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The Pros And Cons Of Prison Experiments

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In the basement of Stanford University’s psychology wing, ten volunteers were stripped of their everyday clothes and dressed in prison jumpsuits. The other eleven were placed guard uniforms. With no rules except no physical punishment, the guards felt they were authorized to demand the prisoners to complete pointless and physically exhausting tasks. By the time the experiment was cut short on the sixth day, one man had to be removed and the prisoners had barricaded themselves in the cells. The students had surprisingly filled out the roles that had been randomly assigned to them. Every person is a battleground for good and evil. If evil is not checked by reason and order, it will destroy the individual and potentially harm society. William
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