I know that feeling.

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Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus Andrew.

Opposite hemisphere 🙃

No idea but I’m not British

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It is absolutely essential that you continue.

But to actually answer, Stanley Milgram was a psychologist who wanted to know about obedience to authority. He was interested in this after the Nuremberg trials where a common justification for the crimes committed was “I was just following orders.”

He set up an experiment where participants had to administer electric shocks to another participant if they made an incorrect answer in a learning task. Each time they gave a shock the next one would be increased up until the final level of “Danger: Severe Shock”. A majority of people complied in giving this essentially lethal shock to a stranger.

In reality the shocks weren’t real, the participant receiving them was in another room and was an actor hired for the experiment. Still many believed they had actually hurt someone.

Wikipedia has a solid write up on it.

Me too and I want it gone 😂

Very painfully