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I don't see how events like the Holocaust and a mind control experiment are related. The first one is a universally acknowledged shared experience, i.e. no subs

• inglor_cz 3y ago
  Being kept as a prisoner in a mass murder factory for years, IMHO, is a much stronger negative influence than undergoing whatever psychological experiment for two hours a week. While I agree that the experiments run by Murray were nasty, the students were volunteers and spent vast majority of their personal time on their own activities, not in any kind of closed brainwashing facility where you just can't escape.
  • 11235813213455 3y ago
    Maybe you're talking about PTSD, soldiers or prisoners or anyone in a war often have, but this is just one range of mental disorders among many others. Even stress, anxiety, drug dependence/addiction are also mental illnesses, food or other overconsumption. In the end the normality is not sanity nowadays in rich countries
  • mdp2021 3y ago
    > controversial comment > negative influence Throwing together in a broad set, labelled "«negative influence»", conditions that in a form probably did and in other forms you are claiming should have triggered a specific class of effects, and having taken such untenable assumption further reasoning quantitatively to prove points, makes your comment controversial. We cannot just suppose that the (resulting) class of behaviours in question would be necessary consequence of "intense general «negative influence»" - proposal which you yourself deny through observation, but that was not theorized in the first place.