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Yes, but put an authority figure behind the majority (60%) of people and they'll commit murder. Given the right manipulation virtually everyone will commit murd
by electromagnetic 16y ago
Yes, but put an authority figure behind the majority (60%) of people and they'll commit murder. Given the right manipulation virtually everyone will commit murder (certain variations of Milgram's experiment got up to 90% in NA, whilst the Standard test got 92% in the Netherlands - so I can't imagine what the manipulative variations would achieve there).
I don't find becoming an SS commandant to be a particularly appealing way to raise my children. Sure, it might get them a high paying job, but it won't get them happiness because that's a self-fulfilling need.
I'm happy because I'm married, I have stable financials and I get to spend my leisure time doing things that I enjoy like writing. None of which my parents had a hand in achieving, and somehow I don't think I would enjoy them if my parents did have a hand in it. I wouldn't be happy if my parents handed me cash, in fact right now I'm in a huge conundrum because my parents said they're buying me and my wife plane tickets. They had no hand in me getting married (I would actually join a religion to simply thank a deity for this one) aside from well wishes. And they had no hand in my enjoying to write.