Essays on Obedience

One of the biggest criticisms on obedience or conformity is the morality. It is believed that conformity or complete obedience may lead a human to commit a crime. Most of the great atrocities of the human history have been described as crimes of obedience. Human…

The Milgram Obedience Experiment Recation The Milgram Obedience Experiment was conducted in 1961-1962 and the ethically disturbing and questionable experimental methods, demonstrated in British TV-host Derrin Brown’s Milgram Obedience Experiment reenactment, caught the attention of many people around the world including myself. During the experiment…

Heaven’s Gate Cult To what extent can conformity, obedience, and pluralistic ignorance be observed in the events involving Heaven’s Gate cult? The Heaven’s Gate cult was one most of the prominent cults in the world because of the events involving it. On March 26, 1997,…

Introduction In The Insanity of Obedience, Nik Ripken seeks to explain how a Christian believer is able to maintain a healthy, personal relationship with Jesus Christ in the face of persecution. Ripken illustrates several examples of Christians maintaining their testimony while suffering beneath the burdens…