Food For Thought: Destructive obedience – 'Ordinary people can do bad things in the wrong context.'

"Individual moral accountability. It's a Nuremberg principle but it's also an ancient Judeo-Christian principle."

"That small compromise can lead on to the next slightly bigger compromise. Do not give moral compromise a ‘foot in the door’."

"Make no mistake. Conscience can be blunted. Precedent can be set."

"A degree of empathy was possible, but overridden by conformity."

"The obedient always seem to think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly."

Dr. John Campbell looks at the Stanley Milgram's experiments on eliciting electric shock on people. Is this how we had behaved (and for some still behaving like this today) during the Covid-19 pandemic? Ridiculed and vilified others who didn't want to comply? In the first of his 18 research studies, 65% of the subjects are willing to inflict the highest electric shock on people. How many people in the world are vaccinated? Around 73%.

More in the Dr. John Campbell video.