Obedience In The Film Milgram

In this film, Milgram was interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person. It was shown that ordinary people tend to follow orders given by an authority figure, even to the extreme of killing an innocent human being. But, being obedient to individuals, especially with authority is carved into a human being from the way they were raised. If the person with authority is recognized to be morally right, people tend to obey orders from they even more. In addition, having obedience for authority is great, however when it’s putting an individual life at risk, you should not obey the authority. In other words, if a person feel like the task their completing is hurting someone else,
they have all rights to say no and walk away. In the film, the male distributing the shocks had all rights to get up and leave. Deep down in him, he knew what he was doing was morally wrong, however he didn’t stand up for what he believe is right. He continued to distribute shocks when the authority insisted him to, as if he was being forced and held down. But, when an individual is closer to the person with authority, they are more obedient. For example, if the person with authority wasn’t nearby, the gentleman probably would have stop distributing shocks. However, since the authority was close by, he did what he was instructed to do.
My reaction towards the video was quite disturbing because it gave me the impression that people don’t know how to say no and mean no, especially when some life is at risk. But, because a so called authority says continue, they proceed in the doings. Which shows no sort of leadership or the right of being morally correct.
Honestly, I think this story can be done today, however the outcomes will be completely opposite. I think that there is a possibility an individual will not go through with this process of continuously shocking an individual.