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Are Monsters Created or Discovered?
A standing question is, are monsters created? Meaning, can something or someone whom was originally good turn into a beast and become something different than before? Or, are monsters discovered, implying that every monster has always been evil inside they just disguised it until one day the grudge within broke free. Well, according to the Stanford prison experiment in 1971, monsters are created, not discovered.
Stanford Prison Experiment
In the Stanford prison experiment average, kind people were asked to act as a guard to fake prisoners and they all turned seemingly evil and became monsters by treating the prisoners inhumanely. Thus, this experiment implies that under the right circumstances of having authority, and being in a fertile setting for evil to emerge, such as a prison, the nicest person can turn evil, hence become a "monster." However this does not mean the people acting as prison guards are evil and always have been, it just means that under the right circumstances a monster of a person can be created.
Our Monsters Ourselves
Yet there is a fine line when it comes to becoming a monster and turning evil, and just making a mistake. In the article "Our Monsters Ourselves" by Timothy K. Beal, he describes how monsters portrayed on the movie screen can have a deeper effect on people.
"Our monsters reveal the edges of secure knowledge, the limits of conscious reach, the boundaries of human expansion" (Beal). This quote written by Timothy Beal explains how viewing fake monsters from movies leads to the topic of how far people are willing to go before crossing the line of evil and creating a monster of themselves.
The Lucifer Effect
This quote is what draws the line between good and evil and states that the unknown is evil; that leaving conscience reach is what creates a monster and the Lucifer effect takes place, when a normally and good person becomes evil. Just like the prison guards in the Stanford experiment or people in any situation that is an opportunity for evil; they leave their boundaries and go into a downward spiral of evil and the Lucifer effect takes place on them without even their knowledge of it happening.
Link to Stanford Experiment:
http://www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/spe.jpg
Photo:
https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/file2/publication/article/SAAMAG/40741/live/IMG
Link to "Our Monsters Ourselves":
http://www.timothybeal.com/Beal-OurMonstersOurselves-CHE.pdf
The Lucifer Effect:
http://www.lucifereffect.com/lucifer.htm
A standing question is, are monsters created? Meaning, can something or someone whom was originally good turn into a beast and become something different than before? Or, are monsters discovered, implying that every monster has always been evil inside they just disguised it until one day the grudge within broke free. Well, according to the Stanford prison experiment in 1971, monsters are created, not discovered.
Stanford Prison Experiment
In the Stanford prison experiment average, kind people were asked to act as a guard to fake prisoners and they all turned seemingly evil and became monsters by treating the prisoners inhumanely. Thus, this experiment implies that under the right circumstances of having authority, and being in a fertile setting for evil to emerge, such as a prison, the nicest person can turn evil, hence become a "monster." However this does not mean the people acting as prison guards are evil and always have been, it just means that under the right circumstances a monster of a person can be created.
Our Monsters Ourselves
Yet there is a fine line when it comes to becoming a monster and turning evil, and just making a mistake. In the article "Our Monsters Ourselves" by Timothy K. Beal, he describes how monsters portrayed on the movie screen can have a deeper effect on people.
"Our monsters reveal the edges of secure knowledge, the limits of conscious reach, the boundaries of human expansion" (Beal). This quote written by Timothy Beal explains how viewing fake monsters from movies leads to the topic of how far people are willing to go before crossing the line of evil and creating a monster of themselves.
The Lucifer Effect
This quote is what draws the line between good and evil and states that the unknown is evil; that leaving conscience reach is what creates a monster and the Lucifer effect takes place, when a normally and good person becomes evil. Just like the prison guards in the Stanford experiment or people in any situation that is an opportunity for evil; they leave their boundaries and go into a downward spiral of evil and the Lucifer effect takes place on them without even their knowledge of it happening.
Link to Stanford Experiment:
http://www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/spe.jpg
Photo:
https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/file2/publication/article/SAAMAG/40741/live/IMG
Link to "Our Monsters Ourselves":
http://www.timothybeal.com/Beal-OurMonstersOurselves-CHE.pdf
The Lucifer Effect:
http://www.lucifereffect.com/lucifer.htm