here's how stanley millgram himself summed it up.listen. >> the results, as i observe them in the laboratory, are disturbing. they raise the possibility that human nature cannot be counted on to insulate man from brutality and inhumane treatment at the direction of malevolent authority. >> a lot of people who concluded do what they're told if they perceive the command comes from a legitimate authority. if a person they never met before can convince them to subdue a 50-year-old man with pain and shocks against his protests, mr. elms, what do you think that this experiment taught us about ourselves as a society? >> well, what it taught us essentially was in the words of the title of the novel by sinclair brutis, it can happen here. that is the main point, i think. we knew that things like that could happen in a place like germany during world war ii. but stanley showed that just average americans could potentially be obedient through destructive authority as well. and to what appeared to be very destructive authority. >> it's a fascina