Good and evil - Topics

Do children learn good and evil from stories before they learn it from rules? Why do we need a villain to make sense of a tragedy? How ordinary people take part in atrocities without feeling like monsters Is evil a thing in itself or only the absence of good? Arendt's banality of evil and the critics who saw a believer in Eichmann Does evil need an explanation or does explaining it start to excuse it? Can a whole nation be evil or only the people who acted? Ordinary Men: the police battalion that shot civilians and went drinking Are there truly evil people or only people who do evil things? Is there a difference between doing evil and letting evil happen? Why some people hid Jews and others informed on them on the same street Is evil a thing in itself or the absence of something Milgram's obedience experiments and what the 2009 archival review changed If free will is an illusion should punishment change? Does calling something evil end the argument instead of settling it? Zimbardo's prison study and the recordings that undid its conclusions The office bully is not a monster in the other rooms of his life The neighbor who is gentle at home and vicious online Is the line between good and evil drawn the same way in every culture? The banality of heroism: people intervene because they were taught to Is it possible to do evil while sincerely believing you are doing good? Moral disengagement: the eight tricks that make cruelty acceptable What years of doing wrong does to a person's sense of right Should we hate the evildoer or only the deed?