Just Do What the Pilot Tells You :: Comparative, Stanley Milgram, Theodore Darymple

Stanley Milgrams experiments on bow are the focus of Theodore Dalrymple and Ian Parker. Theodore Dalrymple is a British physician that composed his views of the Milgram experiment with Just Do What the Pilot Tells You in the New Statesman in July 1999 (254). He distinguishes between blind obedience and blind disobedience stating that an extreme of either is not good, and that a healthy balance between the two is needed. On the other hand, Ian Parker is a British source who wrote Obedience for an issue of Granta in the fall of 2000. He discusses the location of the experiment as a major factor and how the experiment progresses to prevent more outcomes. Dalrymple uses real-life events to film his argument while Parker exemplifies logic from professors to state his lead. Dalrymple starts his essay by stating that some people view opposition to leave to be principled and also amative (254). The social worker Dalrymple mentions on the airplane with him is a prime example that certai n people can be naturally against authority, but she quickly grants authority to the pilot to fly the plane (255). Dalrymple also mentions his studies under a physician and that Dalrymple would listen to her because she had far greater expanse of knowledge than him (256). Ian Parker writes his essay explaining the failed logic with Stanley Milgrams experiment and expounds on other aspects of the experiment. One of his points is the situations location which he describes as inescapable (238). Another focus of Parkers article is how Milgrams experiment affected his career the experiment played a role in Milgrams inability to acquire full support from Harvard professors to earn promote (234). Dalrymple states that he obeyed his superior because she was more knowledgeable over her job (256). The Milgram experiment demonstrates how ordinary people act towards authority in certain situations. Dalrymple accurately utilizes that point by describing when a boy is turned in for trying to ste al a car and then the parents proceed to yell at the guards. The guards began to stop reporting kids because they wanted to avoid the conflict all together (257). Parker agrees with Dalrymple by explicating that the experimenter alludes to conflict when the teacher wants to discontinue the experiment, but stumbles to rebel when dictated to continue (238). Parkers consequence is to offer a button for the teachers to press when they are no longer able to continue the experiment (238).