news.bbc.co.uk - 12/19/2008
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Decades after a notorious experiment, scientists have found test subjects are still willing to inflict pain on others - if told to by an authority figure. US researchers repeated the famous "Milgram test", with volunteers told to deliver electrical shocks to another volunteer - played by an ...
motherjones.com - 12/17/2008
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motherjones.com —
TORTURE.... Responding to Andrew Sullivan, Reuel Marc Gerecht
defends his defense of torture: I take it from...
your post that if you had been confronted on 7 September 2001 with a captured Khalid Shaykh Muhammad or Abu Zubaydah and you knew that a ...
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Torture
talkleft.com - 12/24/2008
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talkleft.com —
Responding to Reuel Marc Gerecht's defense of his
pro-torture position, Kevin Drum writes : Sadly, I suspect...
that Gerecht is right: if torture had been put to a vote back in 2001, it would have passed. The language would have been prettied up, of ...
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On Torture: The Will Of The People
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Still Willing To Torture
Newshoggers.com —
... Here's why those who authorise and enable a culture in which torture or abuse are possible should bear more culpability than those "bad apples" who actually do the torturing and abuse. ...
Milgram Experiment Revisited
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... have found test subjects are still willing to inflict pain on others - if told to by an authority figure.
US researchers repeated the famous “Milgram test”, with volunteers told to deliver electrical shocks to another volunteer - played by an actor.
Even after faked screams of pain, 70% were prepared to increase the voltage, the American Psychology study found.
Both may help explain why apparently ordinary people can commit atrocities.
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Big Three
The Hollywood Liberal —
... after a notorious experiment, scientists have found test subjects are still willing to inflict pain on others - if told to by an authority figure. US researchers repeated the famous “Milgram test”, with volunteers told to deliver electrical shocks to another volunteer - played by an actor. Even after faked screams of pain, 70% were prepared to increase the voltage, the American Psychology study found. Both may help explain why apparently ordinary people can commit atrocities. Read more ...
Bush Passes Bailout Buck to Obama
The Hollywood Liberal —
... after a notorious experiment, scientists have found test subjects are still willing to inflict pain on others - if told to by an authority figure. US researchers repeated the famous “Milgram test”, with volunteers told to deliver electrical shocks to another volunteer - played by an actor. Even after faked screams of pain, 70% were prepared to increase the voltage, the American Psychology study found. Both may help explain why apparently ordinary people can commit atrocities. Read more ...
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What I find striking is the clinical, dispassionate approach to the administration of torture. The fantasized, intense, urgent torture interrogations of Jack Bauer seemed so focused on obtaining information in comparison. But these accounts paint an entirely different ...
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ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com 12/18/2008 — Ross gives us a fairly thoughtful untangling of his complicated feelings about torture. If I may, I'd quibble with one point. Ross puts Bush's torture advocacy in historical perspective, correctly point out that while torture may be a betrayal of ...
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