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Douse The Lights... And Catch The Ghost

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british-shows-ruining-my-life:

In 2009 a replication of the 1961 Milgram experiment was recorded.

The Milgram experiment was focused on the average persons obedience to authority figures.

The findings of this experiment showed how an average person could rationalize giving another human a 450-volt electric shock when put under extreme conditions if instructed by an authority figure.

In the 1961 experiment 65% (26 out of 40) of the participants administered the experiment’s final massive 450-volt shock.

Shockingly, replications of this experiment since then have shown that this number has only risen with the majority of participants going all the way.

We ask ourselves how things like the holocaust could have occurred. Why would so many people participate in attempted genocide? Well the answer is simple, in certain circumstances, the average normal law abiding citizen can convince themselves that violence is absolutely justifiable and inflicting horrific torture to another person is ok. 

 

 

I watched this in my psychology class a few semesters back. Needless to say I was simultaneously horrified and wondering where to sign up to administer the volts.

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samandriel:

if you don’t think history is amusing then you’re wrong because one time 3 different guys declared themselves pope all at once and they all excommunicated each other and it was basically the funniest shit ever

what about that time the Lichtenstein army sent 80 men to Italy to fight and came back with 81  

what about the time when a guy tried to assassinate the archduke, failed, and threw himself into a 2 inch deep river in a suicide attempt

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