Psychological studies have shown that under the guise of following authority, blind compliance leads to irrational actions; the participants in this study were told to administer increasingly painful shocks to a subject if he or she answered a question wrong, even when the participants could witness the subject’s pain, up to the brink of “death” (the subjects were not actually being hurt). This reflects the mindless compliance that led to genocides and the Holocaust--destroying thousands of lives, cultures, and societies, as well as displacing and destroying families for
Psychological studies have shown that under the guise of following authority, blind compliance leads to irrational actions; the participants in this study were told to administer increasingly painful shocks to a subject if he or she answered a question wrong, even when the participants could witness the subject’s pain, up to the brink of “death” (the subjects were not actually being hurt). This reflects the mindless compliance that led to genocides and the Holocaust--destroying thousands of lives, cultures, and societies, as well as displacing and destroying families for