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    Nature of Obedience to Authority

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    :blink: Ok you're really going to need to fill in the lines on that one. Please, give some specifics about how this was conducted.

    Well Psychologist's are given guidelines to follow to ensure the study or experiment they are carrying out is ethical.

    Milgram broke these of the following guidelines. I will go through them briefly (too much detail to go into):

    Informed consent: participants were not told that they could withdraw from the experiment.

    Deception: the participants were deceived about the true purpose of the experiment. They were made to believe they were administering real electric shocks to a naive subject. (Though this could be debated)

    Protection from psychological harm: the participants were severely distressed after the experiment had finished. From what I learnt, they were in terrible shock since they believed they actually killed someone.

    There are some other studies where psychologist broke far too many ethical guidelines that the participants ended up mentally disturbed. (Though it is very rare)

    Nature of Obedience to Authority

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    All Milgram study tried to prove that whether people would commit horrific acts under influence of authority. His study cannot be generalised in this time, since society values changes over time.

    I do wonder what the outcome would be if the experiment was conducted again. I highly doubt it since it was very unethical.

    Nature of Obedience to Authority

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    Is there an article how the experiment was conducted in more detail?

    Yes its all over the internet. Wikipedia should provide good information but its very basic and most articles do not go into much detail.

    You need to study Psychology and understand all the basic concepts for it to be applied to experiment and gain a indept understanding. What I written there is just a summary.

    Its a study conducted by Milgram.

    Nature of Obedience to Authority

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    Posted · Edited by Judge Judy

    What I just said. No, I wouldn't. I'll admit I don't like Jewish people (actually, any Religious people, but anything's fine as long as they aren't completely obsessed with their religion and try to convert me), but killing a bunch of people just because they believe in something is just stupid. If I don't believe in killing someone because of something, I'm not going to do it.

    I don't really care how much authority someone has, because authority does not exist. It's nothing but how high and mighty you think someone is.

    Though it would be difficult to back those words up because hundred of soldiers did as they were told.

    Nature of Obedience to Authority

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    I'm not the kind of person who blindy takes orders. Not servile enough. I wouldn't do it unless it was just, and my morals aren't screwed up like a generic anime villian's.

    We are talking about the government or a big authority figure giving orders to take someone elses life.

    For example, WW2 soldiers were ordered to kill the Jewish people by the government. In that context, would you ever consider taking someone elses life?

    Nature of Obedience to Authority

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    Posted · Edited by Judge Judy

    In Psychology, we learnt of an experiment conducted by Milgram.

    This study was controlled observation investigating the nature of obedience to authority.

    The background to the study was an interest in events that occurred in Nazi Germany. Soldiers obediently killed millions of people on orders of their superiors.

    Milgram wanted to show human tendency to obey orders could extend to where personal morals and beliefs would be overridden.

    He conducted a study where male participants were ordered to administer electric shocks to a level strong enough to kill. Though the electric shocks were fake. The participants were NOT aware of this.

    He concluded in certain conditions, the average person could become a killer in the name of obedience.

    So would you obey authority to a certain extent to take someone else’s life?

    What is more annoying?

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    Whining is worse for me. I'm not around people who brag often, so I don't hear much of that. And bragging is easy to ignore for me. But I'm stuck in classes with kids who whine whenever the teacher assigns anything. It drives me crazy.

    lol

    That must be annoying. I hated it when I was at school and all the kids did was complain.

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