"Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy"
It is, and what can cause that absence?
Milgram wanted to measure the willingness of ordinary people to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience, specifically trying to understand the behavior of perpetrators during the Holocaust:
"Inspired by Hannah Arendt's report on the trial of Adolph Eichmann in Jerusalem, Milgram wondered whether her claims about "the banality of evil" " that evil acts can come from ordinary people following orders as they do their jobs " could be demonstrated in the lab.
Milgram staged meticulously designed sham experiments in which subjects were ordered to administer dangerous shocks to fellow volunteers (in reality, the other volunteers were confederates and the shocks were fake).
Contradicting the predictions of every expert he polled, Milgram found that more than seventy percent of the subjects administered what they thought might be fatal shocks to an innocent stranger.
Collectively known as The Milgram Experiment, this groundbreaking work demonstrated the human tendency to obey commands issued by an authority figure, and more generally, the tendency for behavior to be controlled more by the demands of the situation than by idiosyncratic traits of the person."
psychology.fas.harvard.edu
As long as DJT tells the Cult it's OK to persecute people and do them harm, the beatings will continue.
"Don't vote for DSA they might do what Trump is doing!"
- Turds