An Experiment the Universe Is Conducting Right Now
<p>When I was teaching high school, students often asked: <em>If it’s true that humans are (or can be) compassionate, why is there so much human-caused suffering and hurt in the world?</em></p>
<p>One scientific experiment greatly influenced, for decades, how many people thought about this question. This is the “obedience experiment” carried out by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDhBk3uQPWk" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Stanley Milgram</a> in the early 1960s, just after the beginning of the <a href="http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?Moduleld=10005179" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Eichmann trial</a>. In that experiment, a volunteer was asked to play a teacher to help another person, the “student,” learn word pairs. Each time the “student” replied with the wrong word, the “teacher” would seemingly give them an electric shock. The voltage of the shock was increased with each wrong answer.</p>
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