PhilGoetz comments on Study: Encouraging Obedience Considered Harmful - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 16 May 2010 04:56:09AM *  5 points [-]

My mom grew up in Nazi Germany. She said that people then thought obedience was the most important thing in a child, even before the Nazis.

But I wouldn't infer from studies of Nazi Germany that we emphasize obedience too much, enough, or too little, today.

PS - Sample size?