Psychology is considered as a science of behaviour and mind set of an individual whichinvolves conscious, unconscious phenomena as well as feeling and thoughts. Psychology is abroad concept that encompasses the study of human thought, behaviour, development,personality, emotion, motivation etc. The personality of an individual reflect from theirbehaviour. Humans can analysed as a combination of good and bad qualities (Miller, 2016).‘Evil’ people are those who are unable to empathise with others. Thus for evil people, their ownneeds and desired are the most important element as they are majorly concern on fulfilling theirown desires and needs. Some people are born evil, made evil and combination of both. In thisparticular essay the evil nature of people and their background are discussed. The major purposeof this essay is to providing different arguments about whether people are born evil, made evil ora bit of both through quoting examples of evils deeds of individuals.Evil is define as a powerful force which some people believe to exist and that causeswicked and bad things to happen. However evil can also be described as to anything which causeharm, with or without the moral dimension. Evil consisting as an intentionally behaviour of anindividual, in a way in which harm, abuse, demean, dehumanize, or destroy innocent of others,or using one’s authority and systemic power to encourage or permit others to do so on yourbehalf. In short, it is ‘knowing better but doing worse'. Natural evil is considered as an evil forwhich not any non-divine agent can be held morally responsible for its presence. On thecontrary, moral evil is presented by the human activity. The existence of natural evil issues beliefin the Omni-benevolence or the omnipotence of deities and the availability of deities involvinggod. This applies to different dictators such as Stalin and Hitler and other serial killers andrapists. This report would argue that their potential characteristics is an inability to empathisewith others and treat them in appropriate manner (Zimbardo, 2011). They are not even able tounderstand or sense other people’s emotions or their suffering and also cannot see the worldthrough other people’s perspective and so have no sense of their rights and norms. They considerother people as an object to fulfil their own perspective and desires.Many evil people have sacrificed many human lives for the purpose of achieving theirown ambitions and goals. The best suitable example to understand the evil deeds would be ofJoseph Stalin, a dictator, evillest dictator ever. Joseph Stalin is the former dictator of SovietUnion and was famous for his brutal leadership. He had murdered the lives of millions of peopleto attain his own purpose or agenda which is his Great Terror campaign, that cost a great deal of1
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