" ... then eventually, I learned that although all men are capable of good and evil, the worst are always those who, when given the wrong do relying on the authority of other , the subordination or the pretext of orders. And if terrible are those who claim to act on behalf of an authority, a hierarchy or a country, much worse are those who believe are justified by any god. Given a choice with whom deal when, sometimes unavoidable, to deal with people who do evil, always preferred to those able to benefit not only their own responsibility. Because of Toledo's secret prisons could learn, almost cost me my life, there is nothing more despicable, and dangerous, an evil that every night he goes to sleep with a clear conscience. Too bad it is. Especially when it comes even with ignorance, superstition, stupidity or power, which often occur together. And even worse when it acts as interpreter of a word, is the Talmud, the Bible, the Koran or any other written or writing. I am not fond of giving advice, I stab anybody from somebody else, "there goes one more cheap: your worships always wary of someone who is a reader of one book."
Arturo Perez-Reverte , " The Adventures of Captain Alatriste. blood cleaning, Alfaguara, pp. 155-156 Stanley Milgram's experiment is designed to explore what happens when they conflict the requirements of an "authority" to their conscience. Why do we obey authority? Should we always obey the authority? Often people tend to consider that most people are good and there are very few evil. Even thought we never would obey orders clearly irrational come from those who come.
Milgram's test was used to check if people had to be "bad" so that she could be persuaded to undertake a "bad action." The result is very easy to convince people to submit their moral beliefs to an "adjustment." It asked a group of students to administer an electric shock every time a fellow gave a wrong answer. The "experimenter" (authority) encouraged them to continue to "punish" their partners in the interests of science - although these had begun to scream and writhe in pain. Some consolation is knowing that the subject was being electrocuted was actually an "actor" who was part of the experiment. The indifference of the "ordinary people" who was inflicting this pain was quite real.
The key question is why does this happen? ie How is it possible that the pressure of a person with authority to impose on our moral sense?
An important conclusion we can draw is that, although generally people expect them to be those committing violent such acts, this does not always happen. In fact people who acted would feel normal, rather prone to it. In reality, little separates us from them not to be aware of the power authority can exert on people, and to that extent be alerts.
philosophers have traditionally suspicious of human nature does not care (with the exception of Rousseau, an arrant rogue), thought that few people they could expect ethical behavior and therefore the company needed a " virtuous man "that rule. Plato included women in its definition of a "guardian" appropriate.
Confucian moral life summarized in one word: "reciprocity." This is the universal "gold standard" of morality not do to others what you would not want us to do to you.
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