There are many situations in which one may not consider it “evil” because one did not think he or she did anything wrong; however, it depends on how the victim views the situation. One night, my friends and I decided that we should work on a chemistry lab report together. Someone in my friend’s lab class asked for help, so my friend, Bob, went to go talk to him outside of our hall. One guy in my group suggested that we should lock Bob out, and so we did. Bob did not realize that he was locked out until after he was done speaking with the guy from his lab class. He began knocking on the door and looked at us through the window in Pentland, a resident building in the University of California Riverside. When most of us turned around to look at him, a girl in my group screamed “you’re not supposed to look at him.” This caused all of us to look away and to continue our mini conversations. At first Bob thought we were messing around with him, but because of what the girl yelled, he knew we were not going to open the door any time soon. This obviously upset Bob, specifically because it lasted way longer than it should of and he was outside alone for a lengthy amount of time. Bob was not let in until I questioned why he was still outside. Barely anyone in my group felt bad until Bob walked in and gave us the silent treatment for a very long time. This situation had many mini acts of evil in my perspective. There was nothing that I would consider complete and absolute evil, but there were signs of sadism, authority-oriented behavior and possibly a foot-in-the-door experience. A combination of all three could lead to a miserable experience towards the victim. In terms of sadism, it seemed as though my friends had “absolute or unrestricte... ... middle of paper ... ...s possible that this was morally acceptable due to the aftermath of the whole group feeling bad, most likely after reflection; however, this was only until after Bob showed signs of anger and frustration by giving the silent treatment. This makes it seem like it was a forced reflection, in which the group did not think badly of the incident until it affected them individually. Bob giving the silent treatment most likely made everyone feel uncomfortable and this led to the room going silent, this perhaps made others realize their wrongdoing. This form of “reflection” does not really seem natural. Overall, in terms of Mengzi, I do not think that this incident would be considered as absolutely evil, but rather just morally detrimental due to the fact that there was some sort of reflection. It is just that the way the reflection began was not the way it should have been.
When we see these types of stories we are usually on the person wanting revenges side, for example a woman whose child was tragically assaulted by an unidentified male and her seeking revenge.
Claudia Card begins by questioning the difference between wrong and evil. How do we know when something crosses the line between being just wrong, to being an evil act? How does hatred and motive play a part in this? How can people psychologically maintain a sense of who they are when they have been the victims of evil? Card attempts to explain these fundamental questions using her theory of evil; the Atrocity Paradigm (Card, pg.3).
Evil can be a difficult thing to speak on, as it makes people uncomfortable. There is inherent evil in everyone, and Philip Zimbardo presents a compelling and frighteningly true case showing this. Zimbardo is the psychologist who headed the controversial Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971, and was also an expert witness at Abu Ghraib. He has a book out called The Lucifer Effect, which explores the evil’s of the human mind, and how people will change when put into the right (or wrong) situations. Needless to say, Zimbardo is more than qualified to seriously explain the evils of the human mind.
The problem of evil has been categorized variously, but the major categorizations of evil entail the physical evil on the one hand, and the moral evil, on the other hand. Physical evil has been defined as the occurrence of a physical suffering and destruction that is caused by the operation of natural laws, with no involvement of the human intention in the occurrence of such events (Kremer and Latzer, 89). On the other hand, moral evil has been defined as the occurrence of events that violates the natural laws, for which humans are responsible (Kremer and Latzer, 89). In this respect, while in the physical evil there is no participation of humans, the moral evil is contributed by the involvement of the personal will and intellect in doing what naturally should not be done, or what is simply considered morally wrong.
This is one of the many stories I found in the newspaper that portrays evil in today’s society.
treating them as they treated the victim for reasons that did not require brutal force, but in
Evil is to be morally wrong, bad, wicked, and a whole bunch of other synonyms that all boil into one pot. There is so much to this word that it’s almost impossible to pinpoint someone as truly evil. To be evil for no other reason than to be evil would be the worst possible evil. Adolf Hitler and Osoma bin Laden believe the evil they committed was justified by God, or some higher power. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, from the play by Shakespeare, were not evil because they wanted to be, they did it for a greater good.
In the movie “The Murder Of Emmett Till”, there was a 14 year old boy that got dragged out of his house, beat to death, and thrown in a river all because he whistled at a white women. This is being prejudice, the word prejudice means(opinion that is not based on reason or actually experience). Many other evil things happened back in the 1900’s. A person can experience evil without becoming evil because someone won’t always do evil things just because they have experienced evil.
Humans commit many acts of evil towards each other. Some well-known examples are Hitler killing the Jews during the Holocaust, spouse abusers, and infamous serial killers, like John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy. Another example is Satan worshippers in Russia stabbing four teenagers 666 times and then proceeded to eat them (Haywood 1). Another example is a woman and her boyfriend beating her 1-year-old son with belts...
What drives people to act in an improper way, is not evil, but rather a lack of empathy hardwired into their brain. When a
In the novel, The Gathering, the theme good and evil and how it can be aggressive, abusive and violent is explored and developed. It is shown, that even though people are evil in this story, there are different colours and forms of evil. The way one person shows evil, could be completely different to another person and the extent of the evilness vary. For example, Buddha and his bullies are not as evil as Seth’s father and Mr. Karle. Seth’s father and Mr. Karle lead every other follower of evil and show them how to be evil. Buddha and his bully followers are only following the evil and treating people how they are being shown to treat them. Buddha intimidates Nathanial on his first day because he is weak and doesn’t fit in. Mr. Karle however calls Nathanial’s mother and “lies” to her telling that he believes that Nathanial is rude and disruptive in class and that he got a detention for this.
Evil can be a scary thing many things can influence on why a person may be considered evil or do evil things.People do things because they were influenced by others or by their own selfish desires,
“Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.”-Emo Philips. When you have a specific situation such as a person having an evil thought in mind, revenge , or domestic violence you never know what may happen. During specific times you have to defend yourself based on another person’s intentions. For example, when you have a domestic violence call the victim is usually an unarmed woman trying to defend herself until the cops come. But if times come to it she (or someone being domestically violated) will have to hurt someone just in case to get out of a serious situation.
...ly or mentally, a conscious effort to injure others that is no obvious benefit to the human race is not good. I believe that people try to do good most of the time. For example, the person had a motorcycle accident. He hated by a car on the local road and stocked under the car. The car was flamed. This news is from the yesterday of FOX25. When I saw many people stopped and together to get the car off the person and being without thinking about the flames, I am so grateful. The man was saved and no life injury and the story have a good ending. Accordingly, people are innately good. I think I am actually a good person. I like to open doors, push in chairs, listen to people, and help little kids. No meter outside the world how changed it doesn’t influence my good personality at all. I agree Carl Rogers’s theory people should be capable of becoming conscious good.
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