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

[Michael Agar]

Nick--Once again, the wiki oracle speaks, or emits methane, or  
something...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment


On May 24, 2007, at 3:01 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
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