The Milgram experiment was a research on what extent people would go in obeying instructions when hurting another person was involved. Stanley Mailgram’s interest was how people can be influenced to commit atrocities. A good example of a historical occurrence of such an influence is the World War one.  From the experiment 65 percent of the participants continued to 450 volts which was the highest level.  However, all the participants hit the 300 volts mark.  It is common for people to follow instructions or orders given by an authority figure. This goes to the extent of killing another human being. Our obedience to authority is engraved in all human beings from the way society raises us up.

Human beings always obey orders from other human beings if they think the orders are morally right or have a legal basis. Response to authority is learned by people through situations such as school, workplace and family. Consider the above example of World War 2. Soldiers fought in the war with the believe that it was morally right. The war led to the death of many soldiers and the surviving soldiers still continued.

At the expense of another person, this experiment should not have been carried. Most of the participants still continued even after the learner went quiet meaning that if the learner was actually receiving the shock, it would have been disastrous. Some of the teachers went as high as 450 volts which would have been harmful to the learner.  In addition, the anxiety imposed on the teacher was harmful.  Though the anxiety was worth it to see how the teachers would behave when anxious, it would have been different if the experiment was at the expense of the learner.

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