There is a very interesting post on the Quixotic Infidel blog<\/a> about a new book by Philip Zimbardo called The Lucifer Effect<\/a><\/em>. There is also a talk by Zimbardo available online<\/a>. His lecture<\/a> (and apparently the book as well) focuses specifically on how good people end up doing horrendous things. Although this is his primary interest, he does actually talk about Lucifer<\/a> as a figure in Jewish mythology, also using Escher\u2019s \u201cAngels and Demons\u201d<\/a> as an example. The talk is extremely powerful<\/a>, and shows just how quickly we can find ourselves doing things that we earlier explicitly said \u201cNo way, I\u2019d never do that\u201d.<\/p>\n
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