The following story leaves me with no choice but to ask the question: “What the h_ll is wrong with these people?”

In a Bizarro world-like experiment disguised as a French TV show called The Game of Death, contestants repeat the Yale torturer/electrocution experiments of the 1960’s, unaware that it is an experiment in seeing how far people will go in obeying an authority figure. In this case, the authority figure is a glitzy game show host. No desert drab, machine guns, or other threatening presences compel contestants to comply. The plan: Contestants are instructed to zap Game of Death players with an electric shock when they answer incorrectly. The shocks are fake, as are the responses of the actor/players when the shock is administered. But contestants don’t know that. As the voltage gets higher, the host insists that Contestants follow the rules, ratchet up the juice, and continue responding to wrong answers with electric jolts. Actor/players scream in pain, pass out, and in at least one instance appear to die as a result of the lethal 460 volt electric shock that is finally applied.

Of 80 contestants, only 16 walked away from the freakish ‘show’ and refused to cooperate. One ‘stayer’ even had relatives tortured by the Nazis. She or he didn’t want to hurt the player, but elected not to spoil the show by stopping. Thus WTHIWWTP???!!!!