| Kasz216 said: , It's quite a lot of outrage for corporal punishment. Your acting as if the nurse was a nurse at Auschwitz or something. Which actually is a great example of just how far most people really would go under such circumstances. Most people are a lot more docile to authority then you'd think. You very likely aren't any different. This afterall was MUCH less then say what was portrayed in the Milgrim expierement. It's rather unfair to show such anger and rage at people when in reality you would likely act the same way.
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True, most people are willing to do terrible things when pushed in the right ways. Hell, most people are willing to become mass murderers under wartime.
But there are/were people who weren't like the most, like this man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arndt_Pekurinen
I don't know whether I'll be able to hold on to my principles as long as he did, and I'll probably be never really tested for those since Finland has a viable alternative to being drafted, but I'm sure as hell going to try.
EDIT: And as for the nurse - I don't consider her a monster. I consider her a medical professional who stood by and watched as a teenager was beaten by six adult men. As I said - americans might find it acceptable, it might be legal - hell, it might be encouraged. I disagree in the strongest way. Let's leave it at that.
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