
The Stanford Prison Experiment
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Prisons
The study didn't do anything for our knowledge about prisons, but it did teach us a lot about what we as americans wanted to hear and believe about what human beings were like in 19 71. The idea that it's possible to have a prison whose guards aren't engaging in sadism, i think is actually appears to be pretty absent from the American mind. Based on thi study, and my response to it meens an bardo, we're the same. And i feel we might just be reliant on the concept of needing to have certain kind of people who can murder whenever they want.
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