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Originally posted by jaguar
Thankyou bitman. It seems you've forgetten the experiemnts done in the 50s into human behavoius where they got ordinary americans to apply hideosly painful electric shocks and eventully killed...This so soon after people liek you were saying similar things baout Nazi Germany 'how could they DO that?!'.
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But Jag, since the experiment happened in the early 1960's, the events of WWII were by then irrelevant history...does that argument sound familar? ;-) And since the experiments happened four decades ago, they're probably not relevant to today's world either.
"Things have changed in the last 50 years, hate to break it to you." :-)
Seriously, though, it would be interesting indeed to see these experiments repeated today...I bet you wouldn't get the 65% response of the 1961 experiment. It would especially be interesting to repeat them in different cultures. I doubt you'd get the same result in , say, Iraq or China, that you'd get in Switzerland.
Oh, and just for accuracy's sake; I've read many accounts of these experiments, but never heard anyone say the subjects thought the apparent subject were killed. I think you're overboard on that one.