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By: Save Our Species » Good and Evil, Choice and Responsibility

Save Our Species » Good and Evil, Choice and Responsibility — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:05:11 +0000

[...] The Shadow of Human Nature by cordieb [...]

By: Duma Key

Duma Key — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:54:16 +0000

Great blog, spins of much to think of. This shadow that exists manifests in many ways and a part of human nature I fail to understand, this need almost desire to see another suffer, to hold some control. It brings to mind Lord of the Flies and place into a harsh new reality.

By: Good and Evil, Choice and Responsibility « Save Our Species - S.O.S.

Good and Evil, Choice and Responsibility « Save Our Species - S.O.S. — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:55:42 +0000

[...] The Shadow of Human Nature by cordieb [...]

By: angryafrican

angryafrican — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:27:56 +0000

Disturbing. But so true. People will do horrible things. And people will watch. No one is immune. No one.

By: Visionary

Visionary — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:04:29 +0000

You are stirring the Visionary in all of us Cordie. Thank you for a great post and some very insightful comments.

I studied this experiment several years ago as part of my investigation into human nature and human potential.

What surprises me most about this experiment and what happened in WWII is not what people ended up doing to other human beings but that given the violent and horrific history of our species, we are still surprised when we are confronted by evidence of our own capacity for unspeakable acts of cruelty.

Civilisation is a very thin veneer upon deep layers of instinct which drive us to selfish acts of barbarism and and cruelty. When our comfort is threatened we see very quickly what human beings are really like beneath the surface.

It is the unwillingness to look into our own shadows and take responsibility for our capacity for cruelty that sets our shadow side free to prowl unguarded.

This is so tightly bound up with what Save Our Species was created to deal with that I am going to write a Post in reply to this article.

Love V

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Weekly Fruit Salad ~ ???? ????? ???? « SanityFound’s Rambling’s — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:57:31 +0000

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By: Sorrow

Sorrow — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:37:11 +0000

this reminds me of the experiments they did after WW2 trying to figure out how so many people looked the other way during the holocaust.
It was the ability to ascribe blame else where. The darkest parts of our being ..
there is a devil that i do not doubt.
But is wanting in me? or just plain wanting out?
a nursery Rhyme from my childhood that always make me pause.
a wonderful and thought provoking post.
makes you look with in.
could i ?
would i?

By: cordieb

cordieb — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:08:31 +0000

@Paisley. I read the poem; and it is very true. Most people do not believe they have a dark side. I’ve seen mine and it is not pretty. But I think in knowing my dark side, I abe to recognize it and control it. PLL, C

@Amber. It is quite sickening – but strangely it is something that lies in human nature. According to research; this would happen to the average person no matter how sane they normally are. It is the dark mystery of human behavior behind such attrocities as those stated above, slavery and the holocost. PLL, C

@SanityFound. You know i don’t mind. . . . don’t know why you felt you need to ask? Although, I don’t believe we are inherintly evil. I do believe we have the capacity for both evil and goodness. Mwah . . . PLL C

By: SanityFound

SanityFound — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:35:08 +0000

Strangely enough I have been writing a post for a week now on inherent evil… think I might link back to here when I finally finish it, hope you don’t mind Mwah!

By: Amber

Amber — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:13:51 +0000

That makes me absolutely sick. Honest. It makes me lose hope for mankind.

Have you ever seen the movie “The Terminal”? It wasn’t sadistic, but I had to sit and wonder how it was that people could be so down right evil to one another… just because.