From the podcast, I learned the Milgram Experiment didn't really show that people were just following orders from authority. It really shows how the "teachers," also known as the people being experimented on the Milgram Experiment, believe they are important to the scientific study of memory. From what I learned before from the article, Stanley Milgram believe people obeyed authority so much that they lost their self conscience of hurting others. My new understandings about humanity is when people believe they are important to something they will go to any extent for it. This shows why participants in the Milgram Experiment were willing to go all the way with the electric shocks. We should be optimistic about humanity because not everyone has bad intentions in this world. Sometimes we have the best intentions but don't use it in the best way possible.
In other words, you believe people sometimes do wrong things for right reasons
ReplyDeleteDid you hear when they said in some ways it doesn't seem as "dark" when you realize that they did it for science but on the other hand it is even more scary that they did. Why do you think they said that?
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