Why Is The Milgram Experiment Morally Wrong

This idea that perhaps seemingly “good” people can be able to ignore what is obviously morally wrong led me to an article about an interesting experiment: The Milgram experiment. This experiment, developed and run by Stanley Milgram, took place at Yale University in 1961. Milgram’s experiment consisted of having volunteers from a diverse range of backgrounds and occupations individually brought into a room and sat at a table with an array of levers. Across from this volunteer was another person who knew about the parameters of the experiment, who was strapped into a fake electric chair. A “scientist” in a lab coat would come in and tell the volunteer that he or she was to administer increasingly powerful shocks to the individual in the chair.