Why sometimes Humans are worse than animal?

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How come these ppl who call themselves humans comitted such things heartlessly?

Most of these systems work because society is structured in which citizens are expected to trust their authority figures. In this way, the person being ordered to say, kill someone, feels little responsibility in their actions since they're just "following orders."

One of the more famous psychology tests involves what level of pain you'll inflict on someone if an authority figure is commanding you to. A majority of the people involved in the experiment ended up inflicting (what would be) lethal shocks, even though the actor posing as the person being shocked would be yelling "let me out of here!" or "I have a heart condition, stop!" This is because A) the person administering the shocks couldn't see the person they were shocking, and B) the person "in charge" of the experiment was telling them to continue even if the person being shocked was protesting. You can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

The results:

"He found that the percentage of participants who are prepared to inflict fatal voltages remains remarkably constant, between 61% and 66%, regardless of time or location (a popular account of Blass' results was published in Psychology Today, March/April 2002)."

And this number stays pretty constant, regardless of what country or government you live in. This means over half of the population of the world is willing to kill someone when an authority figure tells them to, period.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by LeHah

Douglas MacArthur, possibly the greatest fighting general of the 20th century, wanted to outlaw war.

He also wanted to invade and destroy China during the Korean conflict, which thankfully didn't happen.

Originally Posted by a lurker

It's really simple, the atrocities people visit on other people are done so because, for whatever reason, the groups do not view each other as quite human.

That's a good point. Usually groups, like Nazi's, dehumanized Jews and homosexuals in order to convince the population that it was OK to hate them. Same for slavery, blacks weren't viewed as "fully" human either.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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And what I'm refering to was after he was stripped of command. Whats your point?

That it isn't a good example for human achievement, because it was a case of talking the talking but not walking the walking. It's like repenting to Jesus on your deathbed after living your life as an atheist.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.