Many people live life in fear of being judged. Our efforts to be treated equally however, are always beaten down by discrimination. Every passing second, someone in the world is becoming a victim of discrimination. In America the war on discrimination is still raging on. Our effort sometimes lead to the question, Will we ever truly dispose of discrimination? Although we might be able to lessen the amount of attacks of discrimination the unfortunate truth to the question is no, humans are entitled to their own thoughts and actions, even if those thoughts and actions are used to harm others. The harming effects of discrimination leaves many people emotionally hurt and sometimes physically injured, all of which can scar an individual with long …show more content…
Zimbardo would then go out of his way to have kind,intelligent, and compassionate individuals try out for his experiment, when all participants were accounted for, he appointed half the participants as prisoners and half as guards, appointing himself as the warden (The Stanford Prison Experiment). He then allowed these guards to do whatever they pleased, except for physically abuse the participants. To his shock he found that all his once kind, compassionate participants were becoming into ravenous monsters that had no idea of the true damage they were causing to the other participants, Zimbardo himself began to feel these effects. Zimbardo ended the experiment early due to these effects and the mental well being of the participants being in jeopardy . When interviewing the participants he found, that these guards did truly feel remorse, but knew they had to please the higher officials in order to feel accomplished (The Stanford Prison Experiment). From what Zimbardo could infer he came up with a theory. As humans we all have our own morals, however some morals we learn through our surroundings and what we are told is right and what is wrong, we do as we are told because we are forced to believe that this is an everyday “norm”(Stanford Prison