person for that matter, should ever be exposed to. " Good and evil is the yin and yang of human condition", says Philip, and he is absolutely right. Even in the bible, God's favorite angel was Lucifer and the name 'Lucifer' itself, means 'light-bearer'. Philip not only touches on this fact, but dedicates a whole genre of human behavior titled the 'Lucifer effect' ; where good can be bad. This is mainly caused by an unnecessary abundance of power.
In his Stanford prison experiment, where he and his team observed the prisoners being tortured in every which way possible, Philip found out that the people in charge usually had this type of excuse, quote; "Don't blame us, it's not the system, it's the few bad apples". So instead of pointing fingers find out, "What could be the 'who' of people and can also be the 'what' of the situation"-the reasoning behind their behavior from being goo to evil.
Of course everyone would want to choose good no matter the difference, but it mostly depends on how much you value your morality and are humbled by it. The Crucibles also went through similar trials of choosing whether to be good or evil. For example, Reverend Parris.
Reverend Parris, enslaved a black Barbados woman that is in her forties, and from just the very beginning of this book, we found out that she gets whipped whenever there is a problem. Not only that but this Reverend also cares mostly about how he looks than the actual well-being of his daughter, then turns around and hypocritically preaches with a 'holier than thou' attitude. As said by Dostoevsky (and quoted by Philip) "Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; nothing more difficult than understanding him.
In his Stanford prison experiment, where he and his team observed the prisoners being tortured in every which way possible, Philip found out that the people in charge usually had this type of excuse, quote; "Don't blame us, it's not the system, it's the few bad apples". So instead of pointing fingers find out, "What could be the 'who' of people and can also be the 'what' of the situation"-the reasoning behind their behavior from being goo to evil.
Of course everyone would want to choose good no matter the difference, but it mostly depends on how much you value your morality and are humbled by it. The Crucibles also went through similar trials of choosing whether to be good or evil. For example, Reverend Parris.
Reverend Parris, enslaved a black Barbados woman that is in her forties, and from just the very beginning of this book, we found out that she gets whipped whenever there is a problem. Not only that but this Reverend also cares mostly about how he looks than the actual well-being of his daughter, then turns around and hypocritically preaches with a 'holier than thou' attitude. As said by Dostoevsky (and quoted by Philip) "Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; nothing more difficult than understanding him.