Re:The Lifespan of a Lie – Why can’t we escape the Stanford ...
by jstarfish on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @09:32AM
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Doctors administer lethal injections in many states that institute the death penalty. Nobody forces them to accept such a role.
Someone I know used to specialize in physically rehabilitating torture victims...for the sake of getting them put back together just enough so they could withstand further torture.
Systems create behavior. Its a large part of how cycles of abuse persist.
i don't think systems create behavior. They do though unleash and amplify. They also can force. I don't think any doctor, with their deeply ingrained "do no harm", would administer a shock in the Milgram for example.
> "It's not my fault, I was only following orders.
I think following an order backed by a credible punishing force is separate subject.
>Someone should have been holding me accountable."
That comes as an attempt at defense when you're already being held accountable, and which is basically equivalent to an admission that you've made a error calculating your chances of being held accountable, and it is puzzling to see why/how some reasonable people would still fall for it and accept such admission as a defense whether in legal or in moral/ethical space.