Obediance is Human Nature

When the Meyer article was assigned, and I saw that the title was "If Hitler asked you..." I immediately knew what my response was: no. I thought to myself there is no way I would ever obey Hitler, because what he did was so horrible. Even as a read and annotated, I disagreed with the author's assertions that people would probably obey Hitler, because I didn't have an open mind to the concept Meyer was trying to prove. I believe thats how the majority of people now would react to that question. No chance would I obey Hitler, because that would be wrong. However, Stanley Milgrim's study proved otherwise. It proved that humans as a majority submit to authority, even if that is at the expense of the subject. If personal responsibility is non existant, which it was in the Milgrim case, then people will obey because its not their fault; they were just doing their job. And the same can be said about the people that obeyed Hitler. They were submitting to his ultimate authority because they could blame Hilter's orders and alleviate their own responsibility. People don't necessarily care about the subject if what happens is not directly their fault. I think this is a major flaw of human nature, because the people are not really thinking for themselves. The "teachers" knew they were hurting the "learners", but decided to ignore their own morals for the betterment of the study. I don't like how it works, but unfortunately I also believe it's human nature and is present in each of us.