We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality … - Philip Zimbardo

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Philip Zimbardo

We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed into neutral. When that happens, morality is disengaged. If the car happens to be on an incline, car and driver move precipitously downhill. It is then the nature of the circumstances that determines outcomes, not the driver's skills or intentions.

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We all like to think that the line between good and evil is impermeable--that people who do terrible things, such as commit murder, treason, or kidnapping, are on the evil side of this line, and the rest of us could never cross it. But the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram studies revealed the permeability of that line. Some people are on the good side only because situations have never coerced or seduced them to cross over.

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who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

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The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

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If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.

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If you want to change a person, you've got to change the situation.

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