The Obedience Study

The morals of an average Human being can be extremely changed based on different situations and variations in these situations. One major variable is in a form of an authority figure, whether it be someone very important, a professional or just someone that you think knows more about the subject at hand then you do. When told to do something from this person your conscience is clear in mind because if anything goes wrong you believe it’s not your fault but the authority figures. The obedience study shows how people are willing to give a lethal shock to someone just because a professor is asking them to do so. The subjects in this experiment were willing to go against their morals, end someone's life, because they felt that they were not responsible for their actions. We can justify many things on an unconscious level without knowing it because we believe that we are making a decision that we have no moral problems with, when infact on a conscious level our morals are different. A story in the bible called the Good Samaritan, where the only person to help a man injured on the way to Jericho and the only person to help him was a lower class man that believed that …show more content…
In the prison experiment of ///edit here/// the students create a fake scenario where there are guards and prisoners both of which end up having their morals changed in a way based on their roles. The guards had to much power and ended up becoming harsh with the prisoners and abused their powers, whereas the prisoners were uncooperative and at any moment would try their hardest to anger the guards. Even Though the students knew it was all fake the fact that this happened so easily without even a second thought of what they were doing was incredible, that even in a made up scenario people can change that much in such a short amount of time is