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This is the whole point of the Stanford Prison Experiment.

"I merely played my part"

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Don't forget the Milgram Experiment:

http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7article/article...

http://youtu.be/W147ybOdgpE

And the good ole Elevator Experiment:

http://youtu.be/aX1gL5Zqkao

Ugh I knew that either the prison experiment or Nazis would come up. Hyperbole. It's a real fine line and equating some of the things people have retorted with to what's happened with MegaUpload isn't fair. They're not n the same level. Yeah, there's potential for abuse but at the same time I see this as a necessary evil. You trust and hope that they get things right most of the time. That's the social contract we all enter into unless we want anarchy.

But all I was saying is try to see things as the other side would. As the guys carrying out orders would. We have a hard time putting ourselves in others' shoes around here. Try it out and maybe what I said will sound just a little more reasonable.

They're all functionally the same thing, as in they all relate to the same principal:

"Doing bad things just because you were told to do so doesn't absolve you of the responsibility for doing bad things"

It applies whether you are a cop, a third reich officer, an employee at a corporation, whatever. The principal still stands.

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