Milgram Experiment Unethical

The Milgram experiment did outweigh the ethical consequences because the experiment provided us with new and shocking information about how we act and work as a society. The Milgram experiment not unethical because it did not technically break any of the Ethical Guidelines because the teachers were not forced to push the button and no physical harm was done to any of the test subjects in the experiment. It also gave Stanley Milgram eye opening results about why authority and obedience are huge factors in society, even until today. And that was an important question to answer back then because, Stanley Milgram was examining the justifications of the Nazis in World War Two and in the Nuremberg War Criminal Trials. He wanted to find out if the Nazis were just blindly following Hitler and how the nazis could commit awful acts to innocent people without feeling remorse. The new information and data collected from The Milgram experiment was worth it. If Stanley Milgram never set up the experiment, we wouldn’t know how people in society obey to authority.

Back in the 1961, about two decades after World War Two, a psychologist named Stanley Milgram wanted to answer the question : How did the Nazis commit horrible acts to the Jews without any conscience? Stanley Milgram wanted to conduct …show more content…
Because the Milgram experiment unlocked the key of how people strive to be obedient to an authority figure, even if it means intentionally hurting another human being. The data collected the Milgram experiment massively outweighed the ethical issues because it gave us the key to understanding that the human nature wants to obey. And if an authority figure pressures a person, the person can switch from good, to committing inhumane acts. “It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.” ( Stanley