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The Shock Generator Experiment: Inhumane And Strange

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Inhumane and Strange Obedience, something you should wish for from your dog but not another human being. The shock generator experiment is almost Nazi like. It was not administered properly and most would say dangerous and inhumane. We, people on earth, have been given orders for as long as we can remember, but is it fear that makes us obedient? Mental health and psychical evaluations are needed in an experiment like this for the safety of the subjects and learners involved. Not properly explaining what exactly the experiment is, letting people back out or end it when the shocks have been administrated could produce a fatal ending. The subjects administering the shocks could be sadists

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