
The Stanford Prison Experiment
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Prisons Are Satistic Institutions
Two guards quit the study. One o quit because he didn't like how harsh the training was. The act of being assigned as a guard for another human being is intrinsically satistic. Trying to replicate even your vaguest understanding of what prison guardship is like, means encouraging the roots of sadism. When there's more ways for prisoners to participate in the conditions of their imprisonment it actually ends up much less dehumanizing.
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