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    #32
    FatherLen
    Registered Users Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    Mahatma coat wrote: »
    Well in that Situation then YES, YES YES YES :D:D

    Basicly there is someone with the authority to Sanction you Torturing and possibly Murdering another Human being.

    If you can Kill the person in the other room without fear of Legal ramifications then I'm all on for it, hell I'd quit my dayjob to comit more time to it.

    Altho I'd probably get bored with not being able to see them so I'd probably ask to shake things up a bit, maybe do someone with a knife, or re enact that scene from the Killing Fields to See how long it really takes to kill someone with a blue plastic Bag, ya know in keeping witht teh initial 'Scientific' nature of the study

    your even weird for AH.


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    #33
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,318 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    I find this sort of thing extremely interesting. We are more easily led than we think. The Stanford prison experiment was another interesting one.
    The Stanford prison experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard.
    The experiment was conducted from Aug. 14-20, 1971 by a team of researchers led by Psychology professor Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University.
    Twenty-four students were selected out of 75 to play the prisoners and live in a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. Roles were assigned randomly.
    The participants adapted to their roles well beyond what even Zimbardo himself expected, leading the "Officers" to display authoritarian measures and ultimately to subject some of the prisoners to torture. In turn, many of the prisoners developed passive attitudes and accepted physical abuse, and, at the request of the guards, readily inflicted punishment on other prisoners who attempted to stop it. The experiment even affected Zimbardo himself, who, in his capacity as "Prison Superintendent," lost sight of his role as psychologist and permitted the abuse to continue as though it were a real prison.
    Five of the prisoners were upset enough by the process to quit the experiment early, and the entire experiment was abruptly stopped after only six days. The experimental process and the results remain controversial.
    The entire experiment was filmed, with excerpts soon made publicly available, leaving some disturbed by the resulting film.
    Over 30 years later, Zimbardo found renewed interest in the experiment when the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal occurred.

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