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This 10 page paper focuses on the book called The Lucifer Effect. Why people commit evil acts is the focus of discussion. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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standard way of discussing evil is associated with features that are inhumane. That is, there are some people who believe that people are all good. Human beings are good by
nature. When something goes wrong, and people are murdered or tortured for example, then evil is in charge. They see evil as associated with some negative force in the world
as opposed to human nature. Yet, the evil of which these individuals speak is really human nature and all human beings are capable of committing evil acts. Under the right
circumstances, a human being will commit evil acts as long as there is a group consensus behind him. In The Lucifer Effect, Phillip Zimbardo (2008) relays information on his well
known Stanford Prison experiment. The book interprets the findings. Zimbardo (2008) introduces the material with several concepts and also relays the idea that during the terrorist attacks, President Bush made
some insinuations about the evil nature of the terrorists. The author goes on to look at evil and what makes people tick. Zimbardo (2008) defines evil as follows: "Evil consists
in intentionally behaving in ways that harm, abuse, demean, dehumanize, or destroy innocent others-or using ones authority and systemic power to encourage or permit others to do so on your
behalf" (p.5). Despite the fact that the book is titled The Lucifer Effect, what makes people tick according to the author has nothing to do with the Devil or some
evil force outside of the human being. Human nature is capable of evil. In the experiment that is the focus of Zimbardos (2008) work, there is attention to the prison
system. He writes: "Prisons can be brutalizing places that invoke what is the worst in human nature" (p.206). In the experiment that Zimbardo conducted, the subjects were college students. The
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