Most people are readily willing to kill others when ordered to do so. This is the lesson from Stanley Milgram's famous experiments, which have become the subject of an important philosophical debate half a century after they were conducted. At the center of this debate is the concept of moral integrity, which suggests that a person's behavior is significantly determined by factors such as character, moral principles, and personal values. But how realistic is this notion when people seem largely influenced by the situation at the crucial moment? Hans Bernhard Schmid defends, using the example of Milgram's test subjects, the thesis that beyond the traditional alternative of internal and external control, it is the complex intersubjective relationships that influence human action in specific situations.