Is “I was just doing my job” a fair defense? What do we make of the people who do think so, and what would we do if an authority ordered us to do something immoral? This week we will look at the experiments of Stanley Milgram and the implications those experiments draw upon modern society.
Viewings
“We were only following orders” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfbiStS1kG4
Following orders? If you don’t clean your room we will get sent to the gulags! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COThKm3ftTo
Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down. That’s not my department! Says Wernher von Braun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro
Derren Brown recreates the Milgram Experiment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6GxIuljT3w
Explanation of the Milgram Experiment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXXbIF5Okjc
Listenings
Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down. That’s not my department! Says Wernher von Braun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro
Where this will lead us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pklr0UD9eSo
Readings
Mises on the Milgram Experiment https://mises.org/library/milgram-experiment