[-] Thepolack@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Well yes and no. You can say that it's just the people in any experiment but past a certain point you have to be able to extrapolate the results to the population at large. And (again, if memory serves) the results of this experiment have been replicated numerous times across numerous population samples.

Also, the point of Milgram isn't that people are fucked up, it's that people will follow orders when those orders are issued by someone in a perceived position of authority. And it's funny you mention Nazis because the experiment was Milgram's response to the "I was just following orders" defence from the Nuremberg trials.

In conclusion: non-fucked-up people will do fucked up things if their boss tells them to.

[-] Thepolack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Your argument is really "Indian isn't a race"?

[-] Thepolack@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah the stuff on the knife is scales, but the silver on the fish is just the skin. The scales are attached to that.

I'd be really surprised if you're finding any fish in big supermarkets that still have scales, even on a whole fish but particularly on a fillet.

You will typically find skin on or skin off fillets, and depending on the fish recipes might instruct to cook them skin side down so you can have a nice crispy texture alongside the softer flesh.

[-] Thepolack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

EDIT: I understand your point by the way. Is it ethical to pirate things? Maybe or maybe not, but I think the stance of most people here is that pirating stuff that is produced by giant, obscenely wealthy media conglomerates is generally okay.

[-] Thepolack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You are discussing piracy in the context of media and copyright infringement, in which the owner of the pirated material is a corporation and the pirate is an actual person.

By comparing the act of pirating corporate owned digital material to a fictional scenario in which one person is copying another person's physical possessions very much implies that you see the corporate owners of digital material as people.

EDIT: I understand your point by the way. Is it ethical to pirate things? Maybe or maybe not, but I think the stance of most people here is that pirating stuff that is produced by giant, obscenely wealthy media conglomerates is generally okay.

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