Harold W. Dawson and Private Louden Downey blindly follow the unethical order of the Code Red granted by Colonel Nathan R. Jessup (Few). Obedience, by human nature, is common courtesy; however, blind obedience presents a dichotomy that forces people to question the overall value of obedience itself. Two analytical authors that delve into the issue of blind obedience and the submission to authority are Theodore Dalrymple and Erich Fromm. Theodore Dalrymple, a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist
"A Few Good Men" Comparative Analysis Marianne Szegedy- Maszak's "The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism" summarizes two experiments conducted where people participated in tortuous acts because authority told them. Szegedy-Maszak states there are three factors which play a role in torture, those are: authorization, routinization, and dehumanization (76). In "The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience", Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton argue the acts carried out were sanctioned
ordinary people fell into sadistic, unrelenting roles with no more pressure other than merely being given the role and following orders. This is not an uncommon result for many experiments surrounding the concept of obedience. Similar results can be found in Stanley Milgram’s Perils of Obedience experiment of 1963, in which people across cultures and demographics all willing delivered what they believed to be a lethal electric shock to another subject, merely because an authority figure commanded them
Some people argue that the likelihood of obedience depends on the situation and environment. Diana Baumrind, a psychologist at the University of California, examines this in her article “Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiment.” Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton also cover this in their article “The My Lai Massacre.” Lee Ross and Richard E. Nisbett discuss this in their article “The Power of Situations.” Baumrind writes about her issues with Milgram’s experiment, specifically the way he treated
No Ms. Johnson, I Can’t Handle the Truth “My obedience makes me part of the power I worship, and hence I feel strong. I can feel no error”, (Fromm 127). In Rob Reiner’s A Few Good Men, the ethical dilemma between the obedience to authority and the obedience one’s self is examined. On a Naval base in Washington D.C, Lt. Daniel Kaffee is accompanied by Lt. Com. Galloway in order to protect two Marines, Corporal Dawson and Corporal Downey, from a life in prison. Both marines were directly involved
Nervous conditions. According to Dambe 2014, patriarchy refers to a system of practices and structures in which men have more power than women and are able to use their power to dominate and oppress women. It is this patriarchal distribution of power that puts women in all kinds of dilemmas in the novel. One of weapon men use to oppress women is “silence and obedience’. Silence and obedience are considered as important values in Shona culture and colonial Rhodesia. This essay will therefore, explore
attractive. Yet, Dan Gordon opposes to such legislation because they would undermine environmental regulations, threaten homeowners’ property values while only benefiting the few large landowners. On one hand, John Locke would enable him to defend his argument by asserting that the government must work towards not the particular few but the common peace and prosperity. On the other hand, Thomas Hobbes would brush that argument aside, stating that as a subject Gordon has no right whatsoever to question
studying the Holocaust to ask whether man is inherently evil: did each person who participated in the Holocaust have a deep-seated and passionate hatred for the victims? Some of the scholarship on the Holocausts suggests that man is neither inherently good nor inherently evil, but a tabula rasa—a clean slate— influenced and shaped by his or her physical and emotional environment and susceptible to mass psychology. The concept
with Principle (How Socrates is Intriguing in Republic 1 & 2) Socrates has been known to be a teacher who will have his students question their own ideas and beliefs just through a few simple questions. In Plato’s work, Republic, Socrates shows this skill very blatantly. Especially in books one and two, Socrates has the men around him questioning and discussing very thoughtful topics. As stated in Learning Considered Within a Cultural Context, “Socrates valued private and public questioning of widely
is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” He realized more than 200 years ago what some governments have forgotten- a government must have a limit of how much control they have on society. In many societies, including The United States, one can infer that the government has an excessant depth of power. Although sometimes for good, it is obvious that the