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This is the whole point of the Stanford Prison Experiment. "I merely played my part"
by msg 14y ago
This is the whole point of the Stanford Prison Experiment.
"I merely played my part"
- rooshdi 14y agoDon't forget the Milgram Experiment: http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7article/article35.htm http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7article/article... http://youtu.be/W147ybOdgpE http://youtu.be/W147ybOdgpE And the good ole Elevator Experiment: http://youtu.be/aX1gL5Zqkao http://youtu.be/aX1gL5Zqkao
- billpatrianakos 14y agoUgh I knew that either the prison experiment or Nazis would come up. Hyperbole. It's a real fine line and equating some of the things people have retorted with to what's happened with MegaUpload isn't fair. They're not n the same level. Yeah, there's potential for abuse but at the same time I see this as a necessary evil. You trust and hope that they get things right most of the time. That's the social contract we all enter into unless we want anarchy. But all I was saying is try to see things as the other side would. As the guys carrying out orders would. We have a hard time putting ourselves in others' shoes around here. Try it out and maybe what I said will sound just a little more reasonable.
- Karunamon 14y agoThey're all functionally the same thing, as in they all relate to the same principal: "Doing bad things just because you were told to do so doesn't absolve you of the responsibility for doing bad things" It applies whether you are a cop, a third reich officer, an employee at a corporation, whatever. The principal still stands.