Just Do What The Pilot Tells You Summary

In the articles, “Just Do What the Pilot Tells You” by Theodore Dalrymple and “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem” by Erich Fromm, the authors possess differing opinions on the ideology of obedience versus disobedience, but are similar on demonstrating the impact on human relationships, explaining the key role of judgement in actions of conformity, and implementing facts based on scientific experiments. Ultimately, Dalrymple has a more superior argument providing further evidence of... to definitively conclude each point.
Theodore Dalrymple states in the article, "Just Do What the Pilot Tells You," that obedience to power is no greater than disobedience. Dalrymple's motivation for writing this article was to define that the act of obedience to authority is needed for a society to remain in balance (Dalrymple 121) . Dalrymple begins analyzing Stanley Milgram’s experiment and begins to justify what happened in the experiment. The article described that Milgram’s demonstration was individuals that shocked subjects and tormented them simply because they needed to obey to power. Dalrymple expresses that despite the fact that Milgram proved even good people have the capability to …show more content…
In Erich Fromm’s article there is a mention of how there are two concepts of judging; “authoritarian conscience” and “humanistic conscience” (Fromm 125-126). The author says these factors are the “voice that calls us back to ourselves, to our humanity,”(Fromm 127) shows how judgement will always be necessary in regards to being obedient or disobedient. Dalrymple’s approach to the necessity of using intuition in times of being obedient or disobedient contributes a practical explanation to why people should be