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This is hard question to answer. I would like to think that I would be a nice guard, having a neutral respectful relationship with the prisoners. On the other hand I think the guards had their own responsibility to appear to be authority figures. The experiment may have went differently if all the guards were more passive or timid. Truthfully, there's just no way of knowing which guard I would be. One of the guards in the experiment said that he never dreamed he would be capable of treating people that way but in that setting, under those stressful circumstances he did and seemed to be ashamed to a degree. 3) It could've been a number of things. They may not have wanted to seem weak to the other guards. It may have been so that the prisoners wouldn't notice that the individual was kind of the weak link, giving them the opportunity to take advantage of it somehow. It was an experiment, and All the individuals were thrown into these situations, I would venture to say that most people would ...
The Eternal Struggle Aggression. Bloodshed. Pain. Death. These are just some of the unfortunate side affects which accompany the phenomenon of life. These factors are also intertwined with the methodical process of evolution, which, although often cruel and merciless, is nonetheless beneficial to any species of animal, including,...
should be illegal if you are going to go out and have unprotected sex, then you should be willing to take responsibility for your actions. The unborn child that is conceived has done no wrong and shouldn't have to suffer because of the mothers actions. Women shouldn't have a "right" to kill their preborn child. The word "choice" shouldn't be u...
The world's population is approximately 5.9 billion, and it is still growing. It has just about doubled in the past forty years. We are now faced with the issue of over population. The problem is very severe, and important. It is controversial how many people this planet can hold. Some are arguing that we have plenty of roo...
Capital punishment has not simply taken its toll upon lives, though also society. Throughout history, the general purpose of execution was a last resort to criminal punishment or to see fit the severity of the crime. Though due to the fashions of society, racism crept its ways into this form of punishment and transformed it into a form of famil...
The issue of the relationship between the mass media and the popular culture has always been a controversial issue in social sciences. While the political economists insist on the role of the media industry in the creation of this phenomenon of the twentieth century, its advocates such as John Fiske argue that popular culture is actually the c...
