Analysis Of The Lucifer Effect

The question that the Lucifer Effect book as us is what makes good people do bad things? Zimbardo explains how and why we are all susceptible to the lure of “the dark side.” Getting history from his researches Zimbardo conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment and detail how situational forces and group dynamics can work in concert to make monsters out of decent men and women. The book highlights and summarizes the way individuals can resist the temptation to give into evil from the prisoner abuse and torture in Abu Ghraib to organized genocide.
Before reading this book I wasn’t interested in it and seeing the name of the book. When I saw Lucifer written in bold letter I was like oh no am I going to read about gothic, evilness, the devil.

There are consequences for each individual’s action but in Zimbardo perspective there was only one that was similar to Kant’s theory on Categorical Imperative. Zimbardo theory is more similar to Aristotle over yes they should face the consequences but we have to examined on what that individual did before we punish them look at the environment they were in. In other word Aristotle emphasizes that people were not naturally good or bad. People simply exhibited different characters, depending on what their habits of behavior were (p.52) I can say this about Zimbardo people can have courage, firmness and not be good. In order for someone to be morally good they have good will.
Zimbardo conducted the Stanford Experiment he uses few college students to play a role a prison guards and an inmates and the inmates was forced to obey every command that the prison guards tells them in a mock prison environment. As I am reading about the experiment I was astonished that Zimbardo just sat there and watch everything that was going on in the experiment when the prison guards refusing the inmates to use the bathroom and making them perform humiliating and degrading acts and he did do nothing to stop that