Analysis Of Stanley Milgram's Experiment On Obedience To Authority

In today’s world, our intellect and morals have advanced to new heights, but we are still humans. While we believe we can make better choices, Stanley Milgram’s experiment on obedience to authority demonstrates that we don’t always make the choices we think we would make in a harsh situation. His experiment explains how Nazi Germany came to exist and how something like it could eventually exist in the future.
In Milgram's experiment volunteers were put into an experiment where they drew straws with another individual who was an actor to determine who was the learner or teacher. This set up so that the actor was always the learner. The straw drawing process creates a certain bond between the individual being tested and the learner. The individual

The autonomous state is when you do whatever you think is best and take responsibility for the consequences of those actions. The agentic state is when you let others decide what is best for you to do and you pass off the responsibility for the consequences of those actions to an authority figure. In Saul McLeod’s article in Simply Psychology titled “The Milgram Experiment”, McLeod writes that “Agency theory says that people will obey an authority when they believe that the authority will take responsibility for the consequences of their actions. This is supported by some aspects of Milgram’s

The word originates from Ancient Greek and translates to the “weakness of will”. The Book of Life writes that “...in practice, our wise ideas have a notoriously weak ability to motivate our actual behaviour. Our knowledge is both embedded within us and yet is ineffective for us.” This idea is one of the things Milgram wanted to prove in his experiment. Arkasia can be anything from knowing we should work out but playing video games instead to thinking we wouldn’t kill to obey authority but actually killing.
I don’t think that I experience arkasia as much as most people but I don’t think that I’m immune to it. I would say that I wouldn’t go to the 450 volts like 65% of people in milgram's experiment did but I can’t say for sure since the evidence suggests that most people are wrong about what they would do. Procrastination is the best example of it in my life. I procrastinate all the time even though logically it makes no sense. Learning about my mind is the first step to overcoming my arkasia so that I can make the decisions I want to make. I want to be the person who stops before 300 volts in the Milgram experiment, as does many