Many good people commit evil acts thinking they are doing the right thing , manipulation and brainwashing play a major role in people committing these acts
agreed
watch the Milgram experiments, what people will do when encouraged and convinced its acceptable..
40 male participants aged between 20-50 years
Volunteer sample obtained from newspaper advertisements for a study on memory
Participant paired with a confederate. Participant was always the 'teacher' and confederate was always the 'leaner'
Actor was pretending to be the experimenter, who was dressed in a white lab coat to enforce the idea of im having legitimate authority
The confederate would consistently give the wrong answer then cry out when the 'electric shock' was given
If the participant asked advice, the actor used a series of predetermined 'verbal prods' to encourage them to continue
No participants stopped below 300v
12.5% stapped AT 300v
65% shocked all the way up to 450%, compared to Milgram's predicted 3%
3 participants had stress induced seizures, and the rest showed signs of sweating and trembling