1. Obedience to Authority
... otherwise abhor hurting others will commit extreme acts of cruelty toward others if ordered to do so by an authority. Milgram observed that obedience is at the same time both necessary and potentially destructive. While the extermination camps of Nazi Germany bear no resemblance to a university laboratory, Milgram tried to maintain the essential elements of such extreme conditions during his ... It would be easier for the teacher to trivialize the next level of punishment or to interpret his participation as part of a greater good, while interpreting the learner's pain as a necessary evil...
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