Stanley Milgram, conducted a study focused on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. According to the study, Migram suggested “that the obedience we naturally show to authority figures can transform us into agents of terror” (Migram, 1974/1994, p. 214). The Milgram experiment was developed to justify the act of genocide in World War II. Many of those complicit in the Holocaust claimed to have followed the order given by Adolf Eichmann. Obedience to superiors is rooted in the history of civil society, and no culture worthy of the name has existed without underlining the respect due to the legitimate authority of the duties of those in command. Milgram's study provides information that supports the fact that under a command of authority an adult is willing to go to great lengths to carry out the command. The experiment was about memory and learning. The participant consists of "teachers" who are told that the experiment is intended to explore the effects of punishment for an incorrect answer on learning behavior. Their role is to read a list of two pairs of words and the other participant reads them again. They are told they had 30 switches labeled with a voltage ranging from 15 to 450 volts with a rating from "mild shock" to "hazard." The other participant, the "student", who was an actor, was tied to a chair during the experiment and each time the response to the pair's word was incorrect, a wave of electroshock was administered in 15 volt increments. The teacher and student are in separate rooms during the experiment period. Even though the teacher could hear the student's responses to the different voltage range each time, the actor feigned discomfort with each increase in electrical voltage... halfway through the paper... the experiment was explained to the participant “teachers ”, it was clear to them what was expected of them and at that moment they could have refused to obey the experimenter. At the beginning of the experiment both participants were given the same voltage of electroshock and knew the discomfort it caused at 45 voltages. It is well known that humans are decision makers. In past years the use of electroshock in the experiment did not cure any of the diseases, caused more harm to the individual participant and decreased the quality of life. Danger to another human being is a moral decision. In the case of Stanley Milgram's study the “teachers” chose to continue the experiment of their own free will. In the case of the World War II genocide, people's lives were under the direction of authority and disobedience had many consequences..