Would you knowingly kill somebody?

Would you knowingly kill somebody?

Question: would you knowingly inflict severe pain or possible death on someone because a perceived person of authority instructs you to do so? This is worth thinking about for a bit, out of every 100 people how many would you think would knowingly do so?

The Link below is to a very interesting experiment I came across a number of years ago. It was conducted in the early 60’s by psychologist Stanley Milgram. This was on the back of some of the first war crime trails for the captured Nazi Generals.

http://www.experiment-resources.com/stanley-milgram-experiment.html

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