Being negligent vs. human psychology

This documentary was extremely thought provocative in the context that it was able to explain and hinder behind the psychological and scientifical background of human behavior, interaction, and reaction to complex situations that influence the way we think and take action. Everyone has different reactions and a good majority of the students in my classroom found it incredibly hard to grasp anyone being what seems to be “negligent” in situations where we are obviously exposed to gruesome and inhuman acts. To be anywhere near morally correct, we are believed to take action when we see ourselves and others around us, in danger. This is particularly sticky because we are not all the same in moral and ethical matters, we all react and psychologically process things rather differently than one another. In the Shock Experiment, conducted by Stanley Milgram, for example, some of the objectives used to conduct whether or not human obedience was influenced by higher authorative figures, many of the individuals had different reactions despite their similar outcomes. While sending extreme shock waves to what appeared to be other humans in the next room, these objectives were to obey to what they were being told. Some giggled in nervousness while others found no emotional attachment to hearing the painful cries and screams after pressing the shock button. Others found themselves confused or incredibly distraught to what they heard afterwards as the shock wave levels of torture continued to increase. This experiment made it clearly evident that despite manipulative or provocative factors that seem to influence our actions, we all react differently. As many of my classmates, watched in horrid fear of the college student who had voluntarily decided to reject watching his best friend sexually harass and violate a young child, myself being among one of them, I still thought it was crucial to understand the position in which this man was placed. No, I am not speaking on moral or ethical terms, however in the matter of biological and psychological human reaction. I am not defending the witness and the criminal himself, nor am I turning my head away from the victim: an innocent child who most likely had her childhood stolen away from her in a matter of minutes, however, I would like to propose the importance of really pursuing in in-depth and critical thinking. Sure, morally, it was the wrong thing to do yet do we still have the chance to set asids our morals and values, and put ourselves in perspective? Something so quick and sudden, does the human mind have the capacity of processing such situations in such a quick amount of time? If it has been scientifically proven that we all carry different reactions to certain situations, should we take time to think about the complexity behind our biological mind processment or simply make it as simple and vile as pointing out whether this young man’s reaction was “good” or “bad?”