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On Jan 2, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Stefano Mori <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2009-Jan-02, at 18:51, Jared ''Danger'' Earle wrote: > >> The point of Milgram's tests wasn't that people were willing to >> inflict abuse. The point was that people would do what they're told. >> >> You get another Holocaust because you get a madman willing to order >> people to kill, not because people obey orders. > > > I agree with you and it is both.... the individual is willing and the > authority is willing. > > How many of those same Milgram subjects would have carried out the > shocks if the person in the other room was their own wife or daughter? > > I'll take a wild speculative guess and say NONE. > > In fact most people would stop right at the outset... "what do you > mean you have my wife tied up in the next room??" > > "What do you mean you are conducting an experiment on my wife?" > > The core of the matter is that humans have very little genuine empathy > and compassion for others. Your boss tells you to fire your > subordinate. You're told to administer shocks. You walk past a > homeless person in the street. It is all the same thing. The Milgram > experiment just put it in the lab. > > So as I say, teach people about the Milgram experiment, and soldiers > will get the message that actually, the job of abusing and oppressing > is even easier than they might have imagined. Yay! > You may be right about that !!!! K > > Stefano > > _______________________________________________ > OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] > http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters > List hosted at http://cat5.org/ _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
