Online:
Visits:
Stories:
Profile image
By Philosophers Stone
Contributor profile | More stories
Story Views

Now:
Last Hour:
Last 24 Hours:
Total:

The Power of the Uniform: Eye-Opening Experiment Shows How Easily People Submit

Wednesday, October 8, 2014 5:16
% of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents.

(Before It's News)

A man in a non-specific uniform gets strangers to litter, change how they walk, makes them jump in place, and even gets them to enact violence against others.

If a man in a uniform came up to you, gave you a taser, and told you to guard and detain another man who he claims is a criminal, would you? If that man tried to leave would you stop him or taser him?

In the video below, most of the people tested actually go to the extent of hurting another human being, who they’ve never met, simply because a man in a uniform told them to do so.

This unquestioning obedience to the state, regardless of morality, is a telltale sign of a police state. It is also the end result of decades of societal conditioning.

The costumed individual is obeyed, because this costume and shiny medal, is backed with the promise of violence. We’ve all been taught this from childhood.

What the uniform says is, “I belong to a very powerful group and if you do not do what I say, I can have my other friends come back here to kidnap you, lock you in a cage, or worse and no one will question me for it.”

In the video below take note as to how easily people submit to ridiculous commands given to them by the costumed man.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Ironically these same people who just, littered, enacted violence and degraded themselves will most likely claim that they live in a free society. Is a society that will blindly bow down and submit to the boot of corrupt authority, really free?

[Source]



Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/10/the-power-of-the-uniform-eye-opening-experiment-shows-how-easily-people-submit/

Report abuse

Comments

Your Comments
Question   Razz  Sad   Evil  Exclaim  Smile  Redface  Biggrin  Surprised  Eek   Confused   Cool  LOL   Mad   Twisted  Rolleyes   Wink  Idea  Arrow  Neutral  Cry   Mr. Green

Top Stories
Recent Stories

Register

Newsletter

Email this story
Email this story

If you really want to ban this commenter, please write down the reason:

If you really want to disable all recommended stories, click on OK button. After that, you will be redirect to your options page.