TED 2008: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib

"People are always personally accountable for their behavior. If they kill, they are accountable. However, what I'm saying is that if the killing can be shown to be a product of the influence of a powerful situation within a powerful system, then it's as if they are experiencing diminished capacity and have lost their free will or their full reasoning capacity." Full Story »

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Oh Urs
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by Oh Urs - Oct. 1, 2008

Intersting defense take ("diminished capacity and have lost their free will"), but overall a somewhat weak interview.

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