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      3 years ago

      Have you heard of the Ash conformity experiments? About 75% of the test subjects gave incorrect answers knowingly, because the rest of the group disagreed. 3 people were enough to trigger such a response…

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          3 years ago

          Agreed, it says a lot about the current political climate.

          I recently read a letter by Dietrich Bonnhoefer, who was a German Lutheran pastor and anti-Nazi dissident, who was imprisoned in 1943, hanged by Hitler’s personal directive in April 1945.

          His letter is titled “On Stupidity” and it explains A LOT about the same phenomenon.