Reply #2: here ya go . . .

[OneBlueSky]

Hillsdale College Commencement Address
Lay Your Hammer Down
Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D., President
The Heritage Foundation
Hillsdale College Hillsdale, Michigan Saturday, May 8, 2004

http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/speech050804.cfm

In 1969 a Stanford University psychologist named Philip Zimbardo set up an experiment. He arranged for two cars to be abandoned — one on the mean streets of the Bronx, New York; the other in an affluent neighborhood near Stanford in Palo Alto, California. The license plates had been removed, and the hoods were left open. Zimbardo wanted to see what would happen to the cars.

In the Bronx, he soon found out. Ten minutes after the car was abandoned, people began stealing parts from it. Within three days the car was stripped. When there was nothing useful left to take, people smashed windows and ripped out upholstery, until the car was trashed.

In Palo Alto, something quite different happened: nothing. For more than a week the car sat there unmolested. Zimbardo was puzzled, but he had a hunch about human nature. To test it, he went out and, in full view of everyone, took a sledgehammer and smashed part of the car.

Soon, passersby were taking turns with the hammer, delivering blow after satisfying blow. Within a few hours, the vehicle was resting on its roof, demolished.

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http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/speech050804.cfm