The Milgram experiments, conducted by Stanley Milgram, focused on obedience to authority, and the lengths to which a subject would go, when prodded by someone in there authority. This may not seem at all a morally significant issue, however, the experiments were carried out in such a way that they would be under sever scrutiny by the courts and by the general population if attempted in western society today.

The Milgram experiments, conducted in the U.S. in the 1960's, consisted of a subject, whom either volunteered or was selected, who was lorded by a laboratory official to administer increasingly higher amounts of electric shock to a victim who was sitting behind a screen in front of them. These subjects were told to follow out these orders until the victim had perished from this intense and inhumane treatment.

It is now widely known that Milgram had actually hired...