06-13-2005, 06:23 AM
Chaerophon,Jun 12 2005, 02:36 PM Wrote:Well put :) I too find their results to be a tad predetermined - everything will be alright, everyone will be fine, they know what they're in for... and you're a bad person for belieiving us seemingly trustworthy folks. Whose 'morals' (if that's the right word) were really put to the test here in the name of science is an open question.
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taking todays ethical standards and judging the very experiments that caused us to have these standards is inherantly off base. When they did these experiments the idea of ethics we have today didn't exist.
also when they did those experiments they expected certain results. that they got the results isn't what is suprising, what is suprising is the degree of the extremes. in the shock experiment they never thought people would go that far.
the real point of these experiments is that what we call morals or ethics isn't an inherant human quality, it is largely based on environment. subtle changes in environment can cause exponential changes in behavior and the total dissolution of what we call morals.