Why Is The Simulated Prison Experiment Ethical

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Daniel,
This is a sound post you made this week. For the first question in your forum answering you went into detail and explained the idea why the prison experiment was ethical in your judgement and opinion. After going through what you typed I agreed myself with what you had to say for it. These students gave full consent to be prisoners, or the possibility to be guards, for an experiment that required them to be in a simulated prison environment for Dr. Zimbardo’s psychological study. The prisoners were pushed to their mental breaking point, in which I too saw was necessary for the experiment to be conducted effectively, and when need be they students were given a pardon. When Dr. Zimbardo took the back seat to some of the actions that