Why do "good people" do unethical things?

Why Do Good People Make Unethical Choices
https://www.lighthouse-services.com/newsletters/why-do-good-people-make-unethical-choices/

Fear - the loss of

• Life
• Liberty
• Property
• Comfort
• STATUS

Revenge/Envy

Greed

"Mob Psychology"

Narcissism/Ego

Insulation from Consequences

Indifference

Ignorance - Hanlon's Razor (“never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”)
Related to Occam's Razor ("the simplest explanation is preferable to one that is more complex")

Expedience - short term thinking vs taking the longer view

Racism - Poverty - Militarism

• Any population can be dehumanized (gender, age, race, etc) - propaganda and myth are used to define a population as inferior
• Once dehumanized their rights can be diminished or ignored, and their property taken away
• Police and Military force will be used to enforce the heirarchy

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/02/martin-luther-king-hungry-club-forum/552533/

https://www.nwesd.org/ed-talks/equity/the-three-evils-of-society-address-martin-luther-king-jr/