“It was evil.”
“We were supposed to be the good guys.”
“We ended up being worse than the third Reich.”
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In Milgram’s obedience experiment, 65% of participants followed orders all the way to the maximum 450-volt shock, which they believed they were administering to another person.
But in a variation where two fellow participants refused to continue, 90% resisted. So they had to observe someone else non complying. Resisting to engage in that atrocity.
Then the noncompliance skyrocketed to 90%. All you had to do was observe someone else say, no, I am not going to do that. And now it provided permission for others to resist it.
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The wise will understand
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