Human nature is good and evil, the environment is the catalyst

Wallace 2022-03-22 09:01:51

Once I listened to two guys chatting, one was eight and the other was eighteen.

The eight-year-old brother was bullied at school, and he came back and said to his eighteen-year-old brother, "The little boy bullied me today. I reasoned with him. I said you have no right to hit me!" The brother smiled and touched his brother affectionately. He said, "Baby, when we are bullied, we can't just reason with people. Reason can't solve the problem. We should use our fists." After saying this, the elder brother waved his powerful fists like, and then said: "This way , your little friend will not bully you." The younger brother nodded his head slightly, and opened his big clear eyes.

Many times we will protect ourselves in this way of using violence to control violence, but in fact, what kind of people will we become. We don't know. A person's growth will have many factors appearing at the same time, rubbing together, the environment, family, society, and what one wants to be, controllable and uncontrollable. In this process, we have different social positions and produce different social roles, so we cannot fully understand ourselves and cannot fully recognize ourselves.

"Three Characters Classic" says that "at the beginning of human beings, their nature is good", and people are born with kindness. Xunzi in the Warring States period said that human nature is inherently evil. What is good and what is evil? Oh, didn't the Legalists say that good and evil are in one thought, so this thing has something to do with personal cognition, so there is this movie I will introduce next - "Death Game", this film Based on the 1971 American "Stanford Prison Experiment", adapted from Mario Jordanou's novel "Black Box", a German film.

An experiment at a university in a psychological study of the human influence on authority and the behavior of the supervised, two groups of volunteers, from all walks of life. Suppose a closed environment - a prison. A group of guards and a group of prisoners. Set rules (PS: there are always rules ^^), simulate prison order, and prison guards are not allowed to use violence. The story is full of countless changes and shocks, as prisoners and prison guards quickly adapt to their roles, step by step beyond preset boundaries, leading to dangerous and psychologically damaging situations. (Ps: It is, in my opinion, the prison guards enter the state faster and faster. I think this is a kind of power-based superiority, which is a potential factor for the confusion in the end. They are too involved in the drama to Lost.) Ultimately, the experiment boss was warned about the growing prevalence of anti-social behavior in the subject and terminated the entire experiment prematurely. That is to say, the experiment proves that human nature is inherently evil of Xunzi.

In fact, in reality, we are not the guinea pigs in these laboratories. We are also happy, ridiculed, angry and lost, but more like most of the followers in the movie, it is a state of numbness. , the central purpose is as long as you finally give me the experiment ¥, in short, this is a GAME. In any case, the game will be OVER. It’s just that there’s no way to escape from reality. One item is sent and another comes back. Haha, whether it’s good or evil, the important thing is that you don’t deviate from the track. As long as it doesn’t violate social rules, everything is correct.



PS: Douyou said that there is a band called "Stanford Prison Experiment" that has released several albums. I can't find their online, I don't know what the style is, and it seems that there are as many as 2 novels. It seems that the impact of this experiment is really big~

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    Nachrichtensprecher: [voiceover - spoiler] The tragic outcome: two dead, three injured, among them project leader Professor Klaus Thon. Clearly, the experiment went out of control after two days. The district attorney is investigating two possible manslaughter charges and several charges of abuse and negligence. One of the test participants has been arrested. The project direction will probably have to answer to a court. According to statements by one of the scientists, the escalation might have been prevented by aborting the experiment earlier.

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