Is There a Higher Order?

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You do ultimately hold people accountable, morally, culpable for their actions? Ah, including letssay deri choven or or a, you know, the people involved in abu grabe, or whatever. So how do how do you square those two? Yes, i think en the situation helps explain why good people do bad things. It doesn't excuse those people from being responsible and guilty for the bad things. But so again, i guess we always have to say, there's a higher order, not not a god given order, not heaven, but there is a moral. There is a moral, a level of morality, a within should be within every every nation,

August 15 marks the 50th anniversary of day one of the Stanford Prison Experiment — one of the most controversial studies in the history of social psychology. In this conversation, Michael Shermer speaks with renowned social psychologist and creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment Philip Zimbardo, exploring the mechanisms that make good people do bad things, how moral people can be seduced into acting immorally, and what this says about the line separating good from evil. His book, The Lucifer Effect, explains why we are all susceptible to the lure of “the dark side.” and how situational forces and group dynamics can work in concert to make monsters out of decent men and women. Shermer and Zimbardo discuss: Zimbardo’s life mission to understand the nature of evil, the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) and its critics, the nature of human nature, The Dark Triad that leads to violence, obedience to authority, free will/determinism, and how we can teach ourselves to act heroically.