People blindly follow morally questionable orders from superiors, study finds

Scientists attempted to understand the Holocaust by reconstructing the notorious Milgram experiment in 1961. And one of Ale 's professors claimed to prove that the evil is hidden in all of us.

In the experiment volunteers were asked to serve as teachers. And each matched an invisible student who was given a series of words to remember and repeat.

If the student is wrong, the teacher will be instructed to shock. As the experiment continues, the impact will be more serious

Encouraged by the authorities, the teacher continued to influence the cut-off point of up to 150 volts, even if the students paused at them and appealed to cry.

Like the original experiment, this is a nice prank designed. Students work and screams come from the recorder. But as Professor Stanley Milgram said earlier, the new team at the University of Santa Clara in California believes that obedience to authority can deny human moral belief even in today's so-called enlightenment era I will.

In the latest study, 7 out of 10 volunteers continued to reach maximum voltage - slightly lower than the number of original experiments

"People often wonder whether Millgam's work will bring about change today," Berg said.

"Many people point out the lesson of the Holocaust and believe that society has a deeper understanding of the risk of blind obedience.

"But what I found was that the same circumstance factor influenced the obedience of Milgram experiments."

In the first study after the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, the four volunteers continued, as they talked from the next room rumored, until they reached 450 volts.

The study analyzes the relationship between the expression of personal moral resentment and moral superiority. They found some important points. First of all, moral anger is selfish. They said, "These findings indicate that the moral resentment that has long been considered to be related only to the maintenance of justice might reflect the effort to sometimes maintain the moral identity" . In other words, people can publicly express moral anger mainly to make themselves feel better.

In order to understand the moral structure of the world blindly accept a majority opinion and question the information given to an individual rather than give full reliability and effectiveness based on the opinions of others It is important. Republic of Plato's work introduced the fable of the cave. It is a figurative scene and it seems easy to try to explain the importance of casting doubts on the norm. Plato depicts a cave living in a place where detainred prisoners are isolated from the outside world. They can see their front wall only when they are not moving and the walls are illuminated by a small fire behind them. The wall always reflects people's shadows ... See more