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- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 22:56:16 GMT
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- From: G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
- Subject: Re: Torture, again.
- Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- :> The ultimately chilling conclusion is that torturer's MUST have normal
- :> personalities--"Any of us, in a similar situation, might be capable of
- :> the same cruelty. One probably cannot train a deranged sadist to be an
- :> effective torturer or killer. He must be in complete control of himself
- :> on the job."
- :>
- :> The evidence for this is quite convincing, but I still want to deny it.
- :> I guess that's just my American Optimism.
-
- :and who would go to the gas. Still others--I would guess the
- :majority--were perfectly ordinary people who were trained, schooled,
- :or whatever into regarding their victims as faceless and dehumanized.
-
- :The teaching and learning part is what is most horrifying. HOW that
- :is done is beyond me. How do you convince other people, and how do
-
- Read the Stanley Milgram stuff that Karen referred to. It takes about
- an hour to turn the average American into a vicious killer. It's no
- surprise the AMA banned all such research from that time on. (The
- reason for the ban being ostensibly that the experimental subjects
- didn't realise it was a psych experiment, and this was unethical...
- yeah, sure...)
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- G
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