Evil Not So Mundane, Says Disturbing New Probe

What prompts the common man to commit acts of evil is the question that has been debated by philosophers, moralists, historians and scientists for centuries. One idea that carries much weight today is this: you, me - almost anyone - is capable of carrying out atrocities if ordered to do so. Commanded by an authoritarian figure, and wishing to conform, we could bulldoze homes, burn books, separate parents from children or even slaughter them, and our ...