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Merroney Williams Humanities Access Course Why do we obey authority? Obedience is when there is legitimate power, there is pressure to comply. Compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control. Authority being the legal or rightful power; a right to command or enforce obedience on another. This essay shall discuss, explore and evaluate the explanations as to why people obey authority. After the Nazi's justified genocide by saying that they were simply following orders, a psychologist named Stanley Milgram (1963) decided to carry out a study to try to answer the question of how far individuals would go with regards to obedience to orders. According to Milgram, obedience is a basic element in the structure of social life and that a system of authority is required in all communal living. Whether or not this is an harmonious component, be it responded to with defiance or submission, it is an...

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