It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― “It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
― AristotleLOS ANGELES (AP) — The harrowing Holocaust drama “ The Zone of Interest,” which explores questions of complicity while depicting the mundane lives of a Nazi family in their home adjacent to the Auschwitz death camp, won the Academy Award for best international film.
During Covid some people made the life miserable for non vaccinated people. These people would have obeyed Hitler also. They do anything for security and safety. They are good citizens but not good people.
In my country some people thought it was a good idea to close school and do home schooling by zoom. These people are still around.
The Milgram experiment proved that people will likely follow orders, even harmful ones, when instructed by an accepted authority figure.
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Beginning on August 7, 1961, a series of social psychology experiments were conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, who intended to measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Participants were led to believe that they were assisting an unrelated experiment, in which they had to administer electric shocks to a "learner". These sham or fake electric shocks gradually increased to levels that would have been fatal had they been real.
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