Essay On Milgram Experiment

Although obedience has a relatively positive connotation, it can be displeasured in situations in which certain individuals are willing to neglect any moral beliefs they have in order to fulfill what is expected of them. Stanley Milgram was an inquisitive psychologist who was bold enough to conduct what no other curious mind had- find the source that gave the sense of obligation when it came from a legitimate authority figure- even if it meant causing life threatening harm to others. The issue addressed is whether one can decipher the difference between ethical obedience and unjustifiable demands. This experiment is to benefit readers in ways that no other proven statistic can, for Milgram knew that the results would allow us to visualize what it is that evinces people to produce such tragic chaos at the snap of a superiors ' fingers. Notably, Milgram 's objective was to determine the extent an average person would willingly inflict physical pain to …show more content…
Because the roles in this experiment are fixed, the learner is the only component in this experiment that will endure the agonizing pain of the electric shocks. Being that there was forty men who answered the newspaper advertisement, the Milgram Experiment was to be conducted a total of forty times; therefore, the student (Milgram 's confedetate) was to be put through agonizing pain for forty trials. Although Mr. Wallace decided to participate in this experiment, the morals behind the loud cries for help should not be inflicted purposely on another individual, much less for a total of forty times. Moreover, the range of the electric shock was from 15 volts to 450 volts, which translates to a slight shock to a severe shock accordingly. If the electric shocks aren 't enough to kill you in the process, the toll it can take on ones body is not only distressing at the time of infliction, but can leave you