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In response to Stanford Prison Experiment Video Post:

WOW! Some experiment. Now, as to what the experiment teaches or doesn’t teach is the ultimate question.

It has been 35+ years since that experiment was done. There have been loads of changes in the prison system since the Stanford experiment. So, what happens today when you put good people in a bad situation? Well, there are a lot of factors that affect how that good person will react. For example, I know a person who was an exemplary citizen and that individual ended up serving 2 years in a state facility. That person was considered a model inmate, worked in the law library, and when released became heavily involved in criminal law and the justice system.

So, I think that how a person reacts to that environment depends a great deal on how their inner psyche has developed. I do not believe that most “good” people will deliberately injure someone simply because a person in authority has told them to do so.

I have many examples from a life of military and exposure to criminal inmates that debunk that ideology.  But, those are simply my thoughts.  GREAT video.

Betty
Student
Ashworth University School Of Health Care

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