"The experiment requires that you go on."

[qb]

How could U.S. soldiers commit such depraved acts? Stanley Milgram knows.

http://home.swbell.net/revscat/perilsOfObedience.html

[TahitiNut]

1. Most relevant is the Stanford Prison Experiment.

Power. Corrupts. Absolutely.

[QC]

2. Good point.

Though many of us like to insist that we would never, ever do anything mean just because someone told us to, the evidence strongly suggests otherwise.

[On the Road]

3. One of My Favorite Experiments

although the soliders abusing the prisoners actually seemed to enjoy what they were doing.

[damnraddem]

4. Later Milgram experiments showed that when resistance was modeled, ...

experimental subjects found it easier to rebel.

The experiments themselves abused their human subjects -- they would not, at least should not, be approved by Institutional Review Boards nowdays.