Milgram torture test repeated and the results are the same. People still torture other people if told to do so

ok, I got some major issues with torture. I do not believe under any circumstances that it is ok to torture another human being and former torture specialists are now coming out to say that it is NOT an effective measure for getting information from suspected terrorists.

BBC News reports that the famous Milgram test was redone, and shockingly, the results were pretty much the same.

Flash back to 1963: Yale University professor Stanley Milgram's work, published in 1963, recruited volunteers to help carry out a medical experiment, with none aware that they were actually the subject of the test.
A "scientist" instructed them to deliver a shock every time the actor answered a question wrongly. When the pretend 150-volt shock was delivered, the actor could be heard screaming in pain, and yet, when asked to, more than eight out of ten volunteers were prepared to give further shocks, even when the "voltage" was gradually increased threefold.
Some volunteers even carried on giving 450-volt shocks even when there was no further response from the actor, suggesting he was either unconscious or dead.

The new experiment had a similar format, and suprisingly similar results:
Dr Jerry Burger, of Santa Clara University, used a similar format, although he did not allow the volunteers to carry on beyond 150 volts after they had shown their willingness to do so, suggesting that the distress caused to the original volunteers had been too great.Again, however, the vast majority of the 29 men and 41 women taking part were willing to push the button knowing it would cause pain to another human.
Even when another actor entered the room and questioned what was happening, most were still prepared to continue.
He told Reuters: "What we found is validation of the same argument - if you put people in certain situations, they will act in surprising and maybe often even disturbing ways."
He said that it was not that there was "something wrong" with the volunteers, but that when placed under pressure, people will often do "unsettling" things.


Even though it is hard to take lab work and translate it into reality and human habit to translate Milgram's previous work, and this work done now helps explain how humans are able, in times of conflict, to take part in torture and even genocide.

Let's learn from our mistakes, torture is never ever ever ok.

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