Milgrams Experiment
Mrs. Lovejoy
English J075
Essay #3
I would not be the kind of person who takes orders blindly whether it is from an authority figure or not. I personally would not like to be on the opposite end of this situation therefore I would find myself resisting the orders to end another’s life. Sometimes you don't have the necessary amount of time to decide whether or not what you are being asked to do is the right thing or not, and in those kinds of situations people normally find themselves making bad decisions. If it were at all possible I would try to figure out for myself whether or not the person in question actually deserved it. If I had to for the sake of those I loved or for my own life I honestly believe that I would do what is needed to ensure mine or others safety. Not because I was ordered to do so by a figure of authority but because it was the right thing to do.
Reading about Milgram’s experiment helped to share a different perspective on how people deal with these types of situations. It showed me that the average person would follow an order regardless of their personal beliefs as long as they were guaranteed that it was justified in some way shape or form, or otherwise reassured that the person they would supposedly be harming would make it through with their life intact and only sustain minimal if any damage. The Milgram experiment was a social experiment on the obedience of a normal person to that of the whims of a figure of authority. This was completed through a series of social - psychological experiments that were conducted by an instructor at Yale University in the early 60s. These series of tests were centered on analyzing the willingness of study participants to follow the orders of someone instructing them to make what may seem to some as rather immoral decisions. The experiment consisted of one person being the instigator who would coerce the subject into punishing another upon their failure to correctly answer a series of
English J075
Essay #3
I would not be the kind of person who takes orders blindly whether it is from an authority figure or not. I personally would not like to be on the opposite end of this situation therefore I would find myself resisting the orders to end another’s life. Sometimes you don't have the necessary amount of time to decide whether or not what you are being asked to do is the right thing or not, and in those kinds of situations people normally find themselves making bad decisions. If it were at all possible I would try to figure out for myself whether or not the person in question actually deserved it. If I had to for the sake of those I loved or for my own life I honestly believe that I would do what is needed to ensure mine or others safety. Not because I was ordered to do so by a figure of authority but because it was the right thing to do.
Reading about Milgram’s experiment helped to share a different perspective on how people deal with these types of situations. It showed me that the average person would follow an order regardless of their personal beliefs as long as they were guaranteed that it was justified in some way shape or form, or otherwise reassured that the person they would supposedly be harming would make it through with their life intact and only sustain minimal if any damage. The Milgram experiment was a social experiment on the obedience of a normal person to that of the whims of a figure of authority. This was completed through a series of social - psychological experiments that were conducted by an instructor at Yale University in the early 60s. These series of tests were centered on analyzing the willingness of study participants to follow the orders of someone instructing them to make what may seem to some as rather immoral decisions. The experiment consisted of one person being the instigator who would coerce the subject into punishing another upon their failure to correctly answer a series of