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Obedience has been drilled in out minds since we were infant, being told to share when we didn’t want to. Nowadays, as we grow up laws and regulations force us to be obedient. Our professors and parents want us to be obedient. However, as the decades pass by, more and more people want to be individuals, but can not because we were taught to follow someone else’s orders. Even though we are grown up we still have our minds set on following authority. As Milgram in his excerpt “The Perils of Obedience” claims, people still feel the need to please authorities by doing a good job. Milgram also argues that people will obey on authority if they feel that they are not personally responsible for the consequences of their actions. He finds that people most often rationalize to help them cope with what they are doing. Even though Milgram’s arguments were a result of a well tested experiment, it is to my believe that Kurt Vonnegut’s short story “ Harrison Bergerson” refutes most of Milgram’s arguments. Even thought people do try to find justification for their actions, Vonnegut’s story “Harrison Bergerson” exemplifies how people are obedient mostly because of threats and punishment, and not to make any kind of authority satisfied.
Approximate Word count = 823
Approximate Pages = 3.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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