[Argentine-Firecracker]

It is incomprehensible to me how seemingly “normal” human beings can become so inured in such excruciating and unspeakable cruelty.

[LetsRok]

The caption of the photo should be “Thinking of you at Auchwitz”.

[VOA]

“It is incomprehensible to me how seemingly “normal” human beings can
become so inured in such excruciating and unspeakable cruelty.”

While I think of lots of psychology as Bravo Sierra, I do think
the experiments of Milgram and Zimbardo do show how this can happen.
(A year or so ago I read Martha Stout’s “The Sociopath Next Door”.
She included some information I had never heard about Milgram’s
experiment...that females were just about as likely to fall right in
line and administer the shocks. This did make me more accepting
that a few of the cruelest concentration camp guards were...female.)

Stanley Milgram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Milgram

Milgram experiment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_Experiment

Phillip Zimbardo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Zimbardo

Stanford prison experiment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment