Evil is latent in everyone and activated by a moral conversion process.

Evidence

The possibility of being evil is latent in all of us, and can be made actual and active, among other ways, by the conversion process. The person who goes a certain distance in the process has been fundamentally changed, and is now capable of doing harm in an autonomous way. He or she has “changed, changed utterly,” has become evil. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3957

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the book’s ongoing Milgram/Stanford prison discussion of situational evil; ‘changed, changed utterly’ quotes Yeats’s Easter 1916.