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category international | miscellaneous | other press author Thursday September 27, 2007 15:40author by Miriam Cotton - MediaBite

Obedience to authority

Most people are prepared to kill on command.

The effect on people of habitual obedience to authority was discovered to be much greater than expected by researchers who tried to find out how far people were prepared to go. The experiement is well known but this description is good and worth considering again:

http://www.swans.com/library/art13/tdace02.html

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/84407

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