Is It Possible That Any of Us Were Moral Monsters?

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Is it possible that anybody could be notes, that any of us had that potential? That in most of the notsy party members who ended up going down this pathway, we're not moral monsters. They were regular people. So to what extent does the environent an the environmento think stanley millgrim, ors embardo, or whateverte social psychologists looked for environmental cues that push people towards bad behavior ? Or was there some other aberration going on there? Your thoughts on that? Its a great question. As you know, there was, there's been a long standing debate about that among historians,. where some people adopt milgrim's view that the noses, most

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