McDonald theory Flashcards
Why McDonald’s
To obey authority the person must see it a legimate or legal.
Example- McDonald’s
McDonald’s incident in 1966
What happened? McDonald’s
The manager of McDonald’s got a phone call stating that he was the police and that he had noticed that a employee was after committing a horrible crime and that he wanted her to be summonsed immediately into the office but he was very busy and wanted the manageress to interograte the employee to help him save time, he first started by just Asking her to interrogate her and then moved into asking them to do awful crimes to the young women including strip searching her, abusing and assaulting her and checking her internally for drug smuggling (anus and vagina). The women during this time had to go back out to work so she got her fiancé to come in and finish off the interogrstiin it was only when the cleaner noticed something wasn’t right he stepped in and stopped it.
Result McDonald’s
Both claimed to be only following up on the requests and trying to follow that. This is known as obedience alibi making.
Obedience alibi making- McDonald’s
Mandel 1998.
Provided an alibi for those charged with war crimes it implies that a ordinary person committed a terrible crime act under pressure.
It’s related back to adolf eichmann theory on crime against humanity in nazi Germany. He said he only carried out the trails as he was following orders.
