Jad Abumrad
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Research in any field is a must, particularly in this day and age.
Do you think that more studies of this sort should be carried out?
We have this kind of godlike sort of vision of like, well, of course what they're doing is wrong.
But if we looked at it from another perspective, there is a sense in which you could celebrate what they're doing.
I mean, I'm not suggesting one should, but I'm just saying there is a sense in which these people are prepared to do something
That's very painful to them and to someone else because they want to promote science.
I mean, you know, I'm giving God because it's like we started with this experiment that we all see as evidence of humans latent capacity for evil.
And you tell us, actually, no, under some circumstances, we don't do the bad thing we're told to do because, here's another flip, we don't have to be told.
In fact, we hate being told, but we will do it on our own if we think it's good.
Now you're saying, actually, that you could read that, that very dark fact, as being actually evidence of something quite noble.
Well, if you dressed it up and if you just had some minor variants of the paradigm, you could presumably make this out.
I mean, it's the fact, of course, that they're administering
pain to a stranger that's what's horrifying about it but imagine they were administering pain to themselves imagine they really were had to administer shocks themselves or something but if they were prepared to do that when i suspect a lot of them would um then we'd say these are people who really believe in science and isn't this a good thing that we have people in our society who are willing to make sacrifices for a great the greater good so in the end where do you come down do you leave this experiment in a light mood or in a dark mood