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    1 year 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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        1 year 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.