>Milgram didn't persuade these people that science is good. He persuaded them that what they'd be asked to do was for science. ..which is something a volunteer

>Milgram didn't persuade these people that science is good. He persuaded them that what they'd be asked to do was for science. ..which is something a volunteer for a science test sees as a good thing. >In either case, it's far off from the "people follow orders" narrative. Indeed. I always took it along the lines of "when put in a setting where it's acceptable to harm others consequence-free, people need little to do so". This doesn't seem to contradict what you are saying.