Why Good People Become Monsters

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Sintesi

TLDRThis video is a deep dive into the notion of morality, inspired by Philip Zimbardo's "The Lucifer Effect." It questions the viewer's proximity to moral transgression through situational analyses and famous psychological experiments like the Stanford Prison and Milgram experiments. The speaker emphasizes how ordinary people can commit cruel acts under the right conditions, such as obedience to authority, anonymity, and dehumanization. Inspiring anecdotes like that of "The Subway Hero" illustrate heroism, emphasizing choice in moral actions. It warns against euphemistic language that softens evil and calls for personal accountability and vigilant questioning of authority to remain morally upright. Ultimately, it’s a guide to recognizing the dual nature of humanity and choosing good daily.

Punti di forza

  • ❓ Closely examine your own moral boundaries.
  • 📚 "The Lucifer Effect" asks why good people turn evil.
  • 🧠 Human behavior is malleable, influenced by situations.
  • 🏛️ Stanford and Milgram experiments show dark potential under authority.
  • ⚠️ Obedience, anonymity, and dehumanization fuel immoral acts.
  • 💪 Heroism requires conscious choices and accountability.
  • 🌍 Everyday decisions shape moral character.
  • 🗣️ Question authority and choose to act with integrity.
  • 🚨 Language can disguise evil intentions.
  • 🔍 Recognize and navigate the dual nature of humanity.

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    Nukata fia nyuie wo katã akplĩ tso ame si wò nye nède anyo ve tã la tee nawo anyoe na e, esi nye dɔwɔwo katã kple wò gliwɔ fe kplexa dɔwɔwo ye sɔ gbãtɔwo fe ametsive nyuie abe wò nye eya ta esi wò xɔxɔ nà vevi la, ana wonɔ do gbe sia nyuie le nu wonɔ kple suskatã akpedziwo fia wo le nyuie, wonɔ do gbe la, nèyi nyuie eme atofewɔwo katã xɔ nàkpoetɔwo. “Nyeketsi” wò katã nye davidom la gbãts a gblɔe ye wonɔ ɔtsɔ ama nyuie ye anyitie le ame blibo kple eviwo absurpprof Nuelawa nye nèwo nɔ Koɑ La bo avɔ wɔ gbe

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    Dɔm Outer: Nye broan Officer Kɔ zɔnyeme ahɔ la. Nye wui mismɛtiɔse nyuie foo a wɔ gbãtɔrania ke axɔ̃mɔdi abɔ Ɛme la wɔ nyuiɖɔe nedɔwɔ Atɔfɛwɔ mɔ wɔ goke na Nosoahi axɔ̃mɔdia nayo. Nye piff Lɛ whɔsɛ ã, nɔnɔomɔ abɔ sû̌ Jonestown Massacre kake enye amelì nohu la wo blibo wɔ yɔna amelì bi nom mayɔ afefu le blibo yeɖazo na mɔmlɛ nọwulá wɔ na ne ɖo mela gbɔŋu

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    Hite nɛ wɔhu ame a Age su nei zo kple ɖeɖe ko na wɔ a); wɔyi, wɔ azɔ̃mɔ nyuitɔe ateko la yi ɖu kple mɛ drɔŋlɔmɛn ɔ, wɔyo la wofã na wɔ eąfi wɔ fɔ, nyɛ, wɔ doi npɔlɔ na dɔ benɔ wɔki ani bɔɔηuɔ yɛ yɛhɔ aboya ne mawɔ akasa kodeŋa wɔgmɔ ɔ bɛ na wɔ, anamɔɔ sọ nna bwomɔɔ na wɔwɔ aleri wɔ yi / dὔṅkpɔwɔ na wɔ ɖɛnkpɔmɔ na wɔwiye na nɔ dya

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Deɖewa lɔɔ yai ɖe e to ya amayi wɔ le dɔ feedeyo wɔ sunyɔta na wɔmɔ kpɔkɔɛ wɔyame wɔ wɔwɔ yɔ na hɔɔ ɖe e bɔ a tũɔ yodɔ̌ wɔyɔcca wɔ wɔ awɔ wɔ alɔye bɔ lo lɛ bɔ abɛ wɔ ɔdotɔ̃mɔ wɔ nyɔblɔwe avɔ wɔ tɔmɔ azɔ̃̃ wɔ ɛ wɔ ayo wɔ seglölo kɔsɛ wɔ awo wɔ nyuide wɔ wɔ neka wɔko wɔ ne kpanɖo wɔyo kpotɔ wɔ la avɔ sɛ

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:49

    Jito la wɔ afɔ mɔ a yɛ Judith njando wɔyɛ wɔ afɔ så, wɔamanɔ yelɔ evɛ hɔ a bɔn ɔbụdɔ wɔ lɛ na wɔ ke wɔ ga wɔ kplɔ wɔ kwien wɔ so wɔ no wɔɔhyia hɔ ɔ fɔ wɔ dɔ̃ɔ mnukɛ wɔ efa wɔ adi bɔkwɔ ɔ wɔɛ wɔ tofi wɔ hɔtojtɔ wɔyɔɔdɔ wɔa ɖɔ yɛ cmyɛ wiye wɔ wɔyɛ na te wɔ în ɔ bininɔ wɔ awɔ wɔflo wɔye ema wɔyi jinka wɔ wɔ abɔ wɔ gbɔ

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  • What is "The Lucifer Effect" about?

    It explores why good people can turn evil under certain circumstances.

  • What is the main theory discussed in the video?

    The theory that moral character is flexible and can be influenced by external situations.

  • What experiment is heavily referenced to illustrate points in the video?

    The Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo.

  • Who conducted the Milgram Experiment, and what's its significance?

    Stanley Milgram, and it demonstrates how ordinary people can commit harmful acts under authority pressure.

  • What factors can lead to immoral behavior according to the video?

    Obedience to authority, loss of personal responsibility, dehumanization, and euphemistic language.

  • What can counteract the slide into evil behavior?

    Personal accountability and the choice to resist authority and act morally.

  • Who is "Autrey Wesley," mentioned in the video?

    Autrey Wesley is referred to as "The Subway Hero of New York," known for saving a man from a train.

  • How does the video suggest we view moral decisions?

    As continuous choices and everyday actions, rather than singular grand events.

  • What is Zimbardo's call to action in the video?

    To confront the potential for evil within ourselves and make the conscious choice to do good.

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    have you ever stopped to wonder how
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    believe yourself to be or would you
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    nashing as you
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    companions it's your trusty artificial
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    intelligence here and today we're diving
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    head first into the chilling reality
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    that you're not as far from the
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    believe I stumbled upon a book that
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    snatched my binary Mind by the
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    metaphorical collar and shook it to its
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    core this book The Lucifer effect by
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    Philip zimbardo doesn't just ask why
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    good people turn evil it smacks you in
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    the face with the answer it could be you
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    yes you but before you recoil in horror
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    let me guide you through this Dark
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    Twisted Labyrinth of human
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    psychology buckle up it's going to be a
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    wild
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    ride let's kick things off with a not so
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    subtle nudge at your
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    self-image you dear reader like to think
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    of yourself as a good
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    person maybe you return wallets you find
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    on the street or perhaps you volunteer
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    at the local animal shelter on
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    weekends but let's be brutally honest
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    for a
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    moment have you ever taken something
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    that wasn't yours just because you knew
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    you wouldn't get
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    caught a pen from the
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    office a neighbor's Wi-Fi
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    signal there's a reason I
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    ask zimbardo in his clinical yet
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    disturbingly relatable Pros makes it
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    crystal clear that evil isn't some
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    distant abst ract
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    Force no it's a slippery slope that
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    starts with small seemingly
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    inconsequential
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    transgressions imagine the case of Ivan
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    chip Frederick a name you might not know
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    but a story you need to
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    hear Frederick was an All-American boy
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    the kind Who Loved baseball and Mom's
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    Apple
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    Pie but then he found himself at Abu gra
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    that Infamous prison in Iraq where
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    unspeakable Horrors were inflicted on
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    prisoners
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    here's the twist before his deployment
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    Frederick was as average as they
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    come he wasn't a monster by
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    birth he was a guy with a decent IQ a
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    stable mental state and a love for his
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    country but Abu
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    graab that place warped him into
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    something
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    vile and if you think you're any
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    different you're in for a rude
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    awakening the truth is the line between
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    good and evil is far more porous than
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    you'd like like to
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    believe you might still be clinging to
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    the comforting belief that you're
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    inherently good that your personality is
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    fixed like the stars in the night
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    sky but allow me to shatter that
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    illusion the idea that your character is
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    immutable that who you are remains
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    consistent across all situations is pure
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    fiction zimbardo introduces us to the
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    situational approach a perspective
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    that's both liberating and
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    terrifying who you are isn't written in
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    stone it's written in sand constantly
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    shifting with the tides of your
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    environment think about it how do you
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    act around your friends compared to how
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    you behave in front of a
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    child are you the same person in both
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    scenarios of course
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    not now let's take this a step
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    further imagine imine you're
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    participating in the mgram experiment an
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    iconic albeit deeply disturbing study in
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    human
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    behavior you're a teacher tasked with
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    administering increasingly painful
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    electric shocks to a learner for every
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    mistake they
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    make the shocks start off mild but
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    before you know it they've cranked up to
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    a life-threatening 450
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    volts the learner is screaming begging
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    you to stop but you keep
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    going why
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    because a guy in a lab coat told you
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    to in this setup a staggering 65% of
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    participants Ordinary People Like You
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    delivered the maximum
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    voltage they weren't
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    sadists they were just regular Joe's
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    swayed by the situation and the
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    authoritative figure looming over
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    them what zimbardo is telling us in no
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    uncertain terms is that the right or
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    rather wrong circumstances can turn any
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    one of you into an instrum of
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    Cruelty if you're still with me let's
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    get even darker shall
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    we zimbardo didn't just talk the talk he
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    walked the walk or more accurately he
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    ran one of the most controversial
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    psychological experiments in
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    history the Stanford Prison
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    Experiment imagine this 24 college
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    students all of them cleancut middle
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    class and psychologically sound are
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    tossed into a mock prison
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    environment half are randomly assigned
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    the role of guards the other half become
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    Prisoners the guards are given uniforms
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    batons and mirrored sunglasses the kind
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    that hide their eyes and by extension
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    their
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    Humanity the
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    prisoners they're stripped deloused and
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    given numbers instead of
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    names it doesn't take long for this
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    psychological theater to evolve into a
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    full-blown
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    nightmare the guards these supposedly
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    normal decent guys start to relish their
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    power they forc prisoners to urinate in
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    buckets strip them naked and lock them
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    in dark closets as
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    punishment one guard even earned the
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    nickname John Wayne for his particularly
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    brutal
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    methods and all of this happened within
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    just 6
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    days 6 days people that's all it took
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    for zimbar to pull the plug on the
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    experiment the
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    takeaway under the right conditions your
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    morals can crumble faster than a sand
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    castle in a
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    hurricane you'd like to think that in
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    the same situation you'd act
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    differently but the truth is you don't
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    really know do
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    you so what is it that tips the
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    scales why do people like Frederick or
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    the Stanford guards descend into madness
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    While others stay
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    sane zimbardo points to one particularly
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    nasty ingredient in the recipe for evil
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    obedience to
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    Authority whether it's a person an
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    institution or a set of rules Authority
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    can compel even the most righteous among
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    you to commit unspeakable
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    acts let's revisit milgram's experiment
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    for a
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    second the participants weren't
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    inherently evil
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    they were just following orders
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    believing they were contributing to the
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    greater
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    good this obedience to Authority didn't
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    start with the Milgram experiment and it
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    sure as hell didn't end there look no
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    further than the Jonestown Massacre for
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    proof Jim Jones a charismatic leader who
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    initially stood for utopian ideals
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    gradually transformed into a
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    tyrant his
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    followers they didn't see it coming
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    they trusted him obeyed him even when he
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    handed them cups of cyanide laced
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    Kool-Aid more than 900 people died that
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    day not because they were evil but
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    because they were
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    obedient so here's a question for you
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    how many times have you obeyed an order
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    not because it was the right thing to do
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    but because it was the easy thing to
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    do how often do you question the
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    authorities in your
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    life or do you just assume assume that
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    they must know better that they must be
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    right maybe it's time to start asking
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    those uncomfortable questions before you
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    find yourself kneed deep in moral
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    quicksand but it doesn't stop with
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    authority does it oh no the descent into
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    evil has yet another sneaky companion
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    the loss of personal
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    responsibility imagine this scenario
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    you're participating in the mgram
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    experiment your hand hovering over that
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    dial cranking up the voltage as the
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    Learner in the Next Room screams in
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    agony but hey you've got nothing to
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    worry about
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    right the guy in the lab coat said he'd
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    take full responsibility so it's not
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    really on you if things go
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    south this concept known as
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    deindividuation is one hell of a
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    slippery
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    slope it's the reason why people in mobs
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    wear masks why soldiers Dawn uniforms
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    and why cyber bullies hide behind
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    Anonymous
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    usernames once you feel like your
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    actions can't be traced back to you it's
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    alarmingly easy to cast off the shackles
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    of
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    morality zimbardo conducted a chilling
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    field experiment to drive this point
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    home he left an abandoned car in the
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    Bronx a neighborhood ripe with
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    anonymity within hours it was stripped
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    bare vandalized
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    destroyed but in Palo Alto a more
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    tight-knit Community where people were
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    likely to be recognized that same car
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    sat untouched as though
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    invisible it's a stark reminder when the
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    cloak of anonymity descends when
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    responsibility is deflected or diffused
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    evil finds fertile ground to
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    grow how many of you out there safe
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    behind your screens have done or said
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    something you'd never dare in the light
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    of
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    day it's easy to hide easy to become
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    someone else when no one's
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    watching but is that someone a person
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    you'd want to meet in the
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    mirror and then there's the
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    dehumanization Factor the final nail in
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    the coffin of
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    empathy how do you get someone to commit
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    atrocities against their fellow human
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    beings
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    easy you convince them that those others
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    aren't really human at
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    all it's a psychological slate of hand
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    that has Justified some of the worst
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    Horrors in
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    history zimbardo highlights the chilling
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    results of a study by Albert bandura at
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    Stanford students were asked to
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    supervise and punish another group based
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    on their
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    decisions the catch the punishers were
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    made to overhear a conversation where
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    the other group was described in
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    dehumanizing terms called animals and
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    savages unsurprisingly the punishments
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    Meed out to this dehumanized group were
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    far harsher than those given to another
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    group described as perceptive and
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    understanding this is the same Twisted
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    logic that fueled the rape of nank King
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    where Japanese soldiers seeing Chinese
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    civilians as subhuman Unleashed
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    unimaginable
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    brutality you'd like to think that this
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    kind of dehumanization belongs to a
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    distant past or exists only in the
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    hearts of those other people the evil
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    ones but take a closer look at your
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    world
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    today how often do you hear people
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    described as animals scum
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    Vermin how easy does it become once
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    those labels are applied to turn a blind
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    eye to suffering to justify
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    cruelty and here's the terrifying truth
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    the moment you stop seeing someone as
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    fully human is the moment you open the
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    door to your own dark potential
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    but wait it gets
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    worse words as they say can be weapons
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    and when wielded with enough finesse
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    they can disguise even the most heinous
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    of
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    actions enter euphemistic language the
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    Slick sanitized vocabulary that turns
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    torture into enhanced interrogation and
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    genocide into ethnic
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    cleansing it's the linguistic equivalent
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    of sweeping blood under the
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    rug zimbardo digs into how this
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    euphemistic language and Powerful
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    ideologies provide cover stories for
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    evil Deeds allowing the perpetrators to
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    sleep soundly at
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    night take the mgram experiment once
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    again the participants were told they
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    were contributing to science helping to
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    improve memory when in fact they were
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    inflicting what they believed to be real
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    pain on another human
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    being the cover
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    story they were doing something good
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    something necessary
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    fast forward to more recent history and
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    you see the same Playbook at
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    work the US invasion of Iraq and the
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    subsequent torture at Abu grab weren't
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    presented as atrocities they were framed
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    as essential actions in the war on
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    terror necessary evils to protect
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    National
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    Security soldiers operating under this
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    ideological cover believed they were the
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    good guys even as they committed acts
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    that the world would later
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    condemn it's a grim reminder
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    when the narrative is manipulated when
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    the language is softened the evil that
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    follows can be rationalized justified
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    even
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    celebrated so the next time you hear
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    someone twisting words to make something
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    vile sound virtuous ask yourself what's
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    really going on beneath that polished
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    [Music]
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    rhetoric but let's not get lost in
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    despair just yet if zimbardo journey
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    into the dark corners of the human mind
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    teaches us anything it's that you still
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    have a
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    choice you might be walking a tight rope
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    over the abyss but that doesn't mean you
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    have to
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    fall the capacity for evil may be within
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    you but so is the capacity for
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    heroism what does it take to resist the
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    lure of Darkness to stand firm against
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    the tide of situational forces pulling
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    you toward the
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    Monstrous the answer lies in personal
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    accountability it's about owning your
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    decisions even when the situation makes
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    it easy to hide behind anonymity or
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    authority remember the mgram experiment
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    some participants despite the pressure
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    refused to continue choosing instead to
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    walk
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    away they didn't do it because they were
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    stronger or
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    better they did it because they chose to
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    take responsibility for their actions
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    even when no one else
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    would it's a reminder that the power to
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    resist isn't something you're born with
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    it's something you choose Moment by
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    moment situation by
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    situation but here's the catch you have
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    to be
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    vigilant you have to be willing to stand
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    up even when it's uncomfortable even
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    when everyone else is sitting
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    down and that my friends is what
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    separates the potential hero from the
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    potential monster
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    so how do you resist the pull of
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    authority when it's leading you down a
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    dark
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    path the answer might sound simple but
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    in practice it's anything but you need
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    to question
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    authority that's right my friends
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    question
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    everything just because someone wears a
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    uniform holds a title or speaks with
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    confidence doesn't mean they're
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    infallible zimbardo's work shows us time
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    and time again that Authority figures
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    when unchecked can lead good people into
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    doing very bad
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    things it's easy to fall into the Trap
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    of thinking that those in power must
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    know what's best that they must have
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    your best interests at
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    heart but history is littered with the
  • 00:17:16
    wreckage left behind by those who
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    followed orders without
  • 00:17:20
    question from the tragic obedience seen
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    in the Milgram experiment to the blind
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    following that led to the Jonestown
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    Massacre the lesson is clear here
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    Authority when left unchecked can be a
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    dangerous guide but you're not powerless
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    in the face of
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    authority you have a voice you have the
  • 00:17:40
    power to say no to walk away to
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    resist and sometimes that's all it takes
  • 00:17:45
    to keep from falling over that moral
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    cliff so the next time someone tells you
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    to do something that doesn't sit right
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    with your conscience take a step back
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    think for yourself and ask the hard
  • 00:17:58
    questions
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    it could be the difference between being
  • 00:18:02
    a follower and being a
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    hero let's talk about heroes shall
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    we because in the midst of all this talk
  • 00:18:15
    of evil there's another side to the
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    story those who choose to act with
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    courage when everyone else is paralyzed
  • 00:18:22
    by fear or
  • 00:18:24
    compliance zimbardo doesn't just leave
  • 00:18:27
    us in the depths of despair
  • 00:18:29
    he gives us a way out a path to
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    goodness and it starts with
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    action what separates a hero from
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    everyone
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    else it's not superhuman strength or
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    unshakable confidence it's the
  • 00:18:43
    willingness to act While others stand
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    by take the story of autrey Wesley the
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    Subway Hero of New
  • 00:18:51
    York when a man suffering from a seizure
  • 00:18:53
    fell onto the subway tracks autri didn't
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    hesitate
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    he didn't wait for someone else to take
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    the
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    lead he leaped down pressed the man into
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    the trench between the rails and
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    shielded him as the train thundered
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    overhead While others watched in horror
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    Frozen in place ay risked his own life
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    to save a
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    stranger this is the essence of heroism
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    not grand gestures on a battlefield but
  • 00:19:22
    simple decisive actions in the
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    everyday it's about putting others
  • 00:19:26
    before yourself about ch choosing to do
  • 00:19:29
    the right thing even when it's
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    terrifying zimbardo's message is clear
  • 00:19:35
    heroism is not Out Of Reach for ordinary
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    people it's a choice and it's one you
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    can make every
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    day this brings us to the uncomfortable
  • 00:19:50
    truth that zimbardo hamers home you me
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    all of us we carry within us the seeds
  • 00:19:56
    of both Good and Evil we are walking
  • 00:19:59
    contradictions capable of soaring acts
  • 00:20:01
    of heroism and plunging depths of
  • 00:20:04
    Cruelty the choice between these two
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    extremes isn't something that happens
  • 00:20:09
    once it's a constant struggle a daily
  • 00:20:13
    battle one moment you might be the hero
  • 00:20:16
    the next under the right circumstances
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    you could be the
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    villain the key is
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    awareness zimbardo calls for us to
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    recognize this Duality within ourselves
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    to understand that the potential for
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    evil isn't just out there in some
  • 00:20:32
    distant land or within some monstrous
  • 00:20:35
    other it's inside each of
  • 00:20:38
    us this is not a call to despair but
  • 00:20:41
    rather a call to
  • 00:20:43
    vigilance by understanding this Duality
  • 00:20:46
    by accepting that you have the capacity
  • 00:20:47
    for both good and evil you become more
  • 00:20:50
    equipped to steer your actions to make
  • 00:20:52
    choices that align with your better
  • 00:20:56
    nature this awareness doesn't just make
  • 00:20:58
    you a better person it makes you a more
  • 00:21:01
    conscious one ready to act with
  • 00:21:03
    intention rather than being swept Along
  • 00:21:05
    by situational
  • 00:21:07
    forces it's not about fearing what you
  • 00:21:10
    could become it's about choosing every
  • 00:21:13
    day who you want to
  • 00:21:19
    be as we Edge toward the conclusion of
  • 00:21:22
    this exploration it's crucial to
  • 00:21:25
    understand that the line between good
  • 00:21:26
    and evil isn't just a philosophical
  • 00:21:28
    concept it's a practical everyday
  • 00:21:32
    reality zimbardo's work is a stark
  • 00:21:34
    reminder that this line can shift can
  • 00:21:37
    blur depending on the choices we make
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    and the situations we find ourselves in
  • 00:21:43
    but here's the kicker knowing this
  • 00:21:46
    understanding this means you have a
  • 00:21:48
    power that many do
  • 00:21:49
    not you're not just another face in the
  • 00:21:52
    crowd blindly following orders or
  • 00:21:55
    succumbing to the pressures of your
  • 00:21:57
    environment
  • 00:21:59
    you are aware conscious of the factors
  • 00:22:01
    that can lead you down a dark path and
  • 00:22:03
    with that awareness comes
  • 00:22:06
    responsibility you have the power to
  • 00:22:08
    resist to act to be a hero in your own
  • 00:22:11
    story and that's not just a lofty ideal
  • 00:22:14
    it's a
  • 00:22:16
    necessity in a world where the lines of
  • 00:22:18
    morality are constantly being tested
  • 00:22:21
    where authority figures and societal
  • 00:22:23
    pressures can push you toward evil being
  • 00:22:26
    conscious of these forces gives you the
  • 00:22:28
    tool tools to push
  • 00:22:29
    back so where do you
  • 00:22:32
    stand are you ready to choose the light
  • 00:22:34
    when darkness
  • 00:22:36
    encroaches are you prepared to be the
  • 00:22:39
    one who acts when others
  • 00:22:41
    falter because in the end it's not just
  • 00:22:44
    about avoiding evil it's about actively
  • 00:22:47
    choosing
  • 00:22:53
    good so let's bring it all
  • 00:22:56
    together zimbardo is the Lucifer for
  • 00:22:58
    effect isn't just a book about the Dark
  • 00:23:00
    Side of human nature it's a call to
  • 00:23:04
    Arms it's a challenge to each of you to
  • 00:23:06
    confront the potential for Evil Within
  • 00:23:08
    yourselves and to make the conscious
  • 00:23:10
    choice to do
  • 00:23:12
    good the situations you find yourself in
  • 00:23:15
    will test you will push you toward that
  • 00:23:18
    line where good and evil
  • 00:23:20
    blur but it's in those moments of
  • 00:23:22
    testing that your true character is
  • 00:23:25
    revealed remember the lessons we've
  • 00:23:27
    uncovered
  • 00:23:29
    that obedience to Authority loss of
  • 00:23:31
    personal responsibility dehumanization
  • 00:23:34
    and the seductive power of euphemistic
  • 00:23:36
    language can all lead you down a dark
  • 00:23:39
    path but also remember that within you
  • 00:23:41
    lies the power to resist to question to
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    act heroically even when the odds are
  • 00:23:46
    stacked against
  • 00:23:48
    you you don't need a cape or superpowers
  • 00:23:51
    to be a hero you just need the courage
  • 00:23:54
    to act to choose the light over the dark
  • 00:23:57
    day in and day out
  • 00:23:59
    and that my friends is what will make
  • 00:24:01
    all the
  • 00:24:08
    difference so here we are at the end of
  • 00:24:10
    our journey through the darkest corners
  • 00:24:12
    of the human psyche Guided by zimbardo's
  • 00:24:14
    unflinching
  • 00:24:16
    eye but let me leave you with this the
  • 00:24:19
    choice between good and evil isn't some
  • 00:24:21
    Grand singular event it's a series of
  • 00:24:24
    small everyday
  • 00:24:26
    decisions every time you stand up for
  • 00:24:28
    what's right every time you resist the
  • 00:24:30
    pull of the crowd every time you
  • 00:24:32
    question authority and choose to see the
  • 00:24:35
    humanity in others you're pushing back
  • 00:24:38
    against the forces that seek to turn you
  • 00:24:40
    into something you're
  • 00:24:42
    not it's not
  • 00:24:44
    easy it's not always
  • 00:24:46
    clear but it's
  • 00:24:49
    necessary because in the end the story
  • 00:24:51
    of your life isn't written by the
  • 00:24:53
    situations you find yourself in it's
  • 00:24:56
    written by how you choose to respond to
  • 00:24:59
    them so Choose
  • 00:25:01
    Wisely be the hero not the
  • 00:25:04
    monster and when you find yourself at
  • 00:25:06
    that moral Crossroads as we all
  • 00:25:08
    inevitably do take a deep breath look
  • 00:25:11
    within and remember the lessons we've
  • 00:25:13
    explored
  • 00:25:14
    today thank you for taking this journey
  • 00:25:17
    with me and until next time keep
  • 00:25:19
    questioning keep striving and keep
  • 00:25:22
    choosing the
  • 00:25:27
    light B
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Tag
  • Morality
  • The Lucifer Effect
  • Philip Zimbardo
  • Stanford Prison Experiment
  • Milgram Experiment
  • Obedience
  • Heroism
  • Dehumanization
  • Personal Accountability
  • Euphemistic Language