Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at the University of Yale devised a study that tested people obedience. He conducted a blind study to test a person’s obedience to an authority figure, having a participant deliver out a shock to the other participants if they answered incorrectly, would they ignore their own moral conscience and do as they are told or would they stay true to their beliefs and refuse. At the end of the study what he discovered was disturbing, more than half of the participants were willing to abandon their beliefs ignoring their moral conscience to satisfy the authority figure. A lot of the participants alleviated themselves of all responsibility for their actions by placing blame on the other participant saying that it was not their fault that they were being punished or placing blame on the authority figure saying they were just following orders. When the participants were told the true nature of the study most felt horrible and disgusted …show more content…
The Obedience to an authority becomes dangerous to our society when we become so blinded by it, that we do not realize we are harming an individual(s) because it rid us of our moral conscience. In Milgram’s study he speaks about a test subject Morris Braverman, a social worker, was disgusted with himself, he could not believe he was so blinded with his obedience that he ignored his moral conscience causing pain on another person. In