Decision making is a difficult subject to completely understand, one would have to understand how each individual brain works and processes information. Poncie Rutsch created an article titled "Men and Women Use Different Scales to Weigh Moral Dilemmas", which talked about going back in time and asked what someone would do given the opportunity to kill Hitler before he came to power. Women were more …show more content…
Melissa Dittmann wrote an article titled "What makes good people do bad things?", This article is about experiments and how different factors like social conditions, such as anonymity, can affect one's choices. One part of the article talked about an experiment done back in 1974 by Harvard anthropologist John Watson in which he evaluated twenty-three cultures to determine whether or not warriors who changed their appearance caused more harm to their victims. The experiment showed they did due to the feeling of anonymity. The article states "What's more, a person's anonymity cab be influenced by action in an anonymity-conferring environment that adds to the pleasure of destruction, vandalism and the power of being in control" (P12). When people are able to hide their identity, they are more willing to cause harm to