Civil Disobedience Research Paper
Does each person have morals? Or just simply follow the leader?
Each person is born and grow into having morals and knowing what’s right from wrong, but what if people are just following orders and just obey simply because the “authority” demands it. This community needs challenges and changes or else there wouldn’t be any justice. If Martin Luther King Jr didn’t take a stand for what he believed in, there would be a different world out there and still have different colored schools and treat people differently just based on their skin. Disobedience is needed; challenges should be taken everyday into consideration. There is an experience called the Milgram experience that was conducted by Yale Unviersity psychologist Stanely Milgram. He …show more content…
In the first set of the experiment 65% of the experiment participants administrated the 450 volt shock. The machine that “shocked” the people was a shock generator with 30 switches ranging 15 to 450 volt shocks but instead of shocks that would “shock the participants, it actually just made noise that sounded as if someone were shocking them. Since time has passed there has been psychologist that has redone the experiment and the psychologist states that nothing as really changed and we have about the same …show more content…
Majority of Americans don’t trust their leaders and the ones that should be taking care of us but one question out of all them who has actually done something about it? Right a close number probably to none. All this negativity that go through my ears the “government is hiding things” “The government doesn’t want us to know” is all complaints but no solution comes out of it. In the article “The Follower Problem” it states “ I don’t know if America has a leadership problem; it certainly has a followership problem. Vast majorities of Americans don’t trust their institutions. That’s not mostly because our intuitions perform much worse than they did in 1925 and 1955, when they were widely trusted. It’s mostly because more people are cynical and like to pretend that they are better than everything else around them. Vanity has more to do with rising distrust than anything else.” Which is true we follow whatever leader says we think we need and follow authority just because of a title and they’re “bigger” than us. For example if we know we are innocent for speeding in a car but a police officer says you were and hands you a ticket; most people wouldn’t even try to fight for their innocence simply because “it’s a cop it doesn’t matter.” People should take in charge what their conscience and morals say instead of following what other citizens in the community
Each person is born and grow into having morals and knowing what’s right from wrong, but what if people are just following orders and just obey simply because the “authority” demands it. This community needs challenges and changes or else there wouldn’t be any justice. If Martin Luther King Jr didn’t take a stand for what he believed in, there would be a different world out there and still have different colored schools and treat people differently just based on their skin. Disobedience is needed; challenges should be taken everyday into consideration. There is an experience called the Milgram experience that was conducted by Yale Unviersity psychologist Stanely Milgram. He …show more content…
In the first set of the experiment 65% of the experiment participants administrated the 450 volt shock. The machine that “shocked” the people was a shock generator with 30 switches ranging 15 to 450 volt shocks but instead of shocks that would “shock the participants, it actually just made noise that sounded as if someone were shocking them. Since time has passed there has been psychologist that has redone the experiment and the psychologist states that nothing as really changed and we have about the same …show more content…
Majority of Americans don’t trust their leaders and the ones that should be taking care of us but one question out of all them who has actually done something about it? Right a close number probably to none. All this negativity that go through my ears the “government is hiding things” “The government doesn’t want us to know” is all complaints but no solution comes out of it. In the article “The Follower Problem” it states “ I don’t know if America has a leadership problem; it certainly has a followership problem. Vast majorities of Americans don’t trust their institutions. That’s not mostly because our intuitions perform much worse than they did in 1925 and 1955, when they were widely trusted. It’s mostly because more people are cynical and like to pretend that they are better than everything else around them. Vanity has more to do with rising distrust than anything else.” Which is true we follow whatever leader says we think we need and follow authority just because of a title and they’re “bigger” than us. For example if we know we are innocent for speeding in a car but a police officer says you were and hands you a ticket; most people wouldn’t even try to fight for their innocence simply because “it’s a cop it doesn’t matter.” People should take in charge what their conscience and morals say instead of following what other citizens in the community