Only the most despicable nation on earth (read the United States) would do something as horrible as waterboarding terrorists. Especially with a flimsy excuse like “Maybe we can get information to keep them from blowing up more buildings and killing more innocent people.”
But as we’ve been told by President Obama, great nations don’t torture.
Take France, or example. Now there’s a civilized nation. They don’t torture people unless it’s for a really good reason. Like maybe winning a TV game show.
According to NPR, “France is reeling from a documentary about a psychological experiment disguised as a game show. The fictitious game show had all the trappings of a real TV quiz show, including a beautiful and well-known hostess, and a raucous audience. A group of contestants posed questions to a man sitting inside a box in front of them in an electric chair.”
The players were urged by both the hostess and audience to send shocks into the man in the box when he gave a wrong answer.
Even when the player screamed out in pain, begging them to stop, 80% of the contestants continued zapping him.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, and now, électricité.
– Written by Patrick Michael
This post was last modified on March 25, 2010
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1. despite outward appearances, france is probably in the top most brutal nations on earth, when it comes to high profile prisoners of war, were talking about shocking the nutsack of prisoners to get info. not to mention the brutal nature of russian military is pretty much ignored by the world at large (like iran, north korea, or china)
the difference between us, and them? we actually admit the stuff we do, shame were so honest :P
2.this is actually based off and old experiment...shows you how sick we can be :D
The guy in the chair was French right? Well then I don't have a problem with that.
off topic,
but how do you think incumbents are sleeping tonight? haha
reminds me of this guy.
God bless November.
SHOCKING!!!
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, and now, électricité.
Brilliant!
darn i was about to post the same thing lol
Thank you. Thank you very much. I'll be here all week.
They may have tried to replicate the Stanley Milgram study: http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/milgram_obedience_experiment.html. The question is why?
Now things of this nature really cannot be done willy nilly like this for psychological reasons anymore, because there are more stringent rules now for psychological studies. Well at least here in the US.
Were strict guidelines in place? I wonder if things are different in France. I think they may be. As for the purpose, okay so they showed that some people will do anything for notoriety or do anything influence by mass amounts of observers. However this is nothing new. This goes back to gladiators in Roman arenas, perhaps even farther back. I don't know it seems silly to do this when you can pretty much guess the outcome using common sense. It is not new. Someone was scratching around for ideas, too bad they weren't original.
As my father used to say, and his father who fought on the European continent in WWII, and his father who fought in WWI and II-the viable gene pool in France was wiped out in the trenches in WWI.