Dennis Nilsen - following on from the drama Des

Milgram is about authority. About what people will do if they are told to.
I don't think it really has any relevance regarding Dennis Nilson.
Nilsons actions were not as a result of coercion. He was not acting as part of a mass of people.
Nilson is about extraordinary acts of an individual.
Milgram informs us about how populations can be coerced into terrible acts. It doesn't tell us anything about hitler.
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
Milgram is about authority. About what people will do if they are told to.
I don't think it really has any relevance regarding Dennis Nilson.
Nilsons actions were not as a result of coercion. He was not acting as part of a mass of people.
Nilson is about extraordinary acts of an individual.
Milgram informs us about how populations can be coerced into terrible acts. It doesn't tell us anything about hitler.
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If you look, you'll see that the Milgram link was in reply to one particular poster's question.
 
I really want to watch this but Iplayer won't work properly on my Android box. Must have been the last update. I just get sound and a frozen picture.
 
Yes there've been several similar ones since. Tells you something quite shocking about how easy it is to mislead most people
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
Fair enough. (y)
Fascinating experiment mind. Practically the only thing I remember from psychology lessons.
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Ha ha I did psychology a level yes some fascinating stuff out there isn’t there. Pavlov Bobo doll tabula rasa etc

Incidentally we went to see a live lecture from Hans Eysenck at Sheffield uni ( the who created the IQ test) and he was basically a Nazi.
 
zorro_mfc said:
Ha ha I did psychology a level yes some fascinating stuff out there isn’t there. Pavlov Bobo doll tabula rasa etc

Incidentally we went to see a live lecture from Hans Eysenck at Sheffield uni ( the who created the IQ test) and he was basically a Nazi.
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Ha! They took us to see him as well. We spent the day drinking in a pub instead. Education is wasted on the young.
 
John67 said:
He used to drink in a pub in Muswell Hill called the Spoons. So did I but years after his crimes and some of the locals said he seemed completely normal, loved his dog whom he brought with him and he was generally liked, obviously prior to the discovery of the bodies!! Have to say, in relation to the OP Question, that it didn’t really matter if he was sane and just plain evil or alternatively if it was insanity that drove him to do such awful things. He was always going to be convicted of murder as this was the way to ensure he would never be released. The Jury, or at least the majority of them, would have realised this.
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I can't believe the dog was put down because 'nobody would want a serial killers dog'. Why not just not tell them? Unbelievable
Her only 'crime' was being faithful to her owner
 
Great question. I read Killing for Company back in the day, a few years after the trial. At the time I thought he was totally mad but couldn't understand how he was so calm with his crimes. I still cant. These days the result would be different. I'm glad he died in jail, a non entity
 
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