"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

-Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Who Wants To Be A Torturer? ...I mean, Millionaire? ...I mean, sheep?


Further reinforcing the suspicion that social pressures are too often stronger than ethics... this link to a story about a TV game show broadcast yesterday evening - quaintly entitled "The Game of Death" - and the documentary filmmaker who produced it. Perhaps the most telling quotation from the article:
"They are not equipped to disobey."

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