Obedience Is Acting Ethically Wrong

What makes ethical behaviors sometimes immoral? Obedience is one of the really good morals that everyone should have, one of the things that people are looking for in people around them and that parents wants their children to have. This valuable moral as much as it is really valued and wanted, sometimes is not the best thing to do; sometimes disobeying or saying “NO” is much better, but this does not mean that it lost its value and become unethical; rather it means that it is like any other thing it has both positive and negative ends to it. The effects of obedience were discussed in many articles and movies, some of these include but are not limited to: A Few Good Men, Opinions and Social Pressure by Solomon E. Ash, Obedience by Ian Parker,
Even when sometimes it might not be the best route to take, but others taking this route would save you a lot. Sometimes people does not agree with what has been said, told, or ordered, but they do it anyway to avoid getting their parents mad or losing their job for instance. In the article Just Do what the Piolet Tells You, written by Theodore Dalrymple, he was a young doctor like any other. He used to work under a physician, whom he thought was not doing the right thing to the patients, but still followed her orders. Dalrymple mentioned it in his article saying, “I was, of course only obeying orders… I was never sure in any individual case that she, not I, was doing the right thing” (121). He was not as much experienced as her, but he, using his common sense, felt that whatever she was doing was wrong, but he followed her orders anyway to avoid the consequences that might come in return to going against her orders. If he would have gone against her, he might have lost his job. Like people who decide to obey to avoid the consequences, there is other who decide to obey just to avoid being wrong. Solomon E. Asch, had the same concept idea as Dalrymple, that to avoid the consequences people followed the others, even when they were confident that the others were giving wrong answers. It was mentioned in his article, “I am wrong, they are always right” (144).
Saying yes to everything might make one look better, but might cause a lot of problems. For instance, if Dalrymple decided to disobey the physician and said that he would not follow the order she has given to him, he would have easily lost his job, same thing with Adam and Eve; if they would have followed god’s command, they would have never learned to rely on themselves. Obedience as much as it is a good moral, it can put people’s life in a huge danger, as it was revealed in the Milgram’s experiment. Obedience causes more harm and problems than disobedience; most of the harm, damage, and deaths that happened whether in the articles or the books could have not occurred, if they people disobeyed the orders given and did what they believe is the right thing. Yes, obedience is a good moral, and people should keep teaching it to their kids and they themselves should keep doing it, but it should never be overdone. One could save a situation while dealing with a little bit of consequences, rather than obeying and dealing with a huge consequence. Overall, obedience which is what most people think about being a virtue and moral, can be immoral if used to avoid consequences, and only to avoid consequences, while putting a person’s life in danger, and disobedience which people think of as immoral and vise can save a lot of people’s life while dealing with less consequences, since nothing can