Individuals think differently when it comes to obedience. One might think of how we train dogs to be obedient, another might relate obedience to punishing a child for breaking a rule, or even others think about Hitler's Regime in Germany. When it comes to obedience, there are several sides. Stanley Milgram's article, "Obedience to Authority," expresses his view of obedience as an intensely embedded behavioral tendency to obey where a potent impulse can override training in ethics, sympathy, and moral conduct. On the other hand, in the article "Review of Milgram's Experiments on Obedience," Diana Baumrind represents her view that contradicts Milgram's. Baumrind believes that obedient attitudes vary according to what is appropriate for the context.

Many different questions have been debated among authors over the years that connect to the issue of obedience since Milgram's landmark experiment. Three key issues that are discussed within the original articles...