I find it hard to pick one topic of discussion. But there are several topics in

particular, about which I have mixed feelings. Though they are all very unique

topics on their own, they, for some reason, compliment each other well. From

what we learned in class and through readings, the issues I will discuss are

alarming and a bit disturbing to me. These topics are obedience, the lack of

altruism and helping in our society, conformity, mental illnesses and suicides.

Obedience can be seen in the earliest cultures known to man; from King

Herod ordering soldiers to kill baby boys who were two years of age or younger,

to present day, where such travesties as Wako and Heaven's Gate. Perhaps the

most amazing feat of mass obedience was in World War II, when Hitler

"controlled" his soldiers and followers to kill over six million people. This is

indeed a horrifying thought- but it is not just a thought, it is reality.

In a study conducted by Stanley Milgram, subjects were told they were a

factor in a learning experiment of another subject. Whenever the learning subject

answered incorrectly to the posed question

themselves. And that hardly anyone has the audacity to go against the

may not even be able to go to work or do housework because they are so sad and

helping, which is equally alarming. The story of Kitty Genovese, the girl living in

it has caused some people to develop it. It just makes me so angry to see a little

because it was so clear that the given answer was incorrect. Thirty-six and eight

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