The Stanford Prison experiment and the Milgram experiment are frequently referenced as examples of how through the action of perceived authority people can be twisted to do evil. However, one can imagine similar experiments where the students were conditioned to acts of unusual kindness.
Three corollaries: 1) a saintly society is possible; 2) people in authority, in particular, political figures and news outlets, bear significant responsibility for the bad behavior of their followers; 3) we all bear a responsibility to proselytize goodness.
“Clinton has continued to occupy that same space for the better part of three decades now, a one-woman culture war who plays the political game the same way the men around her do. But unlike those men, Clinton is chided for being “disingenuous” and a “political insider.” Everyone else just gets to do their job.”
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Originally shared by Victor H
I do agree with the author of this article and have refrained from any attacks on HRC myself in order to make my choice for POTUS, Sanders, look better in comparison. His merits stand well on their own.
This girl has to be remembered and culture has to arrive to the ignorant, cruel and fanatic people who are able to become killers only to keep children’s abuse as an accepted way of life.
Cold War Syndrome: guns are made available for everyone, making everyone feels the need to get a gun.
In 2003 the Japanese went as far as to ban the ownership of swords (http://goo.gl/aicBdl). Needless to say that, during our days in Japan, we have never had the slightest reason to fear anything but the rain and a craving to buy silly stuff.
Dystopia turned up to 11: a method to supply child brides for the excess males resulting from the one child policy…
Originally shared by Ciro Villa
Chinese scientist claim to have achieved the necessary technology to clone humans
“The Chinese scientist behind the world’s biggest cloning factory has technology advanced enough to replicate humans, he told AFP, and is only holding off for fear of the public reaction.
Boyalife Group and its partners are building the giant plant in the northern Chinese port of Tianjin, where it is due to go into production within the next seven months and aims for an output of one million cloned cows a year by 2020.
But cattle are only the beginning of chief executive Xu Xiaochun’s ambitions.
In the factory pipeline are also thoroughbred racehorses, as well as pet and police dogs, specialised in searching and sniffing.
Boyalife is already working with its South Korean partner Sooam and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to improve primate cloning capacity to create better test animals for disease research.
And it is a short biological step from monkeys to humans—potentially raising a host of moral and ethical controversies.”
I’m very sorry to wax political, but unfortunately, the times seem to require it.
Originally shared by Rugger Ducky
This is Army of God’s website. Just now. If you’re confused who they are, they’re a violent anti-abortion Christian terrorist organization. They hid and protected Eric Rudolph through his years hiding from law enforcement.
I’ve had at least a dozen white Christian men tell me today there is no active hate machine determined to murder abortion providers. And certainly not in the name of their god.
Of course they’re all applauding yesterday’s murders.
Because they aren’t pro life. They aren’t Christians. They’re hateful people looking for any excuse to hate someone. And this gives them the twisted belief that they’re saving people.
You know idolization is going on when people start with their notion of perfection and project it onto their target to fill in all the blanks in their knowledge.
Reality:
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But on his home turf in Vermont, … gay rights advocates say Mr. Sanders was less than a leader, and not entirely present, on the issue.
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In 1996, his office explained that he voted against the Defense of Marriage Act because it infringed on states’ rights, traditionally a conservative argument.
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“I don’t think anybody thought about Bernie Sanders,” said Jan Backus, a state senator at the time who called Mr. Sanders “invisible on the issue.”
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But getting the state’s congressman to express his position on gay marriage was like “pulling teeth … from a rhinoceros,” wrote the Vermont publication Seven Days.
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Mr. Sanders was not “a real active participant in the fight” for civil rights, said David Moats, the author of “Civil Wars,” who won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorials on the issue in The Rutland Herald.
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When it came time for Mr. Sanders to speak, he deplored the demonization of gay people but complained that the virulent opposition to civil unions diverted attention from prescription drug costs, health care and other economic issues.
“There are a dozen other issues out there that are as important or more important as that issue,” he said.
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Asked in a debate against his Republican opponent whether the federal government should overturn laws on same-sex marriage, he argued that it was a states’ rights issue. When asked by a reporter whether Vermont should legalize same-sex marriage, he said, “Not right now, not after what we went through.”
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In 2009, the Vermont legislature overrode a governor’s veto and passed legislation that explicitly recognized same-sex marriages and extended more rights to same-sex couples. That year Mr. Sanders articulated his support for gay marriage.
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But as Mr. Sanders tells it, he was a champion on the issue for decades. “Twenty years have come and gone, and as the conservative Supreme Court said, everybody’s entitled to get marriage,” he said in the interview. “So what does it mean to be 19 years ahead of the curve?”
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Look, it was only recently that politicians could openly support same-sex marriage without shooting themselves in the foot, so this isn’t really about whether, all things being equal, he supported same-sex marriage. Even Obama had to pretend to “evolve” on the issue, and then only after Biden’s rainbow balloon was floated successfully.
The real issue is that Sanders is a real person, and a real politician, not some fucking leftist unicorn. When I speak with his supporters, I often feel that I’m comparing an actual human being in the form of Clinton with an imaginary idol named Sanders, and this disconnect from reality is unhealthy.
(Oh, and a shout-out to that asshole, +Ole Olsen, who’s done his level best to prop up the myth and hide the man. He’s the GOP’s best friend among progressives.)
