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Conscience

Conscience

Please consider the following quote and place your thoughts about it within your reply:

"With numbing regularity good people were seen to knuckle under the demands of authority and perform actions that were callous and severe. Men who are in everyday life responsible and decent were seduced by the trappings of authority, by the control of their perceptions, and by the uncritical acceptance of the experimenter's definition of the situation, into performing harsh acts. A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act and without limitations of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority"
-- Stanley Milgram, 1965

Conscience

This is something I think about a lot. I want an authority, somebody to tell me what to do so I know that I'm serving someone. I want to have that authority telling me how to live. But I know that I need something else, and if I succumb to that I'll lose myself and I will not have a conscience, just the will to do someone else's will.

I think that this quote is totally true and people will fall into this trap.

Conscience Health & Special Psychology

This is why free thought is so important and why science is such a leading philosophy in the world today.

Rather off topic, but...
When I think of revolt today I think of religion against science, or low income against high income.

It is true people will follow this course. However I have found if they are given another option that is better, they will choose that.