>On behalf of social psychologists everywhere, I must point out that Woj is
>completely missing the point of the Milgram studies. The studies
>demonstrate that people do /not/ simply act on the basis of their own
>preferences and moral beliefs; rather, obedience norms are strong enough
>to compel normal people to apply a 450V shock to an unconscious person.
Dewd! Save your breath. Margaret from long ago, at the birth of LBO-talk, explained all this to him.
You have to kind of skip around b/c the threads not threaded properly, but it's mostly under the subject line, <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/1999/1999-May/009188.html>Intellectual Conservatism and Class Bias against Soldiers
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