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**NKUDirectory** · 05-18-2012, 11:24 AM

Well, the Stanford Prison experiment as well as the Milgram experiment show us, that it takes little to get "normal" people to do evil.

It just takes the positive acceptance of "evil deeds" in your peer group (i.e. getting reinforcing feedback when you do things that normally would be considered evil) and of course superiors that order you to do things that can be considered to be evil.

A thing in which communism and religion aren´t far apart...
peer group that might give you positive feedback for doing bad things:
Radical Brothers in faith (that condone atrocities against infidels) or fellow crusaders / inquisitors for religions
vs. comrades in party and/or red army for communism.

Superiors who could/would order you to commit atrocities/do bad things:
Preachers of your religions / higher ups within the church hierarchy (religion) vs.
Commanders within the read army/the "beloved leader" himself/higher ups within the party (Communism)

Not to forget that both, religion as well as communism often have a strong cult regarding a leader figure ...
be it the "beloved leader" (like Stalin, Castro or one of the north Korean Kims)
or one of the prophets/founders (or highest ranking still living preachers) of the religion
to which the ordinary believer/follower builds up a high affection (and therefore is very eager to place lots of thrust into this figure [and also very eager to give up thinking as soon as he gets orders that are giving by this leader figure (either directly or via lower ranking mediators)])

05-18-2012, 11:24 AM	#17
NKUDirectory Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 597 Senior Member	Well, the Stanford Prison experiment as well as the Milgram experiment show us, that it takes little to get "normal" people to do evil. It just takes the positive acceptance of "evil deeds" in your peer group (i.e. getting reinforcing feedback when you do things that normally would be considered evil) and of course superiors that order you to do things that can be considered to be evil. A thing in which communism and religion aren´t far apart... peer group that might give you positive feedback for doing bad things: Radical Brothers in faith (that condone atrocities against infidels) or fellow crusaders / inquisitors for religions vs. comrades in party and/or red army for communism. Superiors who could/would order you to commit atrocities/do bad things: Preachers of your religions / higher ups within the church hierarchy (religion) vs. Commanders within the read army/the "beloved leader" himself/higher ups within the party (Communism) Not to forget that both, religion as well as communism often have a strong cult regarding a leader figure ... be it the "beloved leader" (like Stalin, Castro or one of the north Korean Kims) or one of the prophets/founders (or highest ranking still living preachers) of the religion to which the ordinary believer/follower builds up a high affection (and therefore is very eager to place lots of thrust into this figure [and also very eager to give up thinking as soon as he gets orders that are giving by this leader figure (either directly or via lower ranking mediators)])
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