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Post by Sierra on Mar 3, 2010 3:46:29 GMT -5
That is unbelievable. Children died in agony because their parents followed his books, and he's "laughing." Trying to distance himself from what he would call the misapplication of his teachings, is one thing. Acting like he doesn't even notice that there are dead and wounded children, is another thing entirely. I feel sick. Of all the disgusting hubris. His article reeks. The laugh of superiority that he sees echoing throughout his family is a surer sign than any of his utter lack of empathy or regard for human lives. This man is a sociopath. The idea of children spanking their dolls and laughing about being the 'best' people in the world is totally depraved - what child thinks like that? (I know that this is all rhetorical, but he seems to think this is how it's supposed to be.) Maybe they're all laughing, Pearl, because they know if they don't laugh, or look totally contented with their wretched lot, you'll come around and beat the daylights out of them again. Beating your children and your dogs with the same instrument says a lot about your regard for their humanity.
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Post by journey on Mar 3, 2010 11:54:08 GMT -5
Michael Pearl's Response...
That is astoundingly horrific.
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Post by tapati on Mar 18, 2010 11:30:33 GMT -5
An updated version of Milgram's experiment: www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1972981,00.html excerpt: ...The Game of Death, which airs on French television on Wednesday night. The documentary has generated a massive amount of attention — and naturally, courted controversy — because of the dilemma that the film's contestants face on a fake game show: Will they allow themselves to be cajoled into delivering near lethal electrical charges to fellow players, or follow their better instincts and refuse? The Game of Death is an adaptation of an infamous experiment conducted by a team led by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s. In order to test people's obedience to authority figures, the scientists demanded that subjects administer increasingly strong electric shocks to other participants if they answered questions incorrectly. The people delivering the shocks, however, didn't know that the charges were fake — the volunteers on the other end of the room were actors pretending to suffer agonizing pain. The point was to see how many people would continue following orders to mete out torture. Milgram found that 62.5% of his subjects could be encouraged, browbeaten or intimidated into seeing the test through to its conclusion by delivering scores of shocks of increasing intensity to the maximum of 450 volts. In The Game of Death, 81% of contestants go all the way by administering more than 20 shocks of up to a maximum of 460 volts. Only 16 of the 80 subjects recruited for the fake game show refuse the verbal prodding from the host — and pressure from the audience to keep dishing out the torture like a good sport — though most express misgivings or try to pull out before being persuaded otherwise.
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