I am grateful to the Heresiarch (an excellent UK blogger) for highlighting this woman:
who recently demonstrated on TV that mindless conformity is alive and well (as was also reflected in the results of MovingIn07's poll on the HK Government's panic). The programme repeated the famous Milgram experiment involving testing people's willingness to, apparently, give dangerous electric shocks to others in the name of science. At the Heresiarch reports it:Scary stuff indeed.The women, I'm sorry to report, appeared to be the worst. A pretty nineteen year-old student dished out the shocks without a flicker of emotion or thought - even after hearing a voice screaming "let me out - my heart's starting to bother me". After that, the subject stopped answering - an obvious sign that something was seriously amiss. But this did not even occur to the airhead at the controls, who continued flicking the switches, until eventually she turned to the "professor" with a beaming smile and asked "have we killed him?" Terrifying.