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1 a. Pick someone you do not like in your life. Explain why do you do not like them. Then try to empathise with their situation. Explain life from their perspective.

When I was in senior high school, I had a classmate named Theo. I did not like him, because he was arrogant. He liked to boast, he showed off a lot of things that he had not had. However, when I knew his family’s background, I tried to empathise with his situation. He came from a poor family, so when he wanted to buy something, he could not afford it. He thought by showing off, he could conceal his situation and showed that his life is fine.

2. Where does the evil come from? The evil describes about a negative side. There are some reasons make people can do bad things. Firstly, evil comes from neuroscience and genetic, both of those can give an impact. If someone “ empathy circuit” in his brain damaged permanently or temporarily, that causes someone to behave cruelly. Secondly, evil comes from social factor. People’s social factor can create their characters. If their surroundings train them to be “an evil”, they will be “an evil”. But if their environments train them to be “an angel”, they will be “an angel”.

Find one example of PURE EVIL in the world today. Link to a newspaper article about this evil!

One of example PURE EVIL in the world today is terrorism.People can do terrorism because of they want to eliminate their rivals. The connection the example with a newspaper article is almost terrorism activity is based by terrorism group. Therefore, the social enviroment gives an impact to create people’s characters. If there are people stay in the terrorism group, they may have terrorism characters. They will kill people to get benefits for their own.

Explain at least 2 details from my newspaper article to help you understand where this evil came from! Both were abused or neglected as children, deprived of what Prof. Baron-Cohen calls the "internal pot of gold," the crucial well of self-belief that children are given by loving parents, and which not only helps their brains develop but also allows them, as adults, to empathize with others.” ( Renzetti)

That quote shows that evil came from people’s social factors. If they grow in a bad environment, they will be “an evil”. But if they have a good environment, they will be not “an evil”. As a result, social factor gives huge impacts to people’s characters.
 * Renzetti)

The quote shows that evil came from people’s mind. All of the people have “an empathy circuit” in their brain. It controls people’s emotional. If it damage, it can make people lose their empathy and change them to be “an evil”.