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Letter: Obedience and social resistance reconsidered (2)

Published 18 April 2018

From Constance Lever-Tracy, Adelaide, South Australia

Perry gives an excellent critique of Stanley Milgram’s claims of widespread willingness by individual volunteers to obey immoral orders. In addition, his later work shows that resistance to such orders was much more common where collective action by a group of volunteers was possible. Social ethics can be a more reliable counter to evil than individual heroism.

Issue no. 3174 published 21 April 2018

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