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The Roots of Evil is written by Sharon Begley. The article was published in Newsweek Magazine on May 20th, 2001. The article is written to clarify scientists' view on evil and its roots.

We want to label everything. We put everything into boxes and place them high on a shelf for any additional future consideration, but why do we do this?

Psychiatrist Robert I. Simon, director of the program in Psychiatry and Law at Georgetown University School of Medicine says “The capacity for evil is a human universal”. He continues to explain that it varies from insignificant things, to acts of prejudice, to massive evils. Robert I. Simon believes that there’re evil roots within us all.
If Robert’s theory about evil is true, then why does the evil in people only develop in some cases? The evildoers often try to prolong suffering and to deprive satisfaction from it all.  The evildoers lack the capacity for empathy and cannot understand the pain and terror of another human being. An example is Susan Smith who drowned her own sons. She wrote, "I love my children with all my heart, my children deserve to have the best, and now they will." In her mind they would do better without her. Whereas as sociopath know exactly what their victims are feeling and gets a rush of seeing the terror in their eyes.

Acts of evil often comes with dehumanizing the victims. A theory could be that they do it to make it easier to go through with the killings and tortures.

Goldberg states that the seeds of evil are sown early on life. The lawbreakers often come from a perhaps broken home, where love was needed but never given, resulting in them not feeling worthy of love from those they love the most. They get so used to stress that they shut off their emotions. In the end they get so full of underlying self-contempt that their mind tells them: 'I may not be worthy, but neither is anyone else.' Socrates said: “if one knows good and yet commits an act that society calls evil, then that person mistook an evil act for a good one.
You can have people with a normal understanding for empathy, but who brought up in the belief that people of another religion, color or ethnic group are bad. They act on what they’ve been told to think instead of building their opinions and views on the world around them. Socrates said: “if one knows good and yet commits an act that society calls evil, then that person mistook an evil act for a good one. Again: it’s all about what you’ve been taught

An experiment made by Stanley Milgrim showed that an ordinary person's obedience to an authority is much greater than man himself think in relation to the person's own free will and conscience. Each participant took the role of a "teacher" who would deliver a shock to the "student" every time an incorrect answer was given. The participant believed he was delivering shocks to the student, but actually the student simply pretended to be shocked.

So why do we label each other? We’re labeling each other to find out where our fellow human beings are in their minds, but more importantly, where we label each other to make sure we’re not in the same box as them.

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