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Humans are responsible for the evil that they do, regardless of why they do it.
They are accountable before humanity and God. Yet in spite of many articles and books, researchers and scholars are not of one opinion as to why ordinary people do extraordinary evil. It seems that there is no satisfactory answer to why humanity has a propensity to do evil. And yet there are examples of individuals doing the right thing. The goal of this book is to examine this core paradox in the process of human thinking and decision making.