Stanley Milgram's Analysis
Milgram conducted a test in 1963 because he was very interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction even if it involved physically hurting another person. Stanley Milgram was interested in how quickly and easily ordinary people could be influenced into harming or mudering inncent people. He got this idea from studying the way the Germans atrociously treated international prisoners in the second world war during the peak of Hitlers racial purification regime to rule the globe.
The teacher is told to give an electric shock each time the learner makes a mistake, also increasing the level of shock each time. There were 30 switches on the shock generator going from 15 volts up to 450 (which could easily kill a Human). …show more content…
Many tests show that in terms of naivity, our ancesters were actually more developed than we are as they had to work for everything they got, and weren’t spoonfed by a first world society like we are. Our constant protection from exerstential evil, means we never have to be on constant alert, or fear for our lives. However, our brain is still built to function on instinct, and modern day humans therefore still have this alert physical awareness all the time that is wasted on our ‘first world problems.’ What this means is that we worry about things that don’t really matter like the media or politics, and this spoiltness and easyness to our lives isnt healthy and it sets us back from intellectually advancing as a race. An example of this is war. The worlds biggest technological advances have been in war time because people are fearing for their lives and this causes them to get up and improve so that they can be technologically superior to the enemy force. Also, the older generation of wartime Britain that are still alive are incredibly different to that of today. They preserve and don’t like to waste, they are respectfull as they never got what they wanted but had to ration as the countries money was being spent on industry and weapons. This is the kind of attitude that is lacking today, and what human nature is designed for. Its not designed for the situation
The teacher is told to give an electric shock each time the learner makes a mistake, also increasing the level of shock each time. There were 30 switches on the shock generator going from 15 volts up to 450 (which could easily kill a Human). …show more content…
Many tests show that in terms of naivity, our ancesters were actually more developed than we are as they had to work for everything they got, and weren’t spoonfed by a first world society like we are. Our constant protection from exerstential evil, means we never have to be on constant alert, or fear for our lives. However, our brain is still built to function on instinct, and modern day humans therefore still have this alert physical awareness all the time that is wasted on our ‘first world problems.’ What this means is that we worry about things that don’t really matter like the media or politics, and this spoiltness and easyness to our lives isnt healthy and it sets us back from intellectually advancing as a race. An example of this is war. The worlds biggest technological advances have been in war time because people are fearing for their lives and this causes them to get up and improve so that they can be technologically superior to the enemy force. Also, the older generation of wartime Britain that are still alive are incredibly different to that of today. They preserve and don’t like to waste, they are respectfull as they never got what they wanted but had to ration as the countries money was being spent on industry and weapons. This is the kind of attitude that is lacking today, and what human nature is designed for. Its not designed for the situation