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To: Ilaine who wrote (42951)	5/8/2004 9:26:27 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) of 793721

I know for a fact that I wouldn't have gone along with it Of course not. Neither would I. We aren't in that position, though, and wouldn't be. If you give a bunch of adolescents guns and put them in absolute control of other people, especially people that they are predisposed to view with contempt, the chances of abuse are very, very high. People with internal loci of control don't conform when conforming violates their personal integrity. People with external loci of control conform because they don't have a strong sense of personal integrity. We aren't born with an internal locus of control. We develop it with time and experience. Military training is specifically designed to break down the internal locus of control - soldiers are supposed to do what they are told to do, not what their sense of personal integrity tells them is right. If you create that vacuum and fail to fill it with supervision and discipline, the results are likely to be ugly. The experiments were largely superfluous, like running taste tests to prove people like chocolate. It's nothing we didn't already know.

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