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Have you ever done something you didn't want too?  Well, having a job, that happens every morning when the alarm goes off.  But, looking back at history, people have done incredibly evil things simply because they were asked to do so.  At Nuremberg, the standard defence was that "I was following orders".  It seems like a weak defence when you are defending the indefensible.  But what, just if, it was true?  What if, you were asked really nicely?  In the 1960's, Stanley Milgram created the "Obedience to Authority Figures" test, now known as The Milgram Experiment, to find out just that. 

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