Having said all that, we humans are not as good people as we think we are. But as the experiments by Dr. Stanley Milgram prove, we humans are a nasty bunch. We are capable of extreme inhumane acts all the while patting ourselves on the back as “good, honest people.” In one experiment Dr. Milgram had a student tied to a chair in a room, with what looked like electric wires attached all over his body. Then he invited other students, standing behind a glass partition, to press a button that would shock the poor tied-up student! As they pressed the button, the young man would scream in pain. In reality, there was no electric shock, the young man was just pretending to be tortured, but the volunteers told to press the shock button did not know that. Watch now for more information :
