Issue 11: Do Milgram’s Obedience Experiments Help Explain the Nature of the Holocaust?

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Issue 11: Do Milgram’s Obedience Experiment Help Explain the Nature of the Holocaust? Yes, I agree that Milgram’s Obedience Experiment helps explain the nature of the Holocaust. In Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, he had people believe they would give an electrical shock to the other person in the other side of the room if they got the question wrong not knowing the shocks were not real. As the experiment began and they were using the electrical shocks on the ones that got the answers wrong they did not stop to think, “wow what am I doing?”, instead they continue just thinking of the money they were going to get paid if they completed the experiment. This experiment shows and proves that people will do anything for money even if it means hurting innocent people like what happened in the Holocaust. I decided to agree with John P. Sabini and Maury Silver because they give good points and proven facts using Milgram’s Obedience Experiment to back them up. They show you how people will follow the rules and do what they are told, even though they are hurting someone just like in the Holocaust. Many German soldiers would hurt and kill Jews because they were just following orders and getting paid to do so not thinking they were hurting innocent families. “In both cases the evil they did was not intended; it was perhaps easy to “feel” that the evil was not their doing, to feel that it had an accidental quality.” (p. 233) many of the people that participated in the experiment and the German soldiers that participated in the Holocaust believe that they are not responsible for what happened they were just following orders and doing what they were told to do. This shows how people do what they are told not thinking of the consequences of their actions.
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