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Many people argue that human are naturally cruel while some say no one is born with cruelty in them. After reading “The Perils of Obedience”, The Kitty Genovese Case”, and Darley and Latane’s experiments, I realized that humans acts based upon the situation and people around them in a case of emergency. Humans sometimes get confused on whether they should care about the crises or others will take care of it.
“The Perils of Obedience” was an experiment done by Stanley Milgram concentrating on the conflict between obedience to the authority and individual’s self. Milgram created a threatening shock generator with starting level of 30 volts and expanding up to 450 volts. The experiment was set up with having an experimenter, a participant who was the subject, and a confederate pretending to be a volunteer. The teachers were told to ask questions from the learners and every time they gave a wrong answer, an electric shock was given and was increased 15 volt on each wrong answer. As the experiment advanced, the participants heard the learners argue to be discharged and complained about their heart condition. The subjects in this experiment were not aware of what Milgram is testing them for. Each participants had different reaction to leaners’ pled. Fred Prozi began the experiment calmly but becomes increasingly tense as the experiment proceeds. He was shaking his head saying “who is going to take the responsibility if anything happens to that gentleman?”(Milgram 4). Prozi was fearing the responsibility of something happening to the learner. Inside him, he did not wanted to hurt the learner. He was afraid of declining to keep the experiment going on because he was expected to continuo by the experimenter. A medical technician named Gretchen Brandt, refused to go any further after 210 volts. She said that she was there on her own free will also didn't want to take the responsibility. She was being who she was in reality and was brave enough to decline the process no
“The Perils of Obedience” was an experiment done by Stanley Milgram concentrating on the conflict between obedience to the authority and individual’s self. Milgram created a threatening shock generator with starting level of 30 volts and expanding up to 450 volts. The experiment was set up with having an experimenter, a participant who was the subject, and a confederate pretending to be a volunteer. The teachers were told to ask questions from the learners and every time they gave a wrong answer, an electric shock was given and was increased 15 volt on each wrong answer. As the experiment advanced, the participants heard the learners argue to be discharged and complained about their heart condition. The subjects in this experiment were not aware of what Milgram is testing them for. Each participants had different reaction to leaners’ pled. Fred Prozi began the experiment calmly but becomes increasingly tense as the experiment proceeds. He was shaking his head saying “who is going to take the responsibility if anything happens to that gentleman?”(Milgram 4). Prozi was fearing the responsibility of something happening to the learner. Inside him, he did not wanted to hurt the learner. He was afraid of declining to keep the experiment going on because he was expected to continuo by the experimenter. A medical technician named Gretchen Brandt, refused to go any further after 210 volts. She said that she was there on her own free will also didn't want to take the responsibility. She was being who she was in reality and was brave enough to decline the process no