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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 29 Jul 2015

    Are We All Potentially Evil? @michaelshermer reviews A New Film Based on the Stanford Prison Experimenthttp://huff.to/1U2LBOG 

    12:00 PM - 29 Jul 2015
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      2. Chris Cocking #FBPE‏ @DrChrisCocking 29 Jul 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker Zimbardo created roles that guards then fulfilled in #SPE. See http://www.bbcprisonstudy.org/  4 alternative studypic.twitter.com/0Ag1cxtVgP

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      1. Dr Vegan‏ @VeganiaA 29 Jul 2015
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        .@sapinker: Are We All Potentially Evil? Yes, as @michaelshermer infers. Especially if, in the 21st century, we're not #vegan. #speciesism

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      1. Stevekay‏ @stevenkazariant 29 Jul 2015
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        @sapinker @michaelshermer @JohnnyVongg

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      2. Innenleer Zerstört H‏ @innenleer 29 Jul 2015
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        @sapinker @michaelshermer To justify their totally-surveillance they built up?? And to justify their police-brutality the US-REGIME ordered?

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      3. Zack Taylor‏ @Zacherydtaylor 1 Aug 2015
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        @innenleer @sapinker @michaelshermer Experiments done to do opposite of what they claim gain obedience &indoctrinate http://zacherydtaylor.blogspot.com/2015/03/philip-zimbardo-lucifer-effect-stanford.html …

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      4. Innenleer Zerstört H‏ @innenleer 1 Aug 2015
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        @Zacherydtaylor @sapinker @michaelshermer A little bit like the metaphor in THEY LIVE with Roddy Piper

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      1. Zack Taylor‏ @Zacherydtaylor 31 Jul 2015
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        @sapinker @michaelshermer This experiment was done for boot camp indoctrination purposes financed by ONR http://zacherydtaylor.blogspot.com/2015/05/american-psychological-association.html …

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      1. psy..faizah ❀‏ @faizah_aljohany 30 Jul 2015
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        @sapinker I liked this partpic.twitter.com/7ZOqRn8b3G

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      1. Steven Dragicevic‏ @Portvilla101 29 Jul 2015
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        @sapinker @michaelshermer I think you're almost ready to read Nietzsche now! Particularly beyond good and evil + watch the anime akira! Gj!

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      1. Innenleer Zerstört H‏ @innenleer 29 Jul 2015
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        @sapinker @michaelshermer Everybody is evil and criminal without your upper 10%...is that the message your US-REGIME try to suggest??

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      1. PolishAtheist‏ @ZKomala 29 Jul 2015
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        @sapinker @michaelshermer Being evil there is one of possible behaviors. If something is possible it will happen-known rule.

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      1. Игopь Кoндpaшoв‏ @I_Kond 29 Jul 2015
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        @sapinker @michaelshermer @OksanaBoyko_RT Maybe we just behave differently under society pressure? We saw it Germany,Russia and China

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      1. Trash Panda‏ @standardheart 29 Jul 2015
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        @sapinker @jchjackson @michaelshermer yes.

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      1. Brian Robertson‏ @BrianCorvid 29 Jul 2015
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        @sapinker @michaelshermer Yes. Tis a tad sterile an argument, we've accepted long ago that there ain't no tabula Rasa. Lets move on.

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      1. Sally Jo‏ @Sallyjoagain 29 Jul 2015
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        @sapinker @michaelshermer yes

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