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The Shock Generator Experiment: Inhumane And Strange

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Inhumane and Strange Obedience, something you should wish for from your dog but not another human being. The shock generator experiment is almost Nazi like. It was not administered properly and most would say dangerous and inhumane. We, people on earth, have been given orders for as long as we can remember, but is it fear that makes us obedient? Mental health and psychical evaluations are needed in an experiment like this for the safety of the subjects and learners involved. Not properly explaining what exactly the experiment is, letting people back out or end it when the shocks have been administrated could produce a fatal ending. The subjects administering the shocks could be sadists
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She only stood, because if she ran they would shoot…” (4). The guards and the soldiers are symbols for the change of morality. They have the feeling that it is their right to take over other people’s lives such as Magda’s and the prisoners’, who are also damaged physically from the harsh treatment they receive. When looking at Milgram’s experiment, subjects also treat the students as if they were animals: “Of the 40 subjects, 26 obeyed the orders of the experimenter to the end, proceeding to punish the victim until they reached the most potent shock available on the shock generator”(Milgram). Most of the subjects accept the authority even though they knew that it may be dangerous to shock the victims with high voltage.

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