A moral dilemma that I’ve have encounter numerous times in my life that continues to cloud my judgement even until this is day is obedience and how far we will let it reflect on how we let it decide how we live our life’s. It seems to be that now at this time with everyone having so many choices on how they can live our lives conflicts with our moral reasons with what is right or wrong and having to outweigh the values of our dilemma. Its makes us question for authority and test on how far our obedience from authority and superior lays. When we were little most of us were taught that by our parents what was right or wrong and how by simply having some few characteristics a person can have such as begin stronger, more powerful, and intelligent …show more content…
And that we should have to the ability to reconsider whether or not something is rational or irrational since not doing so can lead to be detrimental. When I was little I attend catholic school for most of my childhood education and there we were enlightened on what they indicated is moral and immoral. Well when I graduated I learned that because a person was gay didn 't mean that they were bad or evil, but that they are just like you and I. So with this in mind to made me reevaluate my position on what I found to be moral or immoral. With this in mind made me question my obedience from my education on which my parents spent on sustainably amount of money on was wrong and I was misinformed. So my obedience to question if I taught it was wrong. In addition, I began to conspicuously realize that there were certain norms that people have to oblige by in society to live properly and obey the …show more content…
This is like obedience to orders, where a defendant also mistakenly believes that, by following the orders of her commanding officer, she is not committing a crime. Duress involves a defendant who commits a crime because of threats of immediate bodily harm or death.22 The defendant is coerced into doing the act.23 But what sets obedience to orders apart from both duress and mistake of law is the presence of government coercion. Only the former involves a government soldier ordering an individual defendant to commit a crime. This, too, is similar to the defense of obedience to orders, where a soldier feels pressured into obeying a military order because of the threat of criminal punishment for disobedience. In other terms, it is a basic overview of how Hitler manipulated the minds of countless individuals to allow for them to feel they heartily believe that everyone nonwhite was evil and needed to be exterminated for the greater good. As for the soldiers slaughtering believed that they were simply following orders on grounds of them begin under direct authority and the murders they committed were justified by them begin direct by a person in higher
Powers, Rod. About.com, US Military. Military Orders: To Obey or Not to Obey? N.D. Web. 6 November 2011.
Stanley Milgram’s experiment shows societies that more people with abide by the rules of an authority figure under any circumstances rather than follow their own nature instinct. With the use of his well-organized article that appeals to the general public, direct quotes and real world example, Milgram’s idea is very well-supported. The results of the experiment were in Milgram’s favor and show that people are obedient to authority figures. Stanley Milgram shows the reader how big of an impact authority figures have but fails to answer the bigger question. Which is more important, obedience or morality?
pleas may be choose for the punishment likely to be associated with them rather than for their accuracy in describing the criminal offense in which the defendant was involved. For instance, a charge of indecent liberties, for example, in which the defendant is accused of sexual
The Army currently has an ethical code ebodied in the Army Values, which provides guidance to the individual and the organization. These values are universal across the Army regardless of an individual’s personal background or religious morals. Professional Military Education schools teach the Army Ethic and evaluation reports for leaders affirm this ethic. The Army punishes individuals, especially leaders, who violate this code. The Army administratively punishes Soldiers who do not adhere to this code, and the severity of punishment increases with rank. One recent and highly visible example of this is former General Petraeus’s adultery and the subsequent professional sanctions he experienced. The Army gr...
Conclusion: It is often difficult for individuals to disobey authority figures and groups based on these primary reasons; individuals will obey malevolent authority as from legitimate figure, decision making are often influenced by groups and unceasing quest for achievement causes humanity to have a hard time disobeying any legitimate authorities or groups given the fact that we are acting on self-deception in order to satisfy our inner ego, groups and with structural laws given to us as the correct way to obey.
“In the heart of nation’s capital, in a courthouse of the U.S government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.” This tagline helps to sum up the tone of the film A Few Good Men. Two soldiers caught in the middle of right and wrong will keep there hope and loyalty high as they wish for the best. Will the instigator of it all be pressured through his own anger to reveal the truth? Rob Reiner presents Col. Nathan R. Jessep as having an exaggerated self opinion while using his power for evil, based on dispositional factors.
Now for the Army, it becomes an obligation more than“willingness” while you have to be willing to do it as well. Those that are unable to be accountable are the ones that jeopardize the combat readiness of any unit. Basically it is the understanding that from the bottom up. Top down and laterally everyone is going to do and is willing to do the right thing even when no one else is looking. This is practiced at your home base where everyone is assigned tasks and details not only including your own job that you are expected to do and do right but hold others accountable as well as a system of “check yourself, then check your buddy.” Doing the job correctly and ensuring others do it as well and do it safely are all part of accountability in the military as one does not have to experience combat to understand that just being in the military is inherently dangerous given the types of equipment and weapons that are used to train and deploy with. As an example any live weapons range you go to part of the safety brief is “everyone here is a range safety” meaning anyone can call a cease fire if they observe dangerous behavior or a situation regardless of rank and it can be a Colonel or a brand new private, does not matter. As such in that event everyone becomes accountable not only for the operation of the range, the mission objective to have everyone qualify but do it in a safe
Middle Captain Shigehira’s plea to the Buddha, before his execution, exemplifies this. Shigehira declared “I was not acting of my own free will when I committed my grave sins; I was merely trying to do my duty. Who that lives can spurn an imperial command?” Regardless of what was commanded, the warrior was obligated to obey. Director of the Military Stores Bureau Yorimasa confirms this decree when he is ordered to restrain an invisible monster.
Johnstone, M., Primmer, J. (2014). [Lecture]. Morality I: Divine Command Theories of Ethics. PHILOS 1E03, Problems of Philosophy. Hamilton, ON, Canada: McMaster University.
Ordinary people are willing to go against their own decision of right and wrong to fulfill the request of an authoritative figure, even at the expense of their own moral judgment and sense of what is right and wrong. Using a variety of online resources including The Perils of Obedience by Stanley Milgram this paper attempts to prove this claim.
More specifically, the movie A Few Good Men depicts the results of blindly obeying orders. Stanley Milgram, a Yale psychologist, also explores obedience to authority in his essay “ The Perils of Obedience”. On the other hand, Erich Fromm, a psychoanalyst and philosopher, focused on disobedience to authority in his essay “ Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem.” Milgram wrote about how people were shockingly obedient to authority when they thought they were harming someone else while Fromm dissected both: why people are so prone to obey and how disobedience from authoritative figures can bring beneficial changes for society. Obeying commands, even when they go against our morals, is human nature; Disobeying commands, however, is challenging to do no matter what the situation is.
Obedience and disobedience play a huge role in our lives as humans. We begin with disobedience. With that, though, we develop the ability to choose to obey or disobey. In doing this, we obey the highest calling that we must: human nature. No matter how we modernize as a society, the primal instincts and decisions that rise up in every human being are very much the same as they have always been.
Obedience is also seen by many as the path of least resistance; it isn’t as mentally demanding to follow someone’s orders. Assuming authority figures know what is best for everyone, it is simpler to do what we are told than to have to think for ourselves. But once we stop thinking for ourselves and begin following orders bli...
“I was just following orders.” That line was infamously muttered as Stanley Milgram witnessed the Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals (Cuomo et al., 2007), after which he began to experiment to answer the question: “just how likely are human beings to blindly follow the orders, just or unjust, given by a legitimate figure of established authority?” In his studies, he provided a way to study obedience to authority by operationalizing obedience. According to Dr. Schreier (September 13, 2016), to operationalize is to label and describe variables of interest, giving a concrete meaning to a variable that would otherwise be quite ambiguous. There can easily be many interpretations of the term “obedience,” but in his study, Milgram simply
“4. RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fall what you resolve.”(132) The first four of these virtues seem hard enough that it would take most of a person’s strength just to follow them. Yet these four not only show the need for discipline but the importance of restraint.