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>> everybody is torn. nobody thought that this was a lot of fun or something they enjoy doing. but they could not find a way to stop themselves from going along with it. >> the blind obedience in this case is being compared to the behavior of german soldiers ordered to commit atrocities insisted nazi concentration camps. in fact the shows whole premise is based on an experiment from yale back from the 1960s, which used a similar method. in the yale experiment, the people inflicting the painful s...

In the yale experiment, the people inflicting the painful shocks thought the electricity was real, too. that didnt stop two-thirds of them from giving the maximum shock available, 400 volts. >> most people will in fact act in this horrendous way and press the shock levers that they think is delivering very dangerous, if not, lethal electric shocks to another person. the moral there is not that people are horrible or that were brutal or sadistic individuals, the lesson is, really that in certain ...

It. >> reporter: the blind obedience in this case is being compared to the behavior of german soldiers ordered to commit atrocities inside the nazi concentration camps. in fact, the shows whole premise is based on an experiment from yale back in the 1960s which used a similar method. in the yale experiment, the people inflicting the painful shocks thought the electricity was real, too. that didnt stop two-thirds of them from giving the maximum shock available, 400 volts. >> most people will, in ...