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Those Authoritarian, Torture-Loving French
Submitted by Cheryl Cline on Thu, 2010-03-18 03:00
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Glenn Greenwald reports that a French television show replicates the Milgram experiment with horrifying results: "81% of the participants continued to obey the instructions of the authority-figure/host and kept administering higher and higher levels of electric shock."
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For myself, they went far enough when they agreed to participate, the rest was obvious.