Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View

What is a good citizen capable of doing in obedience to an order? Thinking about the tens of thousands of people in Nazi Germany who sent their own kind to death, just doing their duty, prompted Stanley Milgram to think about a provocative experiment. The behavior of the subjects during different variations of the experiment invariably confirmed Milgram's terrible guesses: some participants in the tests severely "punished" others, not using their right to refuse. The paradox is that such vi...