Zimbardo confirms that situation can change normal "nice" people into bad ones. The interesting point of his lecture is about antidote for evil. I agree that heroism is a cure and the only right choice in many situations. Actually, he doesn't say much about the reasons that make people heroes - well, he talks about courage of getting involve, but not much more. I think that there is something that make people indifferent nowadays, something that stop them against being a hero. It is relativism. Why? Because relativism messes up ideas of good and bad and helps to find a good explanation for inappropriate behavior.
What else to say? People may extremely bad in some situations. There is no need to look far away. Authority and power are a lethal combination. That feeling that you can do harm without any consequences is dreadful.
What Zimbardo proved is someting that has been used for ages by people with power. We like to think that we wouldn't be evil in a bad situation but the truth is that very few of us will behave like a hero. We are much more conformist than we think we are.
Zimbardo confirms that situation can change normal "nice" people into bad ones. The interesting point of his lecture is about antidote for evil. I agree that heroism is a cure and the only right choice in many situations. Actually, he doesn't say much about the reasons that make people heroes - well, he talks about courage of getting involve, but not much more. I think that there is something that make people indifferent nowadays, something that stop them against being a hero. It is relativism. Why? Because relativism messes up ideas of good and bad and helps to find a good explanation for inappropriate behavior.
ReplyDeleteWhat else to say? People may extremely bad in some situations. There is no need to look far away. Authority and power are a lethal combination. That feeling that you can do harm without any consequences is dreadful.
ReplyDeleteWhat Zimbardo proved is someting that has been used for ages by people with power. We like to think that we wouldn't be evil in a bad situation but the truth is that very few of us will behave like a hero. We are much more conformist than we think we are.
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