"People still willing to torture"

From the BBC:

Decades after a notorious experiment, scientists have found test subjects are still willing to inflict pain on others - if told to by an authority figure...

This seems like a fair summary of our current system of government, where most powers have been passed up the chain to the EU, whose edicts then trickle down again via national governments and result in, e.g. local councils fining residents for putting the wrong type of waste in the wrong type of receptacle. On the basis of CCTV evidence.

UPDATE: Or tracking the movements of newspaper boys who "Other than not having the correct paperwork ... were working legally", via Harry Haddock.