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One of the things that made an impression on me in the Stanford Prison Experiment was the stripping of the prisoners personal identity. It was almost as if by tactically stripping each prisoner of the former identity they take away their morals and any sense of their former selves, or even being a human. The fact that these volunteers in the study could lose touch with the reality of the situation, and believe they were really imprisoned in only a matter of days is amazing. I think when people are broken down to this state, good and evil doesn’t apply, or at least have the same meaning. The people who are subjected to this seem to become more like animals than humans, and animals don’t think in terms of good or evil, just survival. The subjects become impulsive and instinctual. Survival is critical, and they do what needs to insure that. When broken down, and stripped of personal identity it’s as though they lose the ability to think critically, and become more like a pet operating in a incentive based way. I was surprised to learn how fast this actually happens from this study.
On the other hand was the guards. The guards were in a position to have the freedom to exercise actions that were either good or evil. In the beginning there were guards that were more good, and ones that were more evil, but it seems as the experiment went on the guards complied with their roles and the freedom lead to more evil acts. I think these acts of evil resulted from fear of the prisoners retaliating.
I think when you put good people in evil places, evil will triumph. Maybe not in all general cases, but in this particular case the way the imprisonment worked by stripping the prisoners of themselves and their human affiliation, it became like animals just trying to survive. The guards then in return assumed the role of trying to survive from the prisoners and because of fear their action became worse, therefore creating a continuous escalating cycle. This created an environment of hate, like the prisoner who spent time an extended time in solitary confinement, originally arrested for theft, now doesn’t think of stealing, because he no longer cares about wealth. His only interest has become killing the people who have dehumanized him daily and treated him in a way that is even cruel to treat a vicious dog.
This makes me think how scary it is that we humans can lose our convictions and beliefs so quickly. How strong our are personal identities? Our personal convictions, beliefs, and moral can be abandon, and forgotten so quickly. We humans can be broken down into something visceral and instinctual, so simple. All that natters is survival. It seems that fear causes actions that can result in an evil cycle.
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