We should put all poticians through this test and if they fail, kick them out.
The liberals are giving us greater and more violent “shocks” now. What will they do next.
I got to wonder how many said “Fie on your evil experiment” as soon as they got wind of what it was. I hope most, and unless they were clued in that it was fake, a lot would have gone on to call police on them.
I’m reading “Tombstone”, about Mao’s murder by starvation of 45,000,000 Chinese in 1957-1960.
The Chinese never seem to have revolted against their masters.
Their masters (commies) were well fed, and beat the holy heck out of anyone and everyone. There was virtually never resistance within or against the torturers.
Wow. 45M dead and nary a whimper.
Buy a gun. Develop a spine. Speak your mind. Go down fighting.
Not sure you can draw a direct parallel to supporting the gassing of minorities and suppressing all dissent to a situation you know is an experiment but may feel you don’t know all the parameters of why inflicting pain is required.
The Stanford Prison Experiment is up there, too.
BFLR...........
Seems like there was behavioral another experiment conducted by a college back in the 60s that got out of hand and ended with some participants enduring and inflicting some pretty severe abuses.
As I recall half the students were guards and the other half prisoners. When the prisoners decided that they had had enough, the guards refused to turn them loose and fell into bizarre power and torture cycle.
Milgram showed that obedience without question is almost a norm and that’s reflected in modern psychology where the communist homosexuals who dominate the field say that NOT being blindly obedient is a mental illness: Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD).
See how that works?
Don’t like the IRS auditing you for your politics? You’re mentally ill.
Don’t like Obamacare? You’re mentally ill.
Don’t like no-knock, warrantless raids of your home at 3am? You’re mentally ill.
Just like in the USSR the left is using psychology as a weapon against their opponents.
Social scientists love to retell this story, the famous Milgram experiment.
See, we’re all closet Nazis so we need a strong hand—gov. and ‘Those Who Know’: academicians, donchaknow?
I’ve always thought the test subjects knew or strongly suspected what was going on, but didn’t want to lose their pay. What was minimum wage in ‘63? 75 cents @ hour?
I wonder if there is a selection bias in these studies. Are people who are willing to participate in them more subordinate to authority than the general population?
I’ve seen the black and white films shot during the experiment. Startling.