Crack 12 in the liberty bell is hearafter known as the Milgram Syndrome.
“Stanley Milgram conducted a series of experiments on obedience to authority which he conducted at Yale University in 1961-1962. He found, surprisingly, that 65% of his subjects, ordinary residents of New Haven, were willing to give apparently harmful electric shocks-up to 450 volts-to a pitifully protesting victim, simply because a scientific authority commanded them to, and in spite of the fact that the victim did not do anything to deserve such punishment.”
Stanley Milgram was the first to test the human frailty that sixty five percent of government workers exhibit. The test has been repeated over a dozen times over the years in several different countries with exactly the same results each time.
Small irony that about 65% of the people do not think that government is doing a good job. The only people that approve of the deeds of government corresponds to the people that are on the government dole AND would unmercifully shock others only because they were told to do so.
Monkeys do not conform to the Milgram profile preferring to their own native justice that is proportional to the injustice; they simply will not help others that do not reciprocate.
Perhaps the Milgram experiment shows the basis for human evil. Plausibly the “Milgram Syndrome” (MS) is the basis of all human evil. All people should make an effort to resist or mitigate MS – especially when it emanates from government!