I don't believe there is such a thing as good or evil. Everyone is capable of anything put in a certain circumstance

Yes if you tortue them to get info that doesnt exist!!!

Lamont austin
Tucson Az

I believe the Stanely Milgram experiments at Yale are more effective demonstrations of the same human vulnerability toward evil. There the majority of people willingly administered severe electric to subjects when instructed to by authority figures. (Fortunately the shocks were faked.) The Milgram experiement is not vulnerable to playacting like this one is, for all its dramatic impact.

I would also urge you to consult journalist Rush Dozier's 2003 book, Why We Hate, exploring the neuroscience underlying our inhumanity to each other.

Harvard's Richard Wrangham studied under Jane Goodall and has probably done more than anyone else studying and comparing chimpanzee and human warfare. Check out his 1997 book with Dale Peterson

Yes! I believe that if Your enviroment is EVIL you will eventually become EVIl. How long do you have to pretend to be something Before you BECOME it?

The answer to your question is yes, good people can all too easily become evil. We are all biologically programmed with a tendency to demonize and dehumanize those we perceive of as outsiders or enemies. It is part of our biological heritage as a social species. Both chimp and human groups with war over territitory with other groups of their own kind and wipe each other out – genocide. Becoming civilized means understanding and overcoming this tendency within ourselves, but as the Milgram experiments show in a truly frightening way, it is not nearly as easy as you would think.

I would believe that good people can become evil, based on the person. I believe that the way a person handles a situation determines whether a persons personality can change. Many people who are susceptible to following in the foot steps of others tend to be the people who change there personalities often. Not to say that strong minded individuals can not be evil but it would be a lot harder to change a strong minded person rather that a follower.

Human beings can be capable of anything. Never underestimate the power of the situation. I find the whole subject fascinating and think Zimbardo would be an interesting guest to have on the show. Besides the Stanford experiment, more recently he wrote a book on this subject titled "The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil."

I find people the most difficult creatures to communicate with,should I consider myself strange? Indeed, I sense sight alone,with ample distance as my greatest defense. Man has a litany of passive,and agressive personas. Deep inside our sub-conscious which build,and manifest our very character throughout life.The litmus test for people to become evil is predicated on the circumstanses of our survival instincts,without thought of questionable morality! It is self-evident in our sordid past regarding the treatment of prisoners as sub-human beings deserving of all punishment! Sad,but true,...

Every person have control over their mind, being influenced from your environment is another matter.

Yes, good people can be evil. How else do you explain the rise of Nazi Germany or Fascist Spain?

Even though the German people, knew about the concentration camps in their backyards, the vast majority did nothing to stop the slaughter of innocent Jews, even some Christians, Gypsies and Gays.

Yes, sadly there is good and evil in this world.