On 2 Jan 2009, at 18:36, Kevin Callahan wrote: > An instructor at West Point contacted Professor Burger to say that she > was teaching her students about his findings. She had the right idea > and the right audience. The findings of these two experiments should > be part of the basic training for soldiers, police officers, jailers > and anyone else whose position gives them the power to inflict abuse > on others.
The point of Milgram's tests wasn't that people were willing to inflict abuse. The point was that people would do what they're told. You get another Holocaust because you get a madman willing to order people to kill, not because people obey orders. I think they missed the point of the original experiments. -- Jared Earle - [email protected] http://jearle.eu/ - http://blog.23x.net/ "Toss the SPORK! Toss the SPORK! And travel back through time with the aid of chance." _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
