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Obedience to Authority (Perennial Classics)

Stanley Milgram

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Ordinary people obey destructive authority not from malice but because hierarchical structure overrides individual moral judgment.

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Yale knows what's going on, and if they think it's all right, well, it's all right with me. They know more than I do.
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The relationship among the actors is twice as important. Base your prediction not on what participants say but on how they relate in social structure.
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Young men aghast at experimental subjects later performed without compunction actions that made shocking the victim seem pallid.
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Distance and physical barriers neutralize the moral sense. Depressing the button that releases Armageddon has the emotional force of calling for an elevator.
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Few people realize when they are acting according to their own beliefs and when they are meekly submitting to authority.
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I think we are here on our own free will. I don't want to be responsible if he has a heart condition.
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