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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (15752)	9/5/2001 1:18:11 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 59480

Hi Charleymane; Re that shock experiment. I've never felt superior to the people who obeyed the orders to keep increasing the voltage. Humans have an extremely strong instinct to obey authority. I see it around me all the time. In little things, like our tendency to place all trust in our leaders (and reward or punish them for things that were far beyond their control). But what disgusts me is that I feel that respect for authority myself. Not as an intellectual thing, but as a visceral instinct. I think it's an inbred defense mechanism built up from hundreds of thousands of years when obeying was a really good idea. -- Carl