Comparative Analysis Obedience to authority and the willingness to obey an authority against one's morals has been a topic of debate for decades. Stanley Milgrim, a Yale psychologist, conducted a study in which his subjects were commanded by a person in authority to deliver lethal shocks to a student; his experiment is discussed in detail in the article “The Dangers of Obedience” (Milgrim 77). Milgrim's studies are said to be the most "influential and controversial studies in modern psychology" (Levine). While the thinnest actually received no fatal shocks, one actor pretended to be in great pain, and 60% of the subjects were completely obedient, despite evidence showing that they believed what they were doing was harming another human being (Milgrim 80). Similarly, Dr. Zimbardo, a psychology professor at Stanford University, conducted an experiment, explained in his article “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” in which ten guards had to stop prisoners from starting to mistreat them, not physically. , but emotionally and psychologically, taking advantage of the power and authority given to them by the experimenter (Zimbardo 109). The crimes of obedience and mistreatment of other human beings are not only found in Milgrim and Zimbardo's experiments. In 1968, American troops massacred over 500 villagers in My Lai. The incident is described by social psychologist Herbert C. Kelman and sociologist V. Lee Hamilton in the article "The My Lai Massacre: a Crime of Obedience". Lieutenant William Calley, accused of 102 murders, claims that he followed the orders of his superiors, only fulfilling his duty, which is also a theme throughout the film, A Few Good Men. After receiving a request from William Santiago, a Marine on his base, to be transferred, Jessup refuses. The film depicts, through Colonel Jessup's authority, the refusal to obey a reasonable request as well as the pride one has in fulfilling one's duty.