In my senior year of college I was in a Social Psychology class. We had gone over the Milgram studies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment)as well as the Stanford prison experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment), so we were quite informed about people just "following orders". We had another teacher come to our class (our professor had let us know that this other teacher wanted to use our class for an experiement for a study he was doing related to birds). He asked all of us to remember exactly where our chairs were, and then asked us to get up and face the walls. He moved some of the desks & chairs around and then told us to take our chair and put it exactly where it should be. So, some people had to put their chairs on tables, some chairs were left where they had been. Then he asked us to take our chairs and for all girls to sit facing the windows and all boys to sit facing the wall. He then asked us to put our hand on the shoulder of the person to our left. He then got completely flustered and said that he had to go right now and ran out the door with all his "findings". We were all confused, some people thought he was crazy, but I asked if this was a joke or a test to see if we would do silly things. It was. The REAL experiement was to see if we would follow orders, which we all did. But my objections now are the same as then; we were not put in dangerous situations, we were not asked to harm another human being as was done in those other two studies I mentioned. We all did follow orders, but being asked to move your chair around the room or touch someone's shoulder is not quite the same as shocking someone until they appear dead, or forcing someone to act as a prisoner and degrading them until they have a mental breakdown.