(H) Meyer, If Hitler Asked You…

Obedience has is a factor that many humans already have a good understanding sense of. Since we were babies, we became aware of the concept of obedience. We were told when we could eat, when to play or not to play, when to go to sleep. In society today, we are told what we can and can’t do as far as the law goes. In society, we see how people act in a normal setting and we adjust and only act certain ways to fit in and be acceptable to others. Milgram’s experiment shows how humans have the innate characteristic to obey what they are being told by a person or people in a higher position than them. Even when we are put in a position when we can potentially cause discomfort and or harm to another person, we connect to our mission because it is what we are told to do. Without any question for the purpose, outcome, significance of the experiment many of the people did exactly what they were told to do. This brings up questions about oneself and what we would do if we were put in a position like that. The concept of obedience has been repeatedly been engrained into our brains that we find it difficult to stray away from what were told to do, especially from a person of higher power than ourselves. To see closer into the concept of obedience, it doesn’t matter which background or ethnicity or race a person comes from, obedience is something hard to derive from and instead of disobeying we see through what we are told to do. While there is no punishment to us if we walk away, many people chose to instead make someone else be in discomfort because we didn’t want to disobey orders. The form in which we look to being obedient stems from what is expected of us rather than free will.