Row over 'torture' on French TV

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8573755.stm

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A disturbing French TV documentary has tried to demonstrate how well-meaning people can be manipulated into becoming torturers or even executioners.
The hugely controversial Game of Death was broadcast in prime-time on a major terrestrial channel, France 2, on Wednesday.
It showed 80 people taking part in what they thought was a game show pilot.
As it was only a trial, they were told they wouldn't win anything, but they were given a nominal 40 euro fee.
Before the show, they signed contracts agreeing to inflict electric shocks on other contestants.

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DrPot  
Created by DrPot on 18 March 2010

DrPot's thoughts:

Old hat experiment done many times inc. BBC1 last year. A classic psychological research paper and the phenomenon is fairly well understood and observed in many awful incidents around the world before and since. So really, this is a furore about something we all know about - the ability for a lot of people to do awful things to each other on command in in the right environment.

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