alt Hacker NewsA remarkable number of humans given really quite basic feedback will perform actions they know will very directly hurt or kill people.
There are a lot of critiques about quite how to interpret the results but in this context it’s pretty clear lots of humans can be at least coerced into doing something extremely unethical.
Start removing the harm one, two, three degrees and add personal incentives and is it that surprising if people violate ethical rules for kpis?
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> 2012, Australian psychologist Gina Perry investigated Milgram's data and writings and concluded that Milgram had manipulated the results, and that there was a "troubling mismatch between (published) descriptions of the experiment and evidence of what actually transpired." She wrote that "only half of the people who undertook the experiment fully believed it was real and of those, 66% disobeyed the experimenter".[29][30] She described her findings as "an unexpected outcome" that
Its unlikely Milligram played am unbiased role in, if not the sirext cause of the results.
> lots of humans can be at least coerced into doing something extremely unethical.
Experience shows coercion is not necessary most of the time, the siren call of money is all it takes.
Still > 0
Normalization of deviance also contributes towards unethical outcomes, where people would not have selected that outcome originally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance