Popular YouTube comedian: It’s now our moral responsibility to disobey unjust mandates
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How far would you go to follow orders?’ asked Sears. He recalled a famous experiment showing that the majority of people would go ‘to almost any lengths’ to do so.
(LifeSiteNews) — A comedian known for thought-provoking satire delivered a powerful call on Monday to apply the lessons of the Milgram experiment on obedience and courage to today’s COVID mandates.
Popular YouTuber J.P. Sears, who has for the past two years devoted most of his skits to highlighting the absurdity of “authoritarian” COVID edicts and liberal and “woke” ideology, challenged listeners in a more serious recent video to disobey morally unjust orders imposed in the name of COVID.
He called to mind the many current-day global laws that “a lot of people seem pretty eager” to comply with: “Authorities telling us who can eat where, based on whether or not you’re carrying your papers; kids forced to wear masks in schools; people losing their jobs because they refuse to comply with authoritarian mandates.”
“How far would you go to follow orders? How much would you compromise of your own free will? Would you sacrifice what you knew was right, ignore your principles, your instinct, your heart and gut? What if someone in a position of authority demanded that you do something that you knew in your heart was wrong?” asked Sears.
Sears recalled that many “terrible, unconscionable” acts have been perpetrated throughout history, such as the mass murder of Jews under the Nazi regime, “all by people just following orders.”
“It’s easy to say, well, I wouldn’t do that. I would resist,” noted Sears. “But would you disobey a morally unjust order even if it meant personal sacrifice?”
Sears then described the “astonishing” Milgram Experiments on obedience to authority conducted in the 1960s that were designed to explain the “psychology of genocide.”
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