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[-] Thepolack@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

See my other post below for a little more context, but basically it showed that people will do awful things if someone in authority tells them to

[-] Thepolack@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Well yes and no. You can say that it's just the people in any experiment but past a certain point you have to be able to extrapolate the results to the population at large. And (again, if memory serves) the results of this experiment have been replicated numerous times across numerous population samples.

Also, the point of Milgram isn't that people are fucked up, it's that people will follow orders when those orders are issued by someone in a perceived position of authority. And it's funny you mention Nazis because the experiment was Milgram's response to the "I was just following orders" defence from the Nuremberg trials.

In conclusion: non-fucked-up people will do fucked up things if their boss tells them to.

[-] Thepolack@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

If I correctly remember my psychology lessons from 10+ years ago though, the results of Milgram's experiment has been reproduced countless times which sort of backs up the original point.

[-] Thepolack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Your argument is really "Indian isn't a race"?

[-] Thepolack@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Are you telling me a new Half Life game came out three years ago and I missed it?

[-] Thepolack@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It's definitely racist when you say that those are Indian family values. It's not racist is you say those are Sunak family values.

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