This made me lose faith in humanity. :(

[flash_fire]

I found this today. I know it is really old, but the 10 people I talked to about this had no clue. I was mortified by the results of this experiment. Well here is the question. So if some authority figure told you to electrocute someone... Would you?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

 

What do you guys think?

 

[Niniel]

I remember reading about this before. :(

[RandA lThor]

Wow, what a coincidence, we literally just talked about this in our human development class. Yeah, me too.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

I didn't click but I'm wondering why you had faith in humanity...

[Leala]

Oh, I've seen about three documentaries on this. So, I'd probably be a pretty bad subject for this experiment. But, I think that if I was. I would stop after the guy started complaining about his heart.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

you talking bout those experiments where ppl show their willingness to administer pain to other humans just cause a guy in a white coat tells them to?

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

you expect too much of the humans if that surprises you. I get in trouble at work bc of my unwillingness to torment other humans on the sayso of authoritah figures. it always seems to surprise them. sheep.

[Leala]

Yeah, this experiment doesn't surprise me either. It makes me sadface, but it doesn't surprise me. :/ ...Which also makes me sadface.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

meh, I was a psych major. but I knew what humans were before that. spent most of elementary school studying ww2 and all.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

I'm having a sad face now.... must look at palate cleansing baby thread...

[David Hermes]

Yeah I was shocked when I heard this, and couldn't believe how weak-minded some people can be.

 

But I want to pose another question, how do you think the results would have played out if the people had a very strong religious background, or even people from different races like the arabs or chinese?

 

Personally, I would want to think that people from other races or coming from a strong religious background(such as muslim, jewish, or even budhists) would stop very quickly after the first few questions. But they only conducted(as far as I know) the experiment on white caucasians which is a very narrow range of humanity. So it would be scientifically wrong for anyone to extrapolate to the whole diversity of humanity.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i hope they don;t run it again to find out.

[Guest]

I have had no faith in humanity since I was first able to think coherantly, so this is nothing new .

[Netbattler11]

Humans. They are dumb. This is known.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

lab rats would not have just followed orders. at least not without a couple training sessions. and some food pellets.

 

humans just want orders to follow.

 

they think if they're following orders, they're on the record, off the hook.

 

faugh.

 

i foreswear allegiance to this species.