The Author Dr. Phillip Zimbardo creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment states how good people can have intentions of becoming evil. He argues that good people can become bad people and that bad people can become good people. In this interesting article the author Dr. Phillip Zimbardo focuses on what really makes people become bad people. He uses Lucifer as an example.
Lucifer an angel of God who used to God’s light bearer and favorite angel questions God’s authority and was sent to hell on earth. He uses a quote from Milton’s Paradise Lost “Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven,” boasts Satan, the Adversary of God.” This is just one of the many descriptions and stories the author uses to explain his argument. He challenges people to reflect on themselves and their assumptions in human nature. The daily works people do their survival in environments that are harmful full of criminal acts. …show more content…
He gives examples and descriptions of what people used to do in their lives and then suddenly changes because of the situation they are in or the power of other people they face up against. He uses the Tutsi and Hutu people an example. The Tutsi who were peaceful people thought that their neighbor the Hutu tribe can use a simple machete against them as weapon of mass destruction; therefore causing thousands of the Tutsi people to be killed within one week. But this was not the only dehumanizing and tragic event the author mentioned years before the Tutsi and Hutu tribes there was the Trojan War.
A war between the Trojans and the Greek forces whose commander Agamemnon tells is soldiers the “We are not going to leave a single one of [the Trojans] alive, down to the babies in their mother’s womb- not even they must live. The ability to wipe out a tribe of people or culture because of power and the belief that one person is better than the
Lucifer an angel of God who used to God’s light bearer and favorite angel questions God’s authority and was sent to hell on earth. He uses a quote from Milton’s Paradise Lost “Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven,” boasts Satan, the Adversary of God.” This is just one of the many descriptions and stories the author uses to explain his argument. He challenges people to reflect on themselves and their assumptions in human nature. The daily works people do their survival in environments that are harmful full of criminal acts. …show more content…
He gives examples and descriptions of what people used to do in their lives and then suddenly changes because of the situation they are in or the power of other people they face up against. He uses the Tutsi and Hutu people an example. The Tutsi who were peaceful people thought that their neighbor the Hutu tribe can use a simple machete against them as weapon of mass destruction; therefore causing thousands of the Tutsi people to be killed within one week. But this was not the only dehumanizing and tragic event the author mentioned years before the Tutsi and Hutu tribes there was the Trojan War.
A war between the Trojans and the Greek forces whose commander Agamemnon tells is soldiers the “We are not going to leave a single one of [the Trojans] alive, down to the babies in their mother’s womb- not even they must live. The ability to wipe out a tribe of people or culture because of power and the belief that one person is better than the