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@RichWithey thanks buddy. It was/is an interesting experiment that he done wasn't it mate

Was he the guy that did that electric shock experiment to see if people would obey? Awesome write btw 👏😘

@sjw yeah he was a prof at Yale uni in USA and devised a social experiment in 1961 to see if people would inflict pain on others whilst being told to continue by a fake dr in uniform. He had a fake electric shock machine and actors involved where a test subject was told to shock someone in another room via machine if they got answers wrong, which they did on purpose. The machine had fake voltage from 15v upto 450v and could here the victims screams for mercy and to end it. The subject was paid and told at the beginning they could leave at anytime. At 150v the victim begged for it to stop but the fake dr tells me to continue, most did cos they felt uncomfortable saying no to authority figure. Stanley Miglan wanted to see if random ppl from all walks of life and ages would be capable or have it in them to possibly do what the nazis did in ww2 in the death camps (some 15-20years earlier), he concluded that most of us would. It's an amazing piece of film. YouTube/google it or watch "curiosity" series on sky documentaries as they re-created a similar thing with very similar results

@RichWithey he done a few psychology/social experiments but famous for this one, I think

The policeman tasering a blind man is a true story too as are all the other facts 👍

I will its quite disturbing to think we could do something like that 😱 I'm familiar with the prison facts and just watched that story on the news about the blind man..maybe our police need better eye tests they're are always mistaking things for weapons (yeah rite!) I will check out that series sounds interesting 😘

@sjw it's very worrying but also quite fascinating watching the subjects handle the situation and their reasons behind why they continued to give a stranger a 160volt shock. The curiosity series has episodes on "life before birth" which is really cool as they explain and show what a single sperm cell goes through to get to the egg. Another one was about the effects of drugs. I do not think its the police eyesight but more training, I mean, how can you mistake a blind man with a white stick for a nutter with a sword, 50,000 volts this guy received and he had 2 hearts attacks recently, surely the police would get close enough to see he's blind if they close enough to taser? Common sense surely?

@smellyfingers defo babe sometimes I think they are just trigger happy I'm sure some of them get carried away with the sense of power that they're given I have a friend who was beaten up quite badly in police custody a few years ago so I know some of them definitely have that mentality 😏