GS4 · UPSC Mains

Stanley Milgram, an American psychologist conducted a scientific experiment to demonstrate how someone in a position of authority can influence people to behave unethically and against their wishes, proved that subjects often performed actions that were unethical when ordered to by a person in authority. It happened in case of German dictator Adolf Hitler also who ordered the killing of millions of people during World War II and could produce obedience. Civil servants are generally both victims and perpetrators of this power of authority. Discuss how. What would be your course of action when stuck in a similar situation?

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Divya Mishra—Forumiasp.29
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