In our world nowadays, obedience allows things to run smoothly and efficiency. However, in some instances, obedience can take over and cause a person to do things that they don’t usually do; either good or bad things. So, how far could obedience take to force an individual to do something even though it was not right or immoral? Psychologist Stanley Milgram wanted to study the effect of obedience due to the tragedy that happened in World War 2: The Holocaust. His family was one of the Jews that suffered from this catastrophic genocide. More than six million Jews were killed by more than ten thousand German under Hitler’s command. How did Hitler use the power of obedience to make them obey him and create the most catastrophic genocide? Milgram later found his answer by conducting an experiment to test how far people would do things under the pressure of command. In the laboratory, an authority figure told the participant to teach the “learner” a list of words and asked him questions. To punish this “learner” whenever “the learner” gave the wrong answers, the participants were asked to deliver
In our world nowadays, obedience allows things to run smoothly and efficiency. However, in some instances, obedience can take over and cause a person to do things that they don’t usually do; either good or bad things. So, how far could obedience take to force an individual to do something even though it was not right or immoral? Psychologist Stanley Milgram wanted to study the effect of obedience due to the tragedy that happened in World War 2: The Holocaust. His family was one of the Jews that suffered from this catastrophic genocide. More than six million Jews were killed by more than ten thousand German under Hitler’s command. How did Hitler use the power of obedience to make them obey him and create the most catastrophic genocide? Milgram later found his answer by conducting an experiment to test how far people would do things under the pressure of command. In the laboratory, an authority figure told the participant to teach the “learner” a list of words and asked him questions. To punish this “learner” whenever “the learner” gave the wrong answers, the participants were asked to deliver