Summary Of Disobedience As A Psychological And Moral Problem

It was a late cloudy night when I was hanging with my two friends Ken and Pierce. I dropped them both off at Ken’s truck at a busy gas station after we all were done hanging out. When I was at the gas station I met up with my bestfriend and his name was Kason. We got into my car and said our goodbyes to my two friends and left. I sped down the highway and onto a barely lit back road on our way home.
As I was progressing down the back road, a truck was right behind me with their brights on. Kason and I got very worried as to who was following us. The truck quickened their pace and pulled up beside me, and it was Ken and Pierce. Pierce was a very loud and blunt soul. Pierce yelled towards me, “Race ya! Come on don’t be a coward!” I smiled sheepishly
Enrich Fromm’s article “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem” talks about how and why people do not like to disobey and what goes on in their mind when thinking about an action. Fromm explains that disobeying can change the morality of a person. In Enrich Fromm’s article he further explains, “Their act of disobedience broke the primary bond with nature and made them individuals.” Solomon E. Asch’s article “Opinions and Social Pressure” shows how people react in certain scenarios when they are within a large group of people. Peer pressure affects people in different ways and Asch tries to show how different personalities react with the pressure of peers. Both articles provide readers with interesting and insightful information; however, while Fromm describes disobedience in an ammeture way and with little detail, Asch goes deeper into explaining his position with excellent evidence and detail which makes his article more informative and
Most people usually obey peer pressure because they want to be someone they are not. In Fromm’s article, he expresses that a man feels peer pressured by his friends to disobey someone in authority to make his ego look better, or keep it in tack. An ego is very important to a man; an ego is a reputation but with his feelings. An ego can control most of your thoughts because you think everyone is constantly judging your actions and if he or she does something wrong that can take a bullet to his or her reputation. Men often think women are inferior to men because they were portrayed as the weaker gender in the past centuries. In Asch’s article, he explains the multiple experiments he has done with his volunteers. In one of his experiments, he takes his volunteers and gives them all a quiz. He then brings them into a room to discuss the answers they chose and they have to raise their hand. When the guy asked the question and called out the answers most people raised their hand confidently, but then there were others who were not so confident in their answers. They would take their hands down and contemplate whether they should actually tell their real answers. You see them then change their answer to the one the majority went with. Asch further explains in his article, “Under group pressure the minority subjects swung to acceptance of the