How many would obediently inflict pain on others simply because someone in authority told them to do so? About 65%. The most fundamental lesson of our study [is that] ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources to resist authority. - Dr Stanley Milgram, the designer of a study in which volunteers shocked each other with what they believed were potentially deadly voltages in a mock learning experiment simply because he firmly requested that they do so.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 22:54:29 +0000
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