The My Lai Massacre: a Crime of Obedience? (From Crimes

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The My Lai Massacre: A Crime of Obedience? (from Crimes of Obedience: Toward a Social Psychology of Authority and Responsibility) HERBERT
-Kelman and Hamilton explain why so many people are willing to plot, participate in, and condone mass killings by emphasizing all of the following EXCEPT:

• A) authorization-ceding responsibility because one received instruction "from above"
• B) anger and the desire for revenge, both of which result from and inflame moral outrage
• C) routinization-the "normalization" of the behaviors required to carry out an immoral act
• D) dehumanization-regarding the object of attack as less than human or without value
• 6) Telling the Truth About Damned Lies and Statistics JOEL BEST

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