"The Milgram Experiment" by Saul McCleod is a article about How far most people were willing to go to obey authority.
In this article people were instructed to electrocute their students every time they got an answer Incorrect. Each time a the student answered a question incorrectly they would be shocked, each shock would be worse than the last, with the volts going from 15 volts- 450 volts. Each time the teacher refused to shock the student they would be instructed to continue by the authoritative figure in the room. This Experiment was designed to determine whether or not what the Nazis did was to obey authority or just out of pure evil
This Article gave me an insight on why the Nazi's killed so many people. It shows that most people will harm another person just to obey authority. In my opinion it wasn't evil for the teachers to electrocute the students because they were just following their orders
Bro dis was so gud 10/10 would read again
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ReplyDeleteThis is a very famous experiment, and not the only one to look at this issue. The human behaviour beneath this gives valuable insight, doesn't it. What lessons lie behind this for all of us? How might this be relevant to what we are seeing happening in the USA under the Trump presidency for example?
Ka pai Cody. Your opinion is stated clearly, and the context is introduced appropriately. Mr Sutton provided some excellent advice in his comment for improving your reading response. Discuss the historical/social connections, and include additional personal opinions to demonstrate your engagement with the text.
ReplyDeleteAlso, you need to include specific and detailed references from the text in order to achieve this standard that are LINKED to and SUPPORT your opinions. Quotations are the easiest way to do this. Nice work for your first go! Now on to the real deal. :)