Oh, that's better than I thought.

[gaudior]

So, lots of people know about the Milgrim experiment, wherein people were ordered to shock a confederate to the point of apparently killing him. And we're always shocked to hear that people did it-- it tells us a lot about authority and will and how fascism works.

The thing I didn't know was the percentage that refused. While it's true that the majority went on and shocked the person apparently to death-- it's not that big a majority.

35% of people wouldn't do it. When the experiment was repeated (in a kinder and gentler and less traumatic fashion) in 2006 by Burger, that number was 30% and 36% in two different conditions.

A third of people wouldn't do it.

So... be part of that third. And show other people that they can do it, too.

--R

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[papersky.livejournal.com]

And it was the reluctance of Nazi soldiers to massacre Jews that led to setting up the camps. It wasn't easy for fascists to get people to be fascists. What's easy is getting people to turn a blind eye to things to things that aren't their own immediate concerns.