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Compliant Tendencies "If a system of death camps were set up in the United States of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would be able to find sufficient personnel for those camps in any medium-sized American town (Milgram "The Perils of Obedience.")." In his 1963 study, The Perils of Obedience, Stanley Milgram showed us that we can be far too obedient and often times not even realize it. The conclusions Milgram comes to and the conclusions that the readers are prompted to realize on their own are disturbingly timeless and shocking, to say the least. Milgram's findings are also very general, as if over-obedience could be an ingrained, genetic aspect of human nature as well as a product of one's environment. In any event, these conclusions are immensely important when one is inclined to examine just exactly how we respond to terror and our leaders. Milgram demonstrated that...


