Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.
But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.
For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.
It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.
With numbing regularity, good people were seen to knuckle under the demands of authority and perform actions that were callous and severe,