You Can't Go Nude in a Restaurant

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For every person not vaccinated, they are a danger to everybody else. We always have this in societies that are very individualistic and yet people are accustomed to collective action problems. The two examples i give is wearing seat belts and wearing helmets. You want to make something which was unusual, putting a seat belt on, it's automatic. Habit is an action you take without thinking. So you shouldn't have to think, should i on should i put my helmet on? And then, and that's i have a society where people develop habits, thatae, that are good for themselves,. But also are good for arecooperative habits, good for good for the rest of society.

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.