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I think you aren't considering the fact that in the Milgram experiments, 65% of people will apply a deadly shock to someone who is agonizing just because an aut
by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
I think you aren't considering the fact that in the Milgram experiments, 65% of people will apply a deadly shock to someone who is agonizing just because an authority told them so.
So I think it's safe to say that given we are herd animals, 65% just want to go along and get along. If this subset of the population don't care about people literally agonizing and killed without reason, what chance does privacy stand?
- throwaway2048 7y agoThat would imply there has never been progress on social and government overreach issues ever. That is clearly false.
- 4ntonius8lock 7y agoTo me, I'm not sure how 65% followers vs 35% free-er thinkers means progress can't be made. It's just acknowledging the reality in the difficulty of change. I could be missing something though.
- shakna 7y agoYou might want to consider not relying on Milgram to make your point, what with the replication crisis taking out about 2/3rds of psychological research as deeply flawed, and Milgram and the various replications, have not escaped criticism.
- 4ntonius8lock 7y agoI only quote it because some people can't use observation data to understand the world. They rely on the authority of science to prove it to them. Way before Milgram it was known: jails, concentration camps, humanity is rife with stories of atrocities. And of a significant percentage of the population participating.