ATS2875 Chapter 1: Moral Psychology of Evil - Lecture 5 Reading - Gina Perry - Disobedience
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She felt that although she was talking he didn"t care and that she was an object a body to be put through certain tests. She felt that the study was vague, disjointed and confusing: he had deceived her and she was in fact playing against the computer of which she had already guessed. It seemed not much has changed from milgram"s experiments in the early 1960s. She didn"t understand how he would calculate how she would vote in the next election by getting her to play a computer game. Joe dimow was a participant in milgram"s experiments. If you believed that an authority"s commands were legitimate, then obedience was good and correct. If you believed that the authority"s commands were wrong or illegitimate then obedience was not a virtue by a failing and disobedience was to be admitted. It is suggested that people may have seen through milgram"s cover story, something that.