Today a word stuck in to my mind when i was going though some of the internet posts "The Milgram Experiment". When i dug more in to it, the facts were really interesting and shocking too. This was an experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram, an Yale University Professor to study about a subject's obedience to an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. I used to wonder about well educated people suddenly getting dragged into terrorism kind of activities where they never had any intention of doing the same in their early lives. I think this might be an answer to it. Read more about the experiment :