When given an order from a superior, the average person will follow the order no matter how unethical or criminal that act might be. Many examples have been given to how obedience has taken a major part in completing tasks when people shouldn’t: From the Nazi Regime, getting into a fight in school to purposely hitting the batter in baseball with a pitch. Every Nazi followed every order to “better” the order as a whole, even if it meant abusing and murdering numerous victims who weren’t Anglo-Saxons. Fights in school are usually started when an individual insults another individual. Because of his/her obedience towards defending his/her honor (family, friends, etc.) the fight starts even though most of the time neithe

Overall this experiment made a drastic change in how we treat people and how we have to care about the little man in how he has a life too and that we shouldn’t abuse our power to personally benefit from it. Obedience can be effective if used appropriately but if used to do the unethical thing it can go from production to destruction.

The ethical costs of this experiment towards the individuals that participated do not outweigh the benefits of the overall outcome of the experiment. From what I saw in this experiment, the after effects of the participants didn’t have a drastic effect on all of them. A few disagreed with the experiment, and I’m think it could have a scarring effect on them. But in some instances, the misfortune of few can help so many. So my stand is that the message derived from this experiment is more beneficial then the bad luck of few.

This happens so often in our society: completing a task you don’t prefer to do, because the respectable authority told you to do so. There’s so many tasks I wish I hadn’t done. Mostly, the instances where I wish I hadn’t done what I was told was in sports. When I played football, I was told to be a cheap shot by some coaches, mostly because its what they did when they played football way back when. The one time I felt awful was in our rival game my senior year. The running back had the ball and someone had wrapped up his ankles so he couldn’t move on. I was on defense and all I saw was this guys lower back. My father who used to be very good at football told me to make the huge hits and even “spear” the guy if I could. “Spearing” is a type of tackle where you dive at the guy head first and hit him with nothing but your facemask. This is probably the worst way to get hit, which is why its very illegal. But I went against the rules because a “legitimate authority” told me to do so. So I ran at this guy and just completely took him out. Everyone on the field was so puzzled to what happened because it went so fast. The running back was on the ground in pain and no penalty was given. The running back got injured and had to leave the game. At the time, I felt a sense of satisfaction because I had completed my task and all my teammates were excited for me because I made the huge hit. After the game, however I felt sick to my stomach. I wanted to celebrate our big victory, but I couldn’t because all I was thinking about was the guy I took out. I responded the same as the people in the experiment: shaking, sweating and nervously laughing. I guess that’s just the pattern of abused obedience.

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