Unbelievable
Dec 13th 2006 | 5:12 pm
#16
Fighting my corner
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Posts: 11,948
From: Adelaide, South Australia
Re: Unbelievable
Originally Posted by chels
I've read about this experiment before, and other experiments about how natural it is for people to look to 'authority' to guide them even in circumstance where, when you look at it as outsiders, it seems incredibly they would behave in such ways. Very few people apparently will actually buck the system.
But it is simply not true.
Every one of us is only as noble as our most recent thought, impulse, or action.
Dec 13th 2006 | 5:20 pm
#17
Fighting my corner
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 11,948
From: Adelaide, South Australia
Re: Unbelievable
Originally Posted by chels
another aspect of it was the victim's inability to escape - that running naked through the restaurant was a worse option than being abused in a back room.
