Because of a friend's recommendation, I watched this movie with the question of exploring the good and evil of human nature. I originally thought that the bottom layer of psychology was medicine. After reading it, I realized that this is medicine. It is clearly philosophy. And after watching the movie, I looked out the window in the cloudy and rainy days of Wuhan for more than a month, and I felt that I was depressed.
The topic of whether human nature is inherently good or inherently evil has always been a topic of philosophical discussion, and its practical value is particularly evident in the formulation of national legal frameworks. For example, the civil law systems of China, Germany, and Japan are formulated based on the inherent evil of human nature, while the United States, Britain, India It is based on the belief that human nature is inherently good.
Looking at the comments, many people have said that sensitive issues such as current social reality and national systems are not listed here. What I want to say is that in fact, the good and evil of individuals are not that important, and the evil of the group is the most harmful to the society. exist. There are some mass tragedies that have already occurred. When looking for the source afterward, the perpetrator cannot even be found. For example, the ethnic conflict caused by the partition of India and Pakistan, and the Rwanda genocide, all of which happened in the past 100 years. More than 100 people died. In a 10,000-level catastrophe, there is no obvious organizer, no system or organization, and the people "spontaneously" complete the extermination of another ethnic group in a specific environment.
Many people are pessimistic about real life because they see a lot of the dark side of human nature, but I don't agree, because after all, this is an experiment, a psychological experiment completed in a specific environment, excluding many necessary factors , such as acquaintance society. Just like the rural society in ancient China, in the villages beyond the reach of national laws, it is the elders of the clan ancestral halls who maintain social order.
Mass evil is like a mudslide, raging public opinion, engulfing people who cannot think independently, using the "excuse" of violence and rationalization, the destructive power is gradually strengthened, and finally breaks out of the breach and destroys everything along the way. die"!
After watching the movie, I am not worried about the result of human nature being evil. Instead, I used some operable things in this experiment, and I worried that it would be used by some controlling entrepreneurs. After all, in modern society, the company The microenvironment is the closest to the prison model. Depersonalization, repetitive actions, abuse of power, and rationalization of "violence" can all find suitable soil in the company. In my opinion, many of the so-called "successful" development training is the stereotype of this "prison". I hope the bosses who watch this movie believe that human nature is inherently good.
The prison in the movie ends early, but in real life, prisons are everywhere. In the name of love, under the pretext of being good for you, they unconsciously abuse lovers, children, and subordinates without knowing it. There are still a lot of them.
The topic of human nature is inherently good and human nature is inherently evil may never be answered, but if you are in "Stanford Prison", don't forget that you have the right to choose to escape.
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