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Human nature?

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I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

Dwight Towers has a fascinating post comparing the results of the famous Milgram experiements (in which people were alarming willing to inflict suffering on others at the behest of authority) with other work and stories demonstrating a quite different aspect of human nature. Lots of food for thought.

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