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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
It was called the Milgram experiment. It was in 1963, and it found that a lot of people would do what they were being told, in spite of the fact that they were hearing screams of pain coming from the other room. IIRC, some even kept going after the screams stopped. Scary stuff.
You can't do that kind of research any more...
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1963 was still in a world of mindless obedience, a hangover from WWII and at the height of the Cold War. I don't think you'd get the same results ten years later. I'd like to think that people have begun more independent thought now, but I guess not.