[Husker] What about McQuery?

[Scott Stewart]

Tim,

I don't think many people argue with your assessment of what MM should have
done. He witnessed a horrific action.

Where I differ from you is in your judgment of his actions. Social
psychology has proved repeatedly that people overestimate what they would
do in a situation and underestimate the power of the situation. These
studies date back to the classic Milgram study (1963, Journal of Abnormal
and Social Psychology). Milgram wondered, as many did, why the Nazi's were
able to get "normal people" to do horrendous acts. He did a study to see
how far someone would go in punishing/torturing a person just because they
were told to do so. He wasn't even their boss. He found that 65 percent of
subjects would shock a man past a point of unconsciousness and beyond a
lethal point...just because they were told to do so by a guy in a lab coat.
He wasn't even their boss. I bet prior to the study none of the subjects
thought they would do that, and in fact the researchers only thought 1 or 2
percent might. This phenomena has been replicated so often that it is a
cornerstone of social psychology.

Because of this it is easy to say what we would do in a situation, but very
hard to predict what will actually be done. I don't know you, and I can't
predict what you would do; however, I do know the statistical research
isn't in mine or your favor.

Scott

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Tim Silvey <tjsilvey at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Finally a logical response to what MM should have done! The people that
> think MM did nothing wrong disgust me. I am glad they are not in the
> military defending our freedom.
>
>
> "Not the victory but the action.
>   Not the goal but the game.
>    In the deed the glory."
>
>
> --- On Tue, 7/17/12, James Moreau <mohskr at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > From: James Moreau <mohskr at comcast.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Husker] What about McQuery?
> > To: husker at tssi.com
> > Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 8:48 PM
> > This whole thing still makes me
> > sick.  I know that when this incident came out during
> > the season, my brother and I had a conversation with his
> > son, who was a starting WR for his HS football team, what
> > his coach would have done if his coach had witnessed someone
> > interacting with a kid in the showers that appeared sexual
> > in nature.  His son said that his coach made the
> > comment that he would have pulled the old man off of the boy
> > and the old man would have "slipped" multiple times in the
> > shower, perhaps falling on his head a few dozen times as he
> > tried to get up, and might have ended up drowning after
> > "slipping" that many times.
> >
> > Both my brother and I thought the same thing.  Here you
> > have a young grad assistant that was a pretty athletic
> > looking kid, witnessing an old man (Jerry), sexually
> > assaulting an underage kid and you don't go in and physical
> > assist the young boy?  Seems to me, I don't care if it
> > would have cost me my job in that case, JS would have been
> > beaten pretty badly.  Am I advocating assault, in that
> > case, yes.  Used to be we took care of people like that
> > and now people are too worried about how they'd be perceived
> > or someone suing them.
> >
> > I'm glad that my nephew's coach would have done what myself
> > and my brother would have done if we were in the position of
> > McQuery.
> >
> > James Moreau
> >
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