“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt Since you are all of great minds, please discuss the three quotes below in relation to Zimbardo’s book and your own perspective of the concepts. Explain each of the quotes and discuss the relevance of each quote to the section of the chapter in which they are presented. Note that your “discussion” of each quote should be at least 150 words for each of the three quotes (not counting the text of the quote if you choose to include it). 1. “One of the most critical, least acknowledged contributors to evil goes beyond the protagonists of harm to the silent chorus who look but do not see, who hear but do not listen. Their silent presence at the scene of evil doings makes the hazy line between good and evil even fuzzier” (Zimbardo 314). 2. “It was clear that there was no accountability. Moreover, the physical setting in which he found himself conferred total anonymity by its barren ugliness. Anonymity of place combined with anonymity of person, given that it became the norm to stop wearing their full military uniforms while on duty. And all around them, most visitors and the civilian interrogators came and went unnamed. No one in charge was readily identifiable, and the seemingly endless mass of prisoners, wearing orange jumpsuits or totally naked, were also indistinguishable from one another” (Zimbardo 351). 3. “We prefer to distance ourselves from such a fundamental truth, seeing the madness of evildoers and senseless violence of tyrants as dispositional characters within their personal makeup. Arendts analysis was the first to deny this orientation by observing the fluidity with which social forces can prompt normal people to perform horrific acts” (Zimbardo 288-289). E-book– https://clpccd.instructure.com/courses/15048/pages/ebook-of-the-lucifer-effect?module_item_id=788273
