The "Obedience Requires Cruel People" Error
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It is an error to conclude that Milgram's obedient participants were unusually cruel or unusually compliant individuals.
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Participants showed visible distress throughout, protested repeatedly, and continued anyway.
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The finding is about the situation's power over ordinary people. Reading it as a claim about bad individuals inverts it.