Stanley Milgram argues "In the Peril of Obedience" that individual's inherited "obedience" to authority often surpasses their "moral" conscience and compassion.
             He organizes a test at Yale University; to see how much pain one individual will give to another. He asks two individuals to come to the school for a test of "memory and learning."
             One is assigned as the instructor and the other as the student. The instructor reads a set of words to the student to see if the student can remember the next word of the set. If the student is wrong they get an "electric shock."
             The student goes to a room and is put in a "miniature electric chair", and has an "electrical" device wrapped around their wrist.
             After watching the student being tied down, the instructor convenes behind an "impressive shock generator that consists of thirty level switches" that has a current flow of "15 to 450 volts" and sits next to the person that who administers the current.
             What the instructor doesn't realize, is the student is a performer and does not get "shocked", and that they are the focal point of the test to see how long they will continue to "obey" the specialist, even if the student is in anguish.
             Tensions start to rise when the student starts pretending the currents bother them to a point where they stop their squeals of distress. The instructor becomes compassionate and wants to stop; however the specialist tells them to continue.
             One instructor politely declines to proceed; because it is obvious the student is uncomfortable. Even thought the specialist is adamant to go on, they politely decline.
             Another instructor starts to panic because of the lack of reaction by student. Unexpectedly, they begin answering the questions themselves. After witnessing this for a while the specialist halts the te
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