 How are these studies supposed to tell against the widespread possession of the virtue of compassion? It isn’t just that they show people behaving less than virtuously in all three experimental situations. After all, when participants found a dime, or when participants were alone in the next room, they did tend to help. In another version of the Milgram setup, when participants at the 150 volt level heard commands from two authority figures which contradicted either other, they immediately stopped at that level or one more level above it (Milgram 1974: 95, 105–107).