Krishnamurti & Milgram, should Authority ever be Obeyed?

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Krishnamurti thought that conditioning prevents us from seeing the truth. In this sense he seemed to feel that we need to resist authority, and to be set free from believing what we are told. Milgram also believed, and proved, that we are able to be manipulated by someone in authority to commit up to and even including the most atrocious act, murder. Milgram showed in some respects, how something like the atrocities of the Third …

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…another human being, I think the other 15% of those people recognize that the only authority they should ever answer to is that which they know to be theirs, and right. Whether you believe in God or not, (I do personally) we still have an inherent system of knowing what is right and wrong, and if we don't hide behind some 'authority" hading us edicts about how we should behave, this would be a different world.