I thourouly enjoyed watching Clockwork Orange! I loved the way that the moving highlights conditioning. It was very similar Pavlov's experiment. He used food in order to make a dog salivate. Then during the conditioning process he would use the neutral stimilus, the musical tone, before placing the food. After the tone and food were paired several times, the tone alone would elicit the salivation in the dog. In Clockwork orange, the researches paired a chemical that caused pain, classical music and violence. After several times, the act of violence or just the sound of classical music would cause pain or sickness. We saw that the experiment work when the patient started to grab the woman's breast, but stopped because of pain. I found this experiment to be extremely interesting. The only question is whether or not this is ethical. Many people believed it was unethical because it robbed him of his free will. I personally don't see a problem with it. If we can effectively reduce the number of criminals in the world then why not? The world would be a much more peaceful place. I believe that if a person does not know how to live in society without committing reckless and heartless crimes, then they deserve to have there free will taken away. Overall I learned a lot from this movie and it helped me better understand conditioning.
Once you get past the vulgarity of the film, Clockwork Orange is thoroughly interesting and tries to prove a good point. I agree with Sasha that the world would definitely be more peaceful with such a dramatic reduction of criminals. However, I'm not sure that their way of going about ridding the world of those criminals was ethical enough to follow through with. I don't think I would go so far as to saying a person's free will can be taken away. I think that conditioning can and would work, but I don't necessarily think that anyone has the right to apply the conditioning they used whenever they deem necessary. It would be hard for any one person, or even a group of people, to decide if and how they would begin implementing a real-life Clockwork Orange situation.
I thourouly enjoyed watching Clockwork Orange! I loved the way that the moving highlights conditioning. It was very similar Pavlov's experiment. He used food in order to make a dog salivate. Then during the conditioning process he would use the neutral stimilus, the musical tone, before placing the food. After the tone and food were paired several times, the tone alone would elicit the salivation in the dog. In Clockwork orange, the researches paired a chemical that caused pain, classical music and violence. After several times, the act of violence or just the sound of classical music would cause pain or sickness. We saw that the experiment work when the patient started to grab the woman's breast, but stopped because of pain. I found this experiment to be extremely interesting. The only question is whether or not this is ethical. Many people believed it was unethical because it robbed him of his free will. I personally don't see a problem with it. If we can effectively reduce the number of criminals in the world then why not? The world would be a much more peaceful place. I believe that if a person does not know how to live in society without committing reckless and heartless crimes, then they deserve to have there free will taken away. Overall I learned a lot from this movie and it helped me better understand conditioning.
ReplyDeleteOnce you get past the vulgarity of the film, Clockwork Orange is thoroughly interesting and tries to prove a good point. I agree with Sasha that the world would definitely be more peaceful with such a dramatic reduction of criminals. However, I'm not sure that their way of going about ridding the world of those criminals was ethical enough to follow through with. I don't think I would go so far as to saying a person's free will can be taken away. I think that conditioning can and would work, but I don't necessarily think that anyone has the right to apply the conditioning they used whenever they deem necessary. It would be hard for any one person, or even a group of people, to decide if and how they would begin implementing a real-life Clockwork Orange situation.
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