Milgram was hoping to learn something basically uplifting: History's worst sadists were in
fact decent human beings, just highly susceptible to the corrupting influence of authorities.
Not exact matches
Simply put I don't care whether or not there
is a supreme
being because it wouldn't change the
fact that I have to
be a
decent human being to my fellow
human beings.
OOOOO i du n no, because atheists preach compassion and doing the right thing for the
fact that it makes you a
decent human being whereas religious folks do the right thing for fear of eternal damnation to hell for instance.
This error remains intuitively plausible and has a
decent cultural pedigree, so therefore those who make it should not
be dismissed as utterly irrational or evil, even though they may seem so from the viewpoint of one who bears in mind the
facts of
human development.
The very
fact that the pope potentially said this means little - he protects pedophiles, he
is not much of
decent human.
After all, she thought,
human beings were equipped with half
decent peripheral vision just so they could in
fact see things even as they rushed right past them.