Quote of the day by American psychologist Stanley Milgram: “There is a propensity for people to accept definitions of action provided by legitimate authority.” |
Stanley Milgram (Image source: Wikipedia) Most of us like to think we would never harm an innocent person just because someone told us to. We trust our own conscience to stop us. Stanley Milgram, a psychologist who studied this question, discovered something far more uncomfortable. Again and again, ordinary, decent people went along with orders…
