""Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. Outrage provokes outrage. Millions nurture seething hatred of real or imagined enemies, revealing savage and destructive tendencies…
"There are many forms of human destructiveness: war, rape, murder, slavery, the Holocaust, other manifestations of genocide, oppression, torture, theft, exploitation, child abuse, gang warfare, and extortion, to name just a few. There are also everyday "little" ways in which we …
"Human destructiveness can take many forms, from the everyday little ways in which we hurt each other to atrocities like genocide and slavery. The capacity for such destructiveness is often referred to as humanity's dark side. Although an abundance of literature considers possib…
Good -- or at least ordinary -- people can be brought to do bad things. Moral people can be seduced to act immorally. How this happens has been the life-study of Philip Zimbardo, creator of the famous Stanford Prison Experiment and follow-up studies. In this book he explains the…