Obedience: A Reaction to Milgram

The experiment consisted of two people – a “learner” and a “teacher” – in which the learner had to memorize word pairs, and if the learner forgot the word’s pair, they were sho

The results of the experiment are astonishing. Obedience, for many people, is a deeply ingrained behavior tendency. Obedience is a potent impulse overriding training in ethics, sympathy, and moral conduct (Milgram 283). Being an evil agent, obedience controls us into conducting acts of which we would never imagine doing, but obedience is also an important factor in out day-to-day lives. We obey at the workplace, while driving, and even at home. If we would not obey, we would be considered arrogant, untoward, and rude in respect to our authorities (Milgram 294).

Obedience is an important factor in our lives and sometimes disobedience is necessary in certain circumstances. The test that Stanley Milgram conducted needed disobedience. Causing harm to another individual because you are told to is wrong. The Holocaust was wrong, and people were

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