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January 5, 2009

Ordinary people are killers

People who follow orders to harm others often consider that their victims deserve such treatment as a way of reducing their personal culpability in another’s pain. (Perry, Williard & Perry, 1990)

 

This, plus the Milgram effect, can explain the behaviour of Nazi or Israeli soldiers.

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