It is not circumstances that make people evil.
Kind people don't do evil, just like putting down their glasses and returning to their own children in movies.
But as an experiment with a larger meaning, human nature and the senses of normal secular ethics, that is, "common sense human nature" can be easily defeated by "high pressure settings".
When "human nature" is overwhelmed, the boundaries between good and evil are blurred, and we no longer have the subjective thinking of human nature, and are more like machines to execute orders. The loss of principle is self-protection on the one hand, and spiritual safety zone on the other hand .
It is not "people" who do evil, but "environments" who do evil.
I think if this experiment is to prove that human nature is inherently evil, it will be unsuccessful.
But he proved that people can easily create a killing field with their own wisdom, an ethical whirlpool that is more real than ordinary drama.
Today, events in Paris have brought an ethnic group to the forefront.
Do you believe in God, is God merciful?
What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not o vercome it. "John 1-4,5"
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