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we just made you kill somebody. And that's a serious ethical criticism.
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Historians and sociologists have brought in things back to the questions
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that Milgram was interested in and argue-- and this is controversial--
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the extent to which obedience really is a good model for acts of genocide.
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So, just to take one example among many,
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Goldhagen argued that the participants in Nazi Germany
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and in the Holocaust were actually not people
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who were obediently following orders but rather were enthusiastic,
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people who volunteered to do it.
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Still Milgram's work is interesting in many-- for many reasons,
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in large part because he provides an illustration of the perfect situation
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for getting somebody to do a terrible thing