How does a person’s belief on a different topics range from one another. Why do such horrendous things such as murder be seen as acceptable? how could any example be seen as evil but a blessing to another person? In Radiolab’s hour podcast, the bad show, i was able to somewhat comprehend what is bad, how a person can be bad, and do bad people know that they are doing bad things. this podcast helped me understand what is defined as bad and how it is created by emotions, social influences, and beliefs. This hour podcast also helped me open my view on what is evil and whether a person or thing be truly evil. The first topic that really grabbed my attention was in the Radiolab’s hour long special on “bad” was how social influence can cause obedience or conformity. This theory of social influence was first shown…show more content… Which Adolf claimed he was just following orders. But how a person do such things and justify it as just following orders?. Would the whole event been different for Adolf if he wasn’t under the social influence by others that he would have not supported the Nazi party? I believe that the most evil that can be done is caused through conformity, since pressure from a group can cause a person to completely change and shape into something else. Following up with the Milgram experiment, 65% of the volunteers finished the experiment which shocked people to a point to near death supposedly. Even when it differed from the volunteer’s moral standards, they kept following the experiment because of how they believed it was for the greater good of science yet they were blindly obedient, their beliefs were based on the social
