Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Stanley Milgram's 'Obedience to Authority' study

This study that was given to people about whether or not people will go against their morals to obey an authority figure is very interesting. I would have to agree with this study, because I think that people will go against their morals if they are being told to do something. Special Forces of the Navy Seals is a good example of this. These people are trained to be lethal and not be stopped. If you are given a direct order from a person of higher authority than you, then you automatically do it. You don't question the order because if there is an hesitation then somebody could die or you could lose your job. They are following orders and do not care what those orders are. Chances are if they have to do something bad, then then can just claim that they were ordered to do it, even if it went against their morals.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Free Will

I believe that we all have the free will to make decisions for ourselves. No matter what we do, whether it is a bad choice or a good one, we have the choice to do something else. We all have choices to make, now depending if they have a good outcome or a bad outcome is different; but the fact remains that we all have choices, or free will. We can all do whatever we want, the consequences are a different story though.