Evil
Evil, a word that has always been associated with the soul or entity of a person, now in modern days scientist are questioning if it is connected to the brain, if it is just a chemical reaction made by our body. The video with the purpose of explain this idea shows four examples: an experiment that is done, now to regular people to see which parts of the brain operate in different situations a psychological study in a university, the problematic situation that the war in Congo is provoking and the baptism of a person who mutilated and killed 17 persons. The idea of evil coming from the brain suggests that humans are set to be evil but that they can be evil depending in the case and situation.
Every person has different moral structure so their scale of right and wrong is different of the others, also some people would to sacrifice more or less for different things. Depending on the matter and the situation our brain acts differently. The first experiment is trying to analyze all the different answers that people can do and the part of the brain that they used. In the video two volunteers were asked question that were connected to their moral scales and to their conception of what is right and what is wrong. In the one of the examples a man was asked if he will stop and bring a woman, who had just been knifed, to the hospital. The man said yes but the scientist say that even though almost everyone would have stopped and brought that person to a hospital if the situation changed and if that person was in another part of the world and the help that the person had to provide was indirect he would let the person die. If a person could help another in Congo indirectly the person would be more reluctant to help.
The civil war in Congo has taken many lives since it started. Also it has provoked many people leave their homes and everything they own. Many people have moved to refugee camp. The state soldiers had received orders from their commanders to move these people to refugee camps. The soldiers are abusing of their power and killing and violating many civilians. The soldiers who had provably been poor to are now using their power to feel better and as a escape goat for all their sadness. In this case again this situation is making the soldiers evil and making them behave against other whom not a long ago were their equals.
The head of the psychological department of a university designed a experiment to see if humans who had never been evil if there is a situation change the humans can become evil. University volunteer students were used in the experiment as guards and prisoners. The classes were set as a prison. The head of the psychological department created a fake prison to see how the fake guards would when they had power. After 2 days the fake prisoners rebelled. The guards stopped the rebellion and started to degrade and torture the prisoners in order to humiliate them. The power had made the guards evil. The head of the department was the superintendent the fake prison. After some days he realized the he also had become evil and he did not really wanted to stop the experiment. The experiment was stopped when another psychologist made the fake superintendent realize this.
A man that killed 17 people and mutilated them had asked the church for forgiveness- All his sins trouble him and that he is very sorry about all of them. He wants to be forgiven by god to be free of all his errors so he can rest in peace. A reverend of the church is asked to do this sacrament. Many people tried to persuade him of not doing this. He objects that humans have mistakes that in different situations people react differently. But above all of these reasons his opinion is that God forgives all of the persons who are sorry for their sins. Everyone had sin in his life maybe ones more than others but everyone deserves to be forgiven.
Evil is a created in ones mind and depends of many factors: situation, education… With concrete combination of all this factors many people can be evil in a more or less quantity. It is clearly impossible to eradicate evil from the world. Everyone be evil at certain times. Even though evil can not be completely eradicated if people, mostly when they are children, are treated well and with love the people would act the same way giving this love to other and by that making less the chances of situations that provoke evil.
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