"Why did this happen, you ask? It's simple. Your military chose to shoot at the servants of God today, and all they got for their effort was terror. Then, the LORD your God sent a crazed madman to shoot at your children. Was God asleep while this took place? Was He on vacation? Of course not. He willed this to happen to punish you for assailing His servants."
> Violence is not caused by a great external overwhelming force, > not even violence on an unimaginable scale. It is caused by > something that we (most of us) have the power and will to overcome.
KQED's Forum had an interview Monday with Professor Phillip Zimbardo, the psychologist that ran the Stanford Prison experiment back in 1971. It's a fascinating interview and if you have time, it would be well worth your while to listen to the whole piece.
Professor Zimbardo recently published a book called The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil based on that early study and from an intensive look at what that experiment could tell us about what happened at Abu Ghraib. Professor Zimbardo believes that one thing his experiment did was to show how anyone is capable of doing evil things when the situation in which they operate makes that seem normal.
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"Why did this happen, you ask? It's simple. Your military chose to shoot at the servants of God today, and all they got for their effort was terror. Then, the LORD your God sent a crazed madman to shoot at your children. Was God asleep while this took place? Was He on vacation? Of course not. He willed this to happen to punish you for assailing His servants."
http://community.livejournal.com/dark_christian/791926.html
> Violence is not caused by a great external overwhelming force,
> not even violence on an unimaginable scale. It is caused by
> something that we (most of us) have the power and will to overcome.
Somes I agree, but sometimes the environment plays a big part in shaping people's reactions. See The Lucifer Effect
http://www.pacificviews.org/weblog/archives/002585.html
KQED's Forum had an interview Monday with Professor Phillip Zimbardo, the psychologist that ran the Stanford Prison experiment back in 1971. It's a fascinating interview and if you have time, it would be well worth your while to listen to the whole piece.
Professor Zimbardo recently published a book called The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil based on that early study and from an intensive look at what that experiment could tell us about what happened at Abu Ghraib. Professor Zimbardo believes that one thing his experiment did was to show how anyone is capable of doing evil things when the situation in which they operate makes that seem normal.