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My definition of evil that I would apply at the end of the course: psychological or physical harm done onto someone or people due to dispositional, personality, and environmental factors. This can be done with the intent to cause harm, with intent to do harm for some greater good to occur, or with no intentContinue reading “Wrapping things up”

“It is difficult and perhaps impossible to understand any human phenomenon at the same time that one is condemning it. Setting aside one’s moral values, however risky that may be, is helpful when one attempts to understand the perpetrators of evil.” In order to understand why an evil act occurs you need to be ableContinue reading “Moral Judgement and The Perpetrator”

What I found most surprising about the reading this week was that right away two points were made about abuse that did not get addressed properly in a military setting. One was that ends justify the means when it comes to making decisions to do evil acts that are legal but not ethical. In otherContinue reading “Allowing Abuse”

While I recognized many of the studies talked about early in the first chapter, one study stood out to me which I would not have expected. The one study talked about how 100% of women went to the highest level of shocking to train a puppy who was showing obvious signs of distress from theContinue reading “Abuse of Dogs”

In the reading, one of the guards of the Stanford Prison Experiment after the experiment was over talked about how when one enters such experiment as a guard they create themselves as a guard defining who they are and yet they want to say that the person they are during such experiment is not themContinue reading “An Evil Person?”

In the reading for this week it was talked about how in the Stanford Prison experiment, when visitors came there was reduced contact, talks of not being allowed to leave, and a perceived rushed/limited amount of time to visit. In class we talked about how prisoners felt there were not able to leave. One ofContinue reading “Family Visiting Prisoners”

The reading and the class discussed how when people were being recruited for the Stanford prison experiment to participate as prisoners the study was started by police bringing them into police cars to bring them to the location of the study. This set fear into the participants before they even were treated as prisoners byContinue reading “Fear of Cops (rightfully so)”

In this weeks reading we read about how when people are told to do something evil, it creates a confusion about what the line between good and evil is, and that when there is confusion for the line between good and evil, the person is more likely to do the evil act. As well, weContinue reading “Controlling Evil and the Blurred Line of When it Occurs”

In the reading, it was said that people laugh while doing an evil act out of sadism – taking pleasure in harm. During the discussion in class it was pointed out that people may laugh while doing something evil for other reasons such as laughing as a coping mechanism. This stood out to me becauseContinue reading “Evil Laughter”

First and Second Blog Post This week we looked at how to define evil in a way which it could be measured. Some of the words that summarized what we considered to define evil were repeatable, impulsive, norms, continuum, intent, goal, and immorality. Evil, to us, needed to be considered not normal to the generalContinue reading “Blog Posts”