Decline and Fall

I was remiss in not mentioning the Stanford Prison Experiment along with the Milgram Experiments in my post yesterday. (But Dakota Feinstein caught it.)

In the summer of 2004, we watched this video in the prison where I worked, followed by a discussion. Distressingly few of my colleagues took it seriously. That was one of the first examples of the disturbing reactions I alluded to below.

It should not be so difficult to get people to acknowledge that evil acts committed in the name of something good are still evil.

Labels: GWOT, interrogation, torture