Even if people call themselves individuals and claim to do what they want, it is in their coding to follow a simple order from a superior even if they oppose their own judgment. In a simple experiment, like the one performed by Stanley Milgram, a single command can make or break your own perception of yourself. Although command is not mandatory, as shown by the marines in the film A Few Good Men, orders can be extremely difficult not to follow. A Few Good Men depicts the trial of two Marines, Private First Class Louden Downey and Lance. Corporal Harold W. Dawson, who had been ordered to execute a "Code Red" on a fellow Marine, Private First Class William T. Santiago. Stanley Miligram, a psychologist in the 1970s who wanted to test obedience in humans, believed that authority was the key to obedience. To test his theory, he developed an experiment in which a "teacher", a volunteer who knew nothing about the real experiment, asked a "learner", an actor, questions about whether the actor got the question wrong , he would be shocked. As long as the experimenter asked them to continue, they shocked the learner to the full extent of 450 volts. Just as Dawson and Downey knew what they were doing would harm Santiago, the teachers in Miligram's experiment knew they were harming the learner, but they all continued. How far can you go until an order goes too far? When does an order become too difficult to follow? The teachers in Milgram's experiment were not forced to continue, the experimenter did not take their hands and pull them down, he simply told them to continue. Viewing the experimenter as an authority figure, the teacher continued. It has occurred to us to follow anyone who seems to have authority over it, whether because we seem to be in the middle of paper......in the full extent of the picture (Miligram, 2) . From a young age, children learn to do whatever an adult tells them to do. As adults, they learn that they must do whatever someone from higher authority tells them to do. They are taught from the beginning to listen and obey. Maybe not to the extent we see it in Miligram's experiment or A Few Good Men, but it's there. It's almost an impulse to obey everything we're told, regardless of the consequences. Works Cited Encia, Georgio. “The Milgram Experiment on Obedience to Authority.” Milgram's experiment on obedience to authority. University of California, November 15, 2004. Web. December 4, 2013.A few good men. Real. Rob Reiner. Prod. Rob Reiner, David Brown and Andrew Scheinman. By Aaron Sorkin. Perf. Columbia Pictures, 1992. DVD. Stanley, Milgram. “Behavioral study of obedience” Wikipedia: Web. December 12. 2013.