2011년 11월 2일 수요일

Milgrim Experiment

The way experiment was set up was simple. There will be two volunteers, each placed in different room but able to hear each other. Man1 attach electric shocker to his right arm (man2 sees this). Man2 will go to the other room and press electric shock switch whenever man1 gets the wrong answer. What man2 doesn't know is that man1 will take off the electric shocker on his hand and turn on voice recorder that was recorded before hand. Man1 will purposely answer many questions wrong and man2 will increase the power of voltage shock. According to experiment result man2 is putted under immense mental stress but about 60~65% of the people will continue to press until "certain death" voltage. The reason they do is simple its because they were told that they won't be held responsible for any harm done to man1.
This action can be explained in agency theory and ethics. Ethically man2 knows that when man1 pleads to stop he should stop (that's what other 35~40% people does). However man2 is not without choice. He has a free will according to agency theory. A) Man2 will stop the shock B) Man2 will continue the shock. Agent, which is man2, chooses either action A or B. Although outer pressure or other factors might exist it is agent who is making the decision. According to UC, every event is part of a cause. In Action B UC will work since an event, continue shock, was caused by another cause. However UC doesnt work for Action A since action A is an event that will lead to another event.

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