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'Torture' game show stirs controversy - 3/17/2010 1:30:39 PM

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French game show toys with death

By Jamey Keaten, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Christophe Nick, TV producer of "The Game of Death," which is set to air Wednesday, talks to reporters Wednesday March 17, 2010 in Paris. (AP/Chrsitophe Ena)

Reality TV lures players into sadistic game

PARIS — A state-run TV channel is stirring controversy with a documentary about a fake game show in which credulous participants obey orders to deliver increasingly powerful electric shocks to a man, who is really an actor, until he appears to die ....more........

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/03/17/13263021-ap.html

*if you are unfamiliar with Milgram's experiment: http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Original-Milgram-Experiment-1961

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RE: 'Torture' game show stirs controversy - 3/18/2010 2:53:38 AM

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This variation is good lol , in regards to authority, and I have seen Darren Brown's other vids but I wonder if this can acutally be done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOEKdaXIEHc&feature=related

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RE: 'Torture' game show stirs controversy - 3/18/2010 8:06:41 AM

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This variation is good lol , in regards to authority, and I have seen Darren Brown's other vids but I wonder if this can acutally be done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOEKdaXIEHc&feature=related

Not too surprising. I wonder if there weren't at least one or two 'instigators' in the audience, raising their hands to set off the larger reaction.

Some of the comments under the vid are interesting as well.

I think the show Idea would work. People love watching xsports, beating the living crap out each other and themselves, or taking risks a lot of people might not take... and who doesn't love hangin round a good train wreck.

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RE: 'Torture' game show stirs controversy - 3/18/2010 8:50:45 AM

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Yeah like that Jason wats his name movie and the older one with Arnie.

People would be into it. The public loves blood. How far we've come from the Romans tossing Christians into the mouthes of lions.

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RE: 'Torture' game show stirs controversy - 3/18/2010 10:07:59 AM

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In the 50's I think there were psychological experiments done with a similar theme

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RE: 'Torture' game show stirs controversy - 3/18/2010 10:08:59 AM

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lol liz, see my link above..err I posted the origional Milgram sociology experiment.

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RE: 'Torture' game show stirs controversy - 3/18/2010 10:15:00 AM

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woohoo thanks :) Id been trying to remember the name of the damn thing!

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RE: 'Torture' game show stirs controversy - 3/18/2010 10:31:43 AM

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lol it is hard to find Lizbeth, most sites block the entire vid. and yw.

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RE: 'Torture' game show stirs controversy - 3/18/2010 3:20:20 PM

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woohoo thanks :) Id been trying to remember the name of the damn thing!

The Milgram Experiment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

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RE: 'Torture' game show stirs controversy - 3/18/2010 3:36:52 PM

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Yeah like that Jason wats his name movie and the older one with Arnie.

People would be into it. The public loves blood. How far we've come from the Romans tossing Christians into the mouthes of lions.

No, we can't do that now. P.E.T.A. would get pissed off, and my god they're a bunch of whiny bastards.

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