[FRIAM] [WedTech] Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims|the Daily Mail

[Nicholas Thompson]

Carl, 

I am trying to get my Psych 101 in order:  Was the kitty genovese incident
the one that led to that horrendous series of experiments that demonstrate
that if you give people a shock console (or what they THINK is a shock
console) and ask them politely to do so, they will cheerfully use shocks
that they think are lethal, just so long as they are told to?  

reminds me of the stoners that jg showed us at arrowhead, who would run out
from the crowd, throw a stone, and then sink back into the anonymity of the
crowd.  

Thought experiment:  if all humor were forbidden, would genocide be
possible???  In the Pleistocene context, with many small groups in
desperate conflict for unpredictable resources, what was humor FOR?  

N


> [Original Message]
> From: Carl Tollander <carl at plektyx.com>
> To: <nickthompson at earthlink.net>; <wedtech at redfish.com>
> Date: 5/24/2007 2:52:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [WedTech] Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid
offending	Muslims|the Daily Mail
>
> Nick asks:
>   >Do we need a science of Comparative Genocideology?
>
> Closest I've seen that starts to address this is Chapter 15 from Philip 
> Bobbit's book "The Shield of Achilles"
> titled "The Kitty Genovese Incident and the War in Bosnia".  I'll bring 
> it by FRIAM.
>
> C.