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40: Introducing The Portal Essay Club - What if everyone is simply insane?

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The Importance of Truth in Life and Death

A naive reading of the Milgram, Ash, and Zimbardo experiments would tell us that the generic person in our society is willing to lie. The reason we refer to these communications from hostage takers as hostage videos is to let people know that when people are in life and death circumstances, they frequently lie. They will go back on the truth in order to be fit to have a hope of saving themselves.

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