MOTR wrote on Mar 18
th, 2012 at 8:58am:
Kony is not a beat up. He is a real criminal who needs to be brought to justice. I haven't come across anyone who doesn't accept that. The question I'd like answered is how?
Of course you haven’t met someone who doesn’t agree.
It’s a social trend, there are very basic studies which show 90% of a crowd will follow or do something for no reason other than that other people are doing it.
It’s not a choice it’s actually a forced reaction for most people.
People don’t want to be left out or seem weird, goes back to very simple evolutionary principles.
The people who take a step back and actually evaluate the situation properly and review the facts from both sides of the story will probably not support kony 2012.
Quote:Conformity is changing one's behavior because of perceived pressure. Solomon Asch conducted a famous study on conformity in which seven subjects were asked to judge line lengths. Six of the subjects were confederates of the experimenter and gave wrong responses, and on many occasions, the real subject conformed and also gave wrong responses.
In Stanley Milgram's well-known study of obedience to authority, subjects were told that they were assisting in a learning experiment and were ordered to give other subjects (confederates of the experimenter) shocks when they made an incorrect response. Although shocks were not actually given, the real subjects were told that shock intensity increased as the experiment progressed. To the amazement of all, all the subjects (supposedly assisting the experimenter), even though they became agitated, continued to obey the experimenter and to administer shocks even at shock intensities they believed to be 300 volts. At that time, the supposed learner pounded the wall as though in pain, and 22% of the subjects refused to continue. Others, however, did continue and increased the intensity to 450 volts.
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