1“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” ― George Orwell‚ 1984 Big brother takes individuals strips them of their personality their morals and even their thoughts to create a perfect party member‚ these people will always be under his control‚ and never rebel to over throw him. He molds them into his idea of a (perfect party member)‚ by isolating the citizens of Oceania from the rest of the world. Having Telescreens in everyone’s
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Obedience to Authority: its Meaning‚ Uses‚ and Side Effects Obedience to authority is an aspect present in all societies throughout known history. For the entirety of this paper‚ obedience to authority will refer to any act a member of society performs that he or she was told to do by a position of higher authority. This paper will focus on the idea that members of society will follow commands that may go against their moral beliefs on the sole account that the commands come from a place of higher
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Contrasting among Obedience‚ Conformity and Compliance Obedience‚ Conformity and Compliance- all are human behaviors. Let’s look at the following incidents- 1. The student followed his teacher’s orders. 2. The parents bought a crib for their new born baby. 3. The factory implemented all the safety measures (for its workers) set by the Government. In the first example above‚ we see the student doing as he was told by his teacher. That means he obeyed the teacher‚ which is obedience. In the
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all things. Social pressure is powerful and can affect people of all ages. These pressures can cause people to conform to society even if he/she does not have the same opinion as the rest of society. In the article “Conformity‚ Compliance‚ and Obedience” by Candela Learning‚ it was found that “conformity is more likely to occur when responses are public than
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When Not Knowing is Understanding “Help [. . .] is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly‚” declared the father of narrator and author of A River Runs Through It‚ Norman Maclean (Norman Maclean‚ A River Runs Through It‚ A River Runs Through It and Other Stories‚ NY: Pocket Books-Simon & Schuster‚ 1992-1976‚ 1-113‚ 89. Print. All subsequent quotations are documented by page number only.). Norman’s attempt at helping people throughout the book is
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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‚
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Obedience Can Kill Obedience Can Kill As is common in our modern society‚ the government has laws and regulations in place for our safety. Many of these laws are well thought out and effective. But what happens when these same laws hamper our own ability to protect ourselves? Our obedience to the law can kill us. I firmly believe that my fellow students and the faculty of my college should have the ability to protect themselves from those who would do them harm. Students and faculty with a
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on the group’s decision regardless whether the individual knows it’s wrong. The factors the contribute to a personal judgment that leads to conformity are peer pressure and the social influence to fit in ("Module 11.4: Conformity‚ Compliance‚ and Obedience." n.d). For example‚ a person will more likely agree on the wrong answer in history class if the other students chose that answer as well. This is also another reason why election votes are held in private areas‚ so the person’s vote would not impact
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“On the Duty of Civil Obedience” I do not accept the motto. –“That government is best which governs least.” Government is a completely necessary institution. Without it‚ nations would crumble‚ famine would flourish‚ and massacres would occur daily. Of course it would be nice if humans didn’t need government‚ if men’s moral compasses all pointed in the same (correct) general direction. But they do not. It is just a far-fetched fantasy of perfection‚ it is impractical. Which is why government is necessary
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In The Perils of Obedience‚ Stanley Milgram expresses his findings of an experiment he conducted trying to prove the lengths people will go to be obedient to authority. The first experiments included a group of undergraduates from Yale. The experiments involved three subjects: the experimenter‚ the “teacher” and the “learner”. The teacher would read off a series of words. The learner‚ who is strapped to an electric chair‚ would be required to remember the words associated to one another. If the
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