debate about authority
debate
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1. Thank you Mr. speaker and thank you judge.
2. From the resolution “We should question authority” the following parts are vague: “we”, “question” and “authority”. By we I mean all people, by question I mean to think rationally about it and by authority I mean anybody who has to power to give us orders. Unfortunately in everyday live a lot of people follow orders blindly leading to dangerous situations.
3. Therefore I made the following case: “We should think rationally before following orders from the authority”.
Points:
1st point
1. My first point is “danger”.
2. A lot of people have bad intentions; following their orders can lead to deathly consequences. This is what happens in wars where one person has come to get a lot of authority and thousands or even millions of people kill for him. An example of this would be the Second World War where more then 70 million persons were killed. Here the followers intentionally killed people but Milgram’s experiment proves that people might also kill others unintentionally by following authority. In his experiment people had to give shocks to another person, who was actually an actor, whenever this person failed to answer a question correctly. The voltage of the shock would increase with every wrong answer. 65% continued giving shocks until the end, giving the actor a deathly shock while they have been seeing him screaming from the pain and getting sicker and sicker with every shock. Variations of the experiment show that the more authority the experimenter seems to have, the more people follow his orders.
3. Since we all want to avoid dangerous situations or the death of innocent people we should think rationally before following orders from authority.
4. Looking back at the experiment I talked about before, just think that even you would probably kill somebody if authority told you to.
2nd point
1. My second point is about mistakes.
2. People with authority are also just human beings and
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1. Thank you Mr. speaker and thank you judge.
2. From the resolution “We should question authority” the following parts are vague: “we”, “question” and “authority”. By we I mean all people, by question I mean to think rationally about it and by authority I mean anybody who has to power to give us orders. Unfortunately in everyday live a lot of people follow orders blindly leading to dangerous situations.
3. Therefore I made the following case: “We should think rationally before following orders from the authority”.
Points:
1st point
1. My first point is “danger”.
2. A lot of people have bad intentions; following their orders can lead to deathly consequences. This is what happens in wars where one person has come to get a lot of authority and thousands or even millions of people kill for him. An example of this would be the Second World War where more then 70 million persons were killed. Here the followers intentionally killed people but Milgram’s experiment proves that people might also kill others unintentionally by following authority. In his experiment people had to give shocks to another person, who was actually an actor, whenever this person failed to answer a question correctly. The voltage of the shock would increase with every wrong answer. 65% continued giving shocks until the end, giving the actor a deathly shock while they have been seeing him screaming from the pain and getting sicker and sicker with every shock. Variations of the experiment show that the more authority the experimenter seems to have, the more people follow his orders.
3. Since we all want to avoid dangerous situations or the death of innocent people we should think rationally before following orders from authority.
4. Looking back at the experiment I talked about before, just think that even you would probably kill somebody if authority told you to.
2nd point
1. My second point is about mistakes.
2. People with authority are also just human beings and