Holocaust Memorial Day

[Michael Rolls]

I particularly liked the Plato quote

"the price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men".

Mike

[TREBOR]

Im familiar with the milgram experiments on obedience to authority. You should also look up the Zimbardo prison experiment as every 1st year psychology student does.

These studies were run in the 1960s and 1970s when people had more respect for authority figures and people in a white coat who told them that the experiment MUST continue. The Milgram experients were re-enacted at a later date and got a significantly lower rate of complience.

[klondike]

They clearly had even more in the thirties and forties.

[crabbyob]

what about men hacking others heads off, or throwing men from high buildings because of their sexual prefrences...that wasnt in the 30's nor the 40's...
we might be surprised at what we are capable of....

[Michael Rolls]

never mind the Taliban and their ilk 'queer bashing' was quite rife in the UK back then
Mike