It is necessary, in a sense, for the greater good. However, Baumrind's vision of the experiment is much more compelling. He points out the many flaws in Milgram's experiment. His first main point is that the experiments are causing serious emotional problems. Although Baumrind has no evidence that the experiment was causing emotional and physiological effects on the subjects, he quotes Milgram: "On one occasion we observed an attack so violently convulsive that it was necessary to interrupt the experiment" (qtd. in Baumrind 422). Baumrind is a firm believer that people should not be harmed, emotionally or physically, for the sake of an experiment. Furthermore the experiment was very misleading, people were not told exactly what they were doing. The main problem of the experiment is the ease with which Milgram manages to look so deeply into the results that he does not grasp the problem of lies and manipulation, which is a real problem, not
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