Another inconvenient truth Are YOU capable of cold blooded murder?

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Another inconvenient truth Are YOU capable of cold blooded murder?

Are YOU capable of murdering innocent people?

Eichmann’s trial “I was only following orders.” "I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors." He explicitly declared that he had abdicated his conscience in order to follow the Führerprinzip.

. Eichmann= the embodiment of the banality of Evil (Hannah Arendt) Israeli psychiaters concluded that Eichmann was ‘normal’

What does this mean for us? The Milgram Experiment, 1961

 Social psychological experiment  Conducted by Stanley Milgram  Yale University  Measured to which extent people are willing to obey a figure of authority who asks them to do something which conflicts with their personal conscience

Learner (actor) Teacher (real subject of the experiment) Experimenter (authority figure-actor) Electric shock generator (fake) from 15 Volt to 450 Volt (deadly) Wall through which can be communicated (sounds only)

Video Milgram’s Obedience experiment – 5.40 mins

1.Please continue. 2.The experiment requires that you continue. 3.It is absolutely essential that you continue. 4.You have no other choice, you must go on.

 Poll before the experiment asked senior psychology students at Yale to estimate the outcome of the experiment: About 1.2 % of participants would be prepared to inflict the maximum (deadly) voltage

About 65% of participants were willing to inflict the maximum DEADLY voltage. (even though many did not enjoy doing this )

(till 2.30 seconds)

Obedience=danger ous ‘Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.’ Milgram. The Perils of Obedience, 1974.

 The BBC remake  Other social experiments.  Modern genocides and unethical regimes. PYCRfHg3Q

 Would you have administered the maximum voltage?  How likely are you to challenge (unethical) authority ?  How sound is your moral judgement?  Have you ever done something unethical due to the pressure of your environment?