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COLGATE4

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6. You're absolutely right. When empowered, otherwise

Reply to Cirque du So-What (Reply #5)

Sat Nov 2, 2013, 01:48 PM

Nov 2013

'normal' people can behave in extraordinarily abnormal ways. Years ago a psychologist (whose name I'm blocking right now) did a study separating a given class into two groups. One group was given power over the second. In the space of five days or so the group that was given power was actively abusing the other group of their classmates. Human nature sucks.

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