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tclambert

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1. Quiet, calm people can do great harm, and know they are doing wrong, but do it anyway, because

Reply to Lars77 (Original post)

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 06:33 AM

Jul 2012

they're afraid to stand up to the group, or to the boss. If the boss or the group turns against them, the lone bureaucrat could become the target of the corporate steamroller. They know the machine has no loyalty to them, but loyalty to the machine is their only defense.

This is an understudied area of psychology: How do you get people to do what they know is wrong?

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Quiet, calm people can do great harm, and know they are doing wrong, but do it anyway, because tclambert Jul 2012 #1

Interesting. I've used the "banality of evil" argument myself... JHB Jul 2012 #2

fact is that most people are complicit in some kind of evil, and the higher you go in an organi- HiPointDem Jul 2012 #3

the new management class 90-percent Jul 2012 #4

Just read it 90-percent Jul 2012 #5

Terrifying, Troubling, True. hedda_foil Jul 2012 #6