Is Milgrim's Research: Is It Okay To Kill Other Human Beings?

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I personally would not go along with the requests of Milgrim in his research because I do not think its okay to do anything to another human being. Even if I disliked the person I would not wish them any harm; less a person I did not know. Like Milgrim said what if your killing someone that was about to kill one hundred humans beings then in that case is it okay to kill them for that? In my opinion I would totally want to stop this person from doing such thing but I would try to do my best to have a deeper understanding as to why they think its okay to harm other human beings. Milgrims’s research of measuring obedience seemed as if the study was taken too far when the teacher and the experimenter strapped the student who was a older gentleman

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