Self-Interest isn’t the Root of Evil, the Desire to Obey Authority, Be Accepted by Others, Is

“Immorality is frequently motivated by a readiness to conform to law and convention in opposition to our own values. In these cases, it’s not that we care too little about others; it’s that we care too much. More specifically, we care too much about how we stack up in the eyes of others.” Exactly. The Milgram experiments at Yale showed that decades ago.