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0:00and if we
0:01asked you to send electric shocks to someone
0:04until you kill him of course you would probably say
0:06no yet in dix-neuf-cent-soixante-trois
0:09sixty-five percent of people obeyed the
0:11calls this experience experience experience
0:13of a thousand grams appear in a brand new episode
0:16of the notebook this experiment is conducted by the psychologist
0:19stanley millgram
0:20at yale university his goal is simple
0:23understand why people
0:24ordinary can
0:25obey violent orders
0:27to conduct this experiment he brings in
0:28participants who think
0:30participate in a study on their memory
0:32explains that they will be teachers
0:34in front of a student and that their role
0:36consists in reading pairs of words and then
0:37test the student's memory with each mistake the
0:41participants who play the role of teachers
0:42must trigger a discharge
0:44to the increasingly strong student in
0:46reality the draw here is rigged
0:48since the student is an accomplice of this experience
0:50and the real subject of this experience
0:52here is the teacher who has no knowledge at all
0:55of what is being played
0:56everything is staged
0:57to be credible
0:59the student is attached and the machine displays
1:01up to quatre-cent-cinquante volts
1:03and a scientific authority
1:05oversees the experience
1:06through the student's mistakes the discharges
1:08increase the student who is indeed a comedian here
1:11he plays his role to perfection
1:13since he reacts he complains he begs to stop
1:16so much the pain is strong
1:18until I no longer answer
1:19at all as if he were dead but despite the doubts
1:21the authority here embodied by stanley millgram himself
1:24insists with this sentence the experience
1:27requires you to continue the
1:28participant finds himself
1:29then faced with a when faced with a choice to disobey or
1:32go all the way results
1:33sixty-five percent of
1:35participants go as far as possible
1:37from the accumulated pain until they even think they have
1:40killed someone
1:41and the most shocking thing about this is that they are not even
1:42not horrible people,
1:44monsters,
1:44but good
1:45normal people like you and me three weeks
1:47after the experience
1:48all teachers
1:49are summoned to explain their
1:51behavior and all
1:53but absolutely
1:53all blame
1:55on the scientific authority he had obviously not done
1:57that obeying orders he had nothing to reproach himself for
2:00and when they learned the real
2:01nature of the experience
2:02the participants have well
2:04were obviously upset to discover their potential
2:07do evil
2:08finally this experience shows one thing
2:10disturbing enough is that under pressure from an authority
2:13many of us obey even against our value
2:16what the philosopher anna arenth called
2:18the banality of evil
2:19the real question
2:20so that's not why they obeyed
2:23but rather and would you have
2:25arrested thank you for listening to the video
2:27until the end and we find ourselves very soon in a
2:29next episode of the notebook bye
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