The Milgram Experiments: Obedience Or Defiance?

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This was the first time I’ve seen the Milgram Experiments and they are extremely interesting. They are a series of tests that do not test the subject, but rather the administrator. When will the test administrator’s conscience say no to willingly hurting another, aside from being told by an authority figure to continue. What must happen in order for someone to take themselves out of an experience and asses what is going on. A huge question of mine has always been when is enough, enough? The Milgram Experiments test that very question. Will a person who is being instructed to inflict pain on another dehumanize it and see it as a simple task, or as another human being. Will they question the task at hand, or commence as if it was nothing out…show more content…
The very thing that makes us human is our choice to act or not act, our ability to question, examine and decide. But what happens when the responsibilities of choosing to or not to are placed on another and the persons own ability to choose remains dormant or suppressed due to abiding by another’s standards which have been put forth. What humanly instincts are recessive or dominant, what overcomes the other? Obedience or Defiance? I. We have become a society that focuses so much on producing, and the end product that we have become so unaware of the means necessary to attain the end result. Suppressing our own judgment to think; that people have become so blind to their ignorance, and try to use “it must be done, to achieve a greater goal” as an excuse for being ignorant without even knowingly being ignorant. It has become a second nature of ours. How many people must be tested, how many tests must take place, and how much does someone endure for someone to object and say no. Will a person accept it, as a necessity, or will a person question it? The Milgram Experiments go beyond looking at a whole, but rather examining an individual and holding that person responsible for their

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