Everyone carries a latent violence that specific conditions can trigger

Evidence

The sleeper effect refers to the latent personality characteristic of violence-prone individuals such as autocrats, tyrants, or terrorists when the appropriate lock and key relationships became established. The sleeper is then roused from the normative stage of his behaviour pattern and the dormant, violence-prone personality characteristics become activated. in some way, all persons are sleepers inasmuch as they have a violent potential that under specific conditions can be triggered. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 474

Categorization

• DEFINE: Formalizes the ‘sleeper’ concept with its lock-and-key mechanism of activation.
• XREF: connects to: Ordinary people can commit extreme brutality under the right circumstances — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 1; Chronic noise conflict has driven ordinary people to lethal violence — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 48; Public executions taught the people that violence could be met with violence — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 125 (+1 more)

Related

• Ordinary people can commit extreme brutality under the right circumstances (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Ordinary people can commit extreme brutality under the right circumstances #corroborates (0.95) — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 1
• Chronic noise conflict has driven ordinary people to lethal violence #exemplifies (0.80) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 48
• Public executions taught the people that violence could be met with violence #exemplifies (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 125