The capacity for evil is latent in everyone and activatable by conversion

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Evil is latent in everyone and activated by a moral conversion process. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3957; Every person can perform evil under sufficient situational pressure — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4034; Ordinary people transform into autonomous, knowing evildoers through a conversion process — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3920 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Evil is latent in everyone and activated by a moral conversion process. #corroborates (0.98) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3957