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Obedience To Authority

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What this book knows

Ordinary people obey destructive authority not from malice but from the situational logic of hierarchy itself.

Sex: Absent
Work: Present
Learning: Present
Religion: Absent

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obedience-and-authority

Of the 40 subjects, 26 obeyed the orders of the experimenter to the end, proceeding to punish the victim until they reached the most potent shock.
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Young men aghast at experimental subjects proclaimed they would never behave in such a way, but in months performed actions that made shocking the victim seem pallid.
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The relationship among the actors is twice as important as the content of the action; base prediction on social structure, not character.
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self-and-identity

Ordinary people, critics assert, do not administer painful shocks simply because ordered to. Only Nazis and sadists perform this way.
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mind-and-cognition

Depressing the button releasing Armageddon has about the same emotional force as calling for an elevator; evolution has not built inhibitors against remote aggression.
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From the standpoint of evolutionary survival, all that matters is that we end up with organisms that can function in hierarchies.
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