The treatment of the participants in the study raised as much criticism as the results the study generate. Was it ethical to mislead them into believing that they were really inflicting pain on the learners ? Why ?

Indulgences were a way of tricking catholics into giving the church money. johan tetzel was preying on the citizens of germany by making them think that the purchase of papal indulgences was legitimate, and necessary. they demoralized the catholic church, as well as the catholic people. indulgences taught that in order to achieve salvation one did not have to be good, he simply must have the money to buy an indulgence.

He educates the people on the true conditions on how the poor people are actually living. he brings up death tolls, gruesome images, and the true state of the apartment buildings