Thursday, April 22, 2010

Obedience to Authority



"For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. " - Romans 7:14-18

"If people are asked to render a moral judgment on what constitutes appropriate behavior in this situation, they unfailingly see disobedience as proper.  But values are not the only forces at work in an actual, ongoing situation. They are but one narrow band of cause in the total spectrum of forces impinging on a person" - pg 6

Stanley Milgram presents an interesting case in which people in his experiments are seen to