re: #286 LudwigVanQuixote

I know what the Milgram Experiment was. I am confident I would recognize such an experiment if someone tried to put me in one. So I would refuse for sure in that case.

But the real question is, are there cases where obedience to authority could cause me to break with my conscience?
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The other thing is that I honestly worry about the possibility of failing such a test if it materialized for real. I don’t think people who are likely to fail, worry about not failing.

Please Hashem none of us ever faces such a test for real.

This is partly the philosophical problem of moral luck— a very counterintuitive and disturbing concept.
Some people have bad moral luck: they’re faced with choices and situations others are not. And some have good moral luck: they never find themselves in the sort of situation that would provide the same test of character.
So the philosophical question is: can one assign praise and blame to another on the basis of his moral luck? —