Neil Oliver about Milgram experiment

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"The Milgram experiments, where people were duped into thinking that they were giving up to and including lethal electric shocks to people that they couldn't see, but they could hear and they were being reassured all the time by men and women in white coats purporting to be doctors, that it was ok because they were doing what they were told by people in authority. And so they were prepared to set aside their own morality and ethics and deliver what would have been lethal electric shocks.
And then there's that experiment where people were unknowingly the only people that weren't in on the trick. And 2 different lines were put on a blackboard and people were invited to say are they different lengths or are they same. And everyone who was in on the trick said: No, they are exactly the same length. And the dupe, the mark the only person who didn't know could plainly see that there were 2 different lengths but decided to go with the majority decision, assuming there must be something wrong with himself.
And yet with all that background knowledge that we have about our susceptibility we've found ourselves here again."

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