Write an essay on Utilitarianism.

Write an essay on Utilitarianism.
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Milgram’s experiments were later replicated in Munich, Germany, where 85% of the subjects (the teachers) were found to be completely “obedient to authority.”
Milgram himself said of this experiment in an article “The Perils of Obedience”:
“The legal and philosophic aspects of obedience are of enormous import, but they say very little about how most people behave in concrete situations.
“I set up a simple experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered to by an experimental scientist.
“Stark authority was pitted against the subjects’ [participants’] strongest moral imperatives against hurting others, and, with the subjects’ [participants’] ears ringing with the screams of the victims, authority won more often than not.
“The extreme willingness of adults to go to almost any lengths on the command of an authority constitutes the chief finding of the study and the fact most urgently demanding explanation.”
Should Milgram have subjected people to these experiments?
Keep in mind that Milgram had a goal: to learn the degree to which ordinary citizens are obedient to authority. Given that goal, was he morally justified in terms of Rule Utilitarianism in subjecting people to this experiment to achieve that goal? Explain.

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