How evil are you people? Watch the video and judge for yourself.

I watch a lot of documentaries on my First Dog flatscreen but seldom do they take my breath away as did the Discovery Channel special, "How evil are you?"

In this installment of their "Curiosity" series, horror film director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel, Inglourious Basterds), recreates an experiment first performed in 1961 by Yale psychology professor Stanley Milligram, to see if the average American would apply stronger and stronger electric shocks to another person if instructed to do so by an authority figure. Turns out they did in 1961 and they still would today. Scary stuff...

The authority figure is portrayed by an older, caucasian, male, wearing a lab coat, who insists the participants continue even if they convey reluctance and/or a desire to stop. With the exception of one female, all of the participants continue as instructed regardless of the (pre-taped) screams of anguish coming from the supposed recipient of the shocks.

 

Do the results of this experiment give you an uncomfortable feeling of déjà vu? They do me. Remember the Holocaust? How about the war crime trials that followed and the Nazi torturers who defended their actions by stating they were "just following orders."?

• Are Americans actually capable of a similar demonic atrocity?
• Does a man in a lab coat really hold that much power over you?
• Would the subjects in this experiment have gone all the way and shocked the stranger to death?
• Do you think you would have behaved differently?
• Are there other variables that should be introduced into the experiment to provide clearer and deeper insight into the human psyche?
• If humans would do this to a fellow human, what would they do if it was an animal receiving the shocks?

This is one of those occasions where ya'll scare the bejezus out of me! I had to start seeing Shaggy the Shrink on a regular basis after watching this show. If I'm foolin', I'm droolin'!

Lots of food for thought here, folks. Take some time to watch the Discovery Channel video and then discuss it with your friends and family. So, just how evil are you?

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
                                                                                            Edmund Burke

Amen, brother Burke!

 ^{Bo Obama Dog Blog sources: Curiosity.com, Fox News}

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I remember learning about those experiments when I was in high school and they terrified me then. I would say, "Well I'm one of the minority who wouldn't do such things under those circumstances," but then I'd think about everyone else thinking that same thing which was even scarier because we can't all be in the minority!

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And to think they put the shock collars on dogs! They should be banned!