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Why Obeying Orders Can Make Us Do Awful Things
NeuroImage, may help explain why people are able to commit immoral acts under coercion.History has repeatedly shown that when people obey orders from an authority, they are able to perform atrocious acts towards others. All the genocides that humankind has known, generally referred to as crimes of obedience, have shown that having a part of the population obeying orders to exterminate other human beings has led to the loss of countless lives, cultures and civilizations.“We wanted to understand why obeying orders impacts moral behavior so much.
