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A while after receiving his doctorate, Milgram began studying the justifications of genocide, in particular the case of Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann was responsible for countless war crimes associated with the Nazis, however he claimed that him and all of his accomplices were simply following orders. A year after Eichmann’s trial, Milgram had set out to find the answer to his new found question, “Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices?" (Milgram, 1974). It is this underlying question that supported the entire experiment, essentially a study focusing on the conflicts between obedience to authority and personal conscience. As in, would you harm a person if you were told to do so by someone with high authority? The experiments began in July of 1961, at Yale University, when Milgram began a search for participants, by publishing a short advertisement in a newspaper.

In the beginning of chapter two, where Lauren is describing a setup for the reader is something I really like as the opening. Instead of going in and start introducing the experiments that Milgram did, Lauren made it if I was the one who was experimented on. I also mentioned that I like how she made the reader become mice to understand the experiment last week. I believe this is going to be a common recurring theme within this book since it helps me to understand the chapter that I’m reading.

History has a tendency to repeat itself.  One of humanity’s most popular ways of getting its point across is through violence.  When words are no longer enough to argue a point, human casualties not only directly solve the problem, but symbolically send a message to all those affected as well.  Just as the American colonies fought against the British for Freedom when their voice was no longer heard, and just as the Islamic extremists used terrorism to send an evil message to America, both V and Chancellor Sutler used violence to gain a voice in a world of chaos.

The Milgram experiment was conducted in 1963 by Stanley Milgram in order to focus on the conflict between obedience to authority and to personal conscience. The experiment consisted of 40 males, aged between 20 and 50, and who’s jobs ranged from unskilled to professional. The roles of this experiment included a learner, teacher, and researcher. The participant was deemed the teacher and was in the same room as the researcher. The learner, who was also a paid actor, was put into the next room and strapped into an electric chair. The teacher administered a test to the learner, and for each question that was incorrect, the learner was to receive an electric shock by the teacher, increasing the level of shock each time. The shock generator ranged from

People can change in a position of power from being normal to crazed. In the milgram experiment uses students from yale university were used to show a relation between position of power and being evil, the experiment showed that there was a relation. Saul Mcleod conveys through the article "THE MILGRAM EXPERIMENT" that people put in positions of power, are more likely to be cruel to the people they are in power of. The other experiment the stanford experiment was to see how many people would kill another person when instructed to someone of a higher stature. The article by Saul Mcleod shows how people are suseptable of murdering someone when another person is to blame. Both articles show that positions of power can make people do insane

It was surprising how easily someone could just inflict pain on another human being without so much as a second thought. Milgram even states “Subjects in the experiment frequently even said, “If it were up to me, I would not have administered shocks to the learner” (Milgram 702). By stating this I know the participants did have some remorse they wouldn’t want to shock the learner but they do because of the fact they were told to by an authority figure. In life we are always told to listen and respect our elders and teachers and we see them as our authority figure so if they were to give us a command we would compile. What if the command we were given was something we knew was wrong but since it was from someone who has authority it must make it ok. That’s we think and I know working in the nursing field I see it more than I should because of nurses telling me to do things I’m not allowed to do under my certifications. I find it hard to tell them no, just like the participants of this experiment they knew that if they listened the individual would get hurt but that didn’t matter they were doing what they were told to do. The experiments were wrong morally and were extremely cruel and because they were so unnecessary innocent individuals were put in pain for no

In 1984, after the trial of World War 2 criminal Adolph Eichmann, Stanley Milgram created an experiment where his starting hypothesis was to see if Germans had a character flaw which made them more obedient which correlated to the holocaust. He put an advertisement in the newspaper for volunteers for an educational experiment who would be paid on hour for $4.50. The experiment itself wasn’t real, but the participants didn’t know that it going in. The experiment was once they got into the “laboratory”, they picked from a hat and one would get “teacher” and the other “learner” but it is rigged so the participants will always get “teacher”. Jack William who is the experimenter takes the “learner” into a room to strap them into the shock machine while the “teacher” watches and at this time, the “teacher” is informed of the “learners” heart condition and Jack Williams pushes

In modern day, every new person in power has new ideas that they think will benefit the group in any sort of way. I was not sure how they got everyone to agree with their ideas because most of the time, the ideas are quite bizarre. In the United States, for example, though the citizens do get word on what they believe in, we have the president and his partners making the final decisions on the laws, but those laws may not be what each citizen wanted. This is shown through the Milgram Shock Experiment performed in 1961. There is the learners, who are sitting it a different room answering questions, and the teachers, who are obeying an authority figure, shocking the others depending on if they answer right or wrong. As a result of the experiment,

The banality of evil expression was coined by Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German political theory, in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem, whose subtitle is a report on the banality of evil. In 1961, in Israel, Adolf Eichmann 's trial for genocide against the Jewish people during World War begins. The trial was involved in a controversy and many disputes. Almost all the world's newspapers sent reporters to cover the sessions, which were made publicly by the Israeli government. In addition to crimes against the Jewish people, Eichmann was charged with crimes against humanity and belonging to a group organized criminal purposes.

Stanley Milgram conducted one of the most controversial psychological experiments of all time: the Milgram Experiment. Milgram was born in a New York hospital to parents that immigrated from Germany. The Holocaust sparked his interest for most of his young life because as he stated, he should have been born into a “German-speaking Jewish community” and “died in a gas chamber.” Milgram soon realized that the only way the “inhumane policies” of the Holocaust could occur, was if a large amount of people “obeyed orders” (Romm, 2015). This influenced the hypothesis of the experiment. How much pain would someone be willing to inflict on another just because an authority figure urged them to do so? The experiment involved a teacher who would ask questions to a concealed learner and a shock system. If the learner answered incorrectly, he would receive a shock. Milgram conducted the experiment many times over the course of 2 years, but the most well-known trial included 65% of participants who were willing to continue until they reached the fatal shock of 450 volts (Romm, 2015). The results of his experiment were so shocking that many people called Milgram’s experiment “unethical.”

V cannot be defined by the violence. It is not him doing the crimes, but the vigilante is the product of the violence he experienced. At the beginning of the movie no one knew the reason V was committing all the crimes and wanted to get back at the government. Everyone just saw him as an unknown murder that is there to destroy their community. Throughout the movie were flashbacks of V in Larkhill. Larkhill was based off of Hitler’s concentration camps and the Nazi atrocities. V says that he lost his memory while at Larkhill, so during the timeframe of the movies events, even he did not know he was sent there. They locked him in a room with the Roman numeral five on the door, which is where he got the name V. The reason he was imprisoned because

In V for Vendetta,the characters V and Evey rebelled against the governement by killing government officials, and blowing up main government buildings such as the Parliament.

Set in late twentieth century United Kingdom, V for Vendetta highlights the subsequent devastation result of an overly powered government. Much like Rousseau’s claim of Man being “everywhere in chains,” the citizens in V for Vendetta are restrained in nearly every aspect of life. They are chained by the surveillance that watches over them, by the jobs they are and are not allowed to have, and by the places they are not allowed to go. We can observe how political power has negatively shaped this fictional dystopia, either by the eerie pedophilic nature of people in power, or by the nonchalant acts of sexual assault and undeserved homicide that seemingly take place constantly. These actions are justified by the government as means to protect the people’s freedom, similar to the same reason why Hobbes claims a government is essential. However, a reaction of these poor living conditions not considered by Rousseau is a rebellion. Rousseau’s belief of people in an overly controlling government is that they would willingly accept the control in respect of their security. The main character “V” in V for Vendetta, refutes this idea. Wearing the previously mention Guy Fawkes as a mask, V is making a symbolic statement on his view of government control. By imitating the very person who attacked parliament nearly four hundred years ago, V is successfully showing his hatred of government in a violent and destructive way. These calculated attacks refer back to Hobbes’ belief of every person being equal. Though this rebellion would clearly result in execution, V is choosing to be free, and is forcing his fellow citizens to be free as

From my perspective, I agree with Malala “terror can make people cruel” since, in the way of terror, people may no longer care about others’ life and rights by taking evil actions, as they only pursue their goals. Historically, such conditions emerged during the World War 2. For instance, the Nazi Party at that time contended discrimination towards the Jews, killing them in the gas chambers brutally without any sympathy. Moreover, also during this period, Japanese invaded China, killing hundreds of thousands of Chinese without any reasons, while their behaviors massively violated Chinese rights for life and security. In a nutshell, both of the examples can demonstrate my thoughts that during the particular period, people lost their values of

Discuss the Milgram Conformity Experiment, include ethical considerations, the strengths and weaknesses of the approach.