The story is told of a man who was stranded at sea due to a storm that wrecked his ship. Out in the water, he prays, "Lord, Lord please save me!" Moments later, another ship takes notice of the man at sea and offers to rescue him. The man refuses, he says, "I'm waiting for […]

There was an interesting study done called the The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures. This was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. They measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. The […]