Brilliant article. I remember asking myself, when I first read about the Asch and Milgram experiments. "What would I have done?" Most people believe they would have been in the small minority who stuck to their guns in the Asch experiments, or the 30-35% who refused to go 'all the way' in the Milgram experiment, but obviously, this is statistically impossible. It's fair to say that the past 3 years (can you believe this sordid spectacle has dragged on for that long???) has been a global Asch conformity/Milgram experiment, and most people have failed the experiment in a most miserable and disturbing way. The question that troubles me the most is, is this failure simply the consequence of human nature, in which case there's nothing we can do about it, or is it possible to raise and educate children such that they will grow up to be adults who don't just go along to get along?
Brilliant article. I remember asking myself, when I first read about the Asch and Milgram experiments. "What would I have done?" Most people believe they would have been in the small minority who stuck to their guns in the Asch experiments, or the 30-35% who refused to go 'all the way' in the Milgram experiment, but obviously, this is statistically impossible. It's fair to say that the past 3 years (can you believe this sordid spectacle has dragged on for that long???) has been a global Asch conformity/Milgram experiment, and most people have failed the experiment in a most miserable and disturbing way. The question that troubles me the most is, is this failure simply the consequence of human nature, in which case there's nothing we can do about it, or is it possible to raise and educate children such that they will grow up to be adults who don't just go along to get along?
Again, a very well researched and written . ❤️