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Quote by Stanley Milgram
The essence of obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as the instrument for carrying out another person's wishes.
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The quote presents obedience as more than simply following an instruction. It says a person begins to see himself as a tool used to carry out someone else’s wishes. In this view, the obedient person treats the other person’s aims as the guiding force, while his own role is limited to helping make those aims happen.
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- Harper’s Magazine, “The Perils of Obedience”
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