Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft?

• French75@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you haven’t read about the Milgram Experiment, it’s a fascinating, and disheartening journey into notions of authority and compliance. In short… Milgram’s finding was that most people do what they’re told–even when they known it’s wrong–simply because they’re told to do it.

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  • TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have read about it and I have issues with it, at least the original study. The participants signed up for an experiment run by a Yale professor so I’m sure a lot of them didn’t think this would cause serious damage if any damage in reality. The participants signed up knowing they would get paid.

    Not that money would excuse them for “harming” people but in combination with what would appear to be a professionally run experiment by a reputable school, I don’t think people would necessarily assume this was some kind of actual murder room.

    Now if the experiment was to give randomly selected participants off the street a gun and tell them to shoot a puppy, I think the results would differ.

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    • FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I definitely think this experiment has issues, but I think the reasons you mentioned make it more applicable to the military though not other scenarios. Bc soldiers are meant to obey orders above all else. Their commanders aren’t random people, they’re meant to be the authorities who know what’s a war crime and what’s not. Now, obviously that’s not true, or if they do know they don’t necessarily give a shit, but this all sets up a permission structure that it’s “okay” to follow orders even if it seems kinda wrong

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