The Science of Evil
Did anybody see this and have the eerie feeling people can be worse than we want to believe? I recall reading about Stanley Milgram's controversial Yale experiments and both a sick feeling in my stomach as well as a feeling that perhaps entire groups of people who have done horrible crimes against humanity, while claiming they were "just following order," are really no different from most people.
Last night's recreation was worth seeing and causing me to be disturbed again. 'Primetime' Re-Creates a Famous Experiment to Understand How Ordinary People Can Perform Unthinkable Acts.