Evil vs Authority

Evil

What is the definition of evil? The direct definition of evil is profoundly immoral or wicked or extremely unpleasant. Wrongdoing has been profound in the history of human kind. That is the key difference between humans and animals. For example, animals kill for nature. They need to kill for survival for life. For human’s it is completely different. Humans sometimes kill for food but in human nature we have reached to a point where majority of the world’s population do not need to hunt to eat. We have reached a point of where we can walk into a store and get varieties of foods, drinks and the rest. That’s not important though. That is just a little idea of how we don’t need meat.

Evil is intentionally hurting or harming someone without purpose. That is intentionally kicking a friend because you felt like it. That is killing an animal without reason neither ideas to eat the animal. So what are we? Why don’t we act like other creatures. Animals act in their nature so does that mean that us humans and murder is a big part of our nature. Were we born to kill? Or a we just trying to be better? This is exactly the ideas that Golding had on the book lord of the flies where a bunch of boys from around the 60s ended up crashing onto an island trying to escape from a war and as they tried to survive on the island. Majority of the boys became controlling, cruel, evil. They picked on the weakest and ended up killing them also. Bearing in mind these young boys were no older than 12.

Maybe society and technology is stopping us from showing our true nature. Maybe we are all just evil inside and layers and layer of leaders and love and society is covering up our true nature. Our reality. There was an experiment in the 70s where it was meant to last for 2 weeks which had to be stopped by 6 days and it was a bunch of students who were separated into 2 groups the guards and prisoners and still today this is very controvertial. The guards instantly and throughout the 6 days were mistreating the “prisoners and being increadibly harsh on them. Which brings me to my next idea “authority”.

Most of our influences come from who is leading us. Who is in power and what are they telling us? We are always given a book of laws and told to follow them and if we refuse we get punishments. This makes you really start to think. Right now there is probably nowhere on earth without the simple rules. Do not kill ect. If you are told certain rules since the day we were born is there any other way to live. Even though we don’t realise it we are built on fear. We are told not to do this and that and if we refuse to listen we are criminalised and given a punishment. No way am I saying that these laws and rules are not good but lets say that all the laws of your country would be refused straight away. Lets say there was no authority giving us ideas and laws what would happen? Would there just be chaos and danger?

I strongly believe that humans are born evil and society and life in general makes us good or evil. I have two examples from history and these were both during the same period of time. The first was Nazi Germany. The first thing is nearly all of the German men and women never said anything about the Jewish community and some ratted out the people who were helping the Jewish. How did Hitler make all the people from Germany hate Jews. How did they make all the people of Germany hate communists. How? The one question is how could no one say anything or were people too tired and too hungry and too weak to say hang on this is not okay. This is wrong. To fully understand this you need to understand that Hitler ruled with fear. He killed and destroyed those who refused to comply with his rules.

However if we remove that factor of cruelty then we realise that if all the people in Germany stood up for their minorities then the holocaust might not have happened.

You can understand this ideology from an experiment a teacher carried out around the 60s. This was where she separated the class into 2. For people with blue eyes and those with brown eyes. Then the teacher told the students with blue eyes that they were better that the students with brown eyes. Straight after the one’s with the blue eyes picked on the children with the brown eyes and also refused to sit with them during lunch hours. These were impressionable children. They listened to authority and straight after began to mistreat the brown eyed children just because someone told them that they were as valued.

This makes you realise that maybe someone who is influencial and strongly respected needs to tell you that this is wrong and this is right for someone to listen and actually follow up the requests. We are what we are told to be. There is no such thing a unique because we are always influenced by something or someone. Which brings we back to evil. Maybe to be evil you need to be born evil and also need to be told to be evil. Maybe a part of your brain needs to be activated for you to be evil but if you are loved and cared for maybe that part of your brain won’t activate and you’ll be just fine.

That leaves me with a question for each and every one of you to think of.

What about women? A staggering 80% of more men are the killer and the rest is women?

Why are women less likely to be evil?

Is it nurture or nature?

But that’s another story to tell.