blog assignment #5

http://youtube.com/watch?v=n_O74wvsbSs

"For all its imperfections, conscience is the most important single guide to right and wrong an individual can have"(45, Ruggiero). Morally, our conscience will be the best means to an answer concerning most life decisions. The text states that listening to your moral conscience may be the most plausible answer but other choices can be good too if the consequences are well analyzed, but most people shy away from gut feelings anyway in exchange for orders from an authority figure. We are situationally influenced as the video I have chosen to represent this chapter shows. Whether or not we know that the action taken is in moral standing or not, most will ignore their own code of ethics to satisfy authority or complete a job. In the video I have chosen an experiment that was done by a man named Milgram in the 1960's. Experiments began in July 1961, three months after the start of the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Milgram devised the experiments to answer this question: "Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices?" In the experiment two out of three tested stuck to orders to continue shocking despite screams coming from the subject being electrically shocked. Our conscience and our ability to relentlessly follow orders, despite our conscience, clash on a day to day basis.

4. In a separate paragraph, tell me how many points you believe your efforts deserve--in argument form! For example:
Arguable issue: whether or not this post deserves points...if yes, how many?
Conclusion: I believe that this post deserves 25 points.
Premises: this post deserves 25 points because:
(1) I followed all instructions given.
(2) I found an interesting video that related to the chapter on conscience.

(3)I described how the video related to the chapter to the best of my ability with specific examples.