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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4632132" data-attributes="member: 19675">The obvious example of the Nazis at Nuremburg (who "just followed orders") springs to mind.  When some soldiers openly rebelled against inhumane orders, they shared the same fate as the Jews they were defending.  The rest...they followed orders not for the greater good, but because, in many cases, they didn't want to be shot by a commanding officer.  For them, choosing order supplanted normal concerns of good and evil.Less charged an example are mercenaries who follow orders to fight or not based on who pays their fees.  "Its just a job."There are also studies, like the Stanford experiment ( <a href="http://www.prisonexp.org/" target="_blank">The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment</a> ) and the Milgram experiment ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment" target="_blank">Milgram experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a> ) that show that people will follow laws and rules even though they may think that what they are doing isn't good, or will even ignore implications of good & evil.And if you've ever been to some of the bigger political riots in the US, you'd know that some of those participating in the worst of the violence and mayhem were there just to commit acts of violence and mayhem...and then others just joined in, heedless of the consequences or implications of their acts.  Impromptu lynch mobs don't act as they do because everyone in the group wants to, but because of a gradual buildup in negative attitudes towards the potential victim that eventually reaches a climax that is released in directed violence.  That, my friend, is chaos.</blockquote>

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