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I agree with you. I feel like I would also be one of the good guards. I agree with you on the part about the good guards being scared of the bad guards. I feel like I would stick up to the tough or bad guards if they were treating the prisoners very cruelly because no one deserves to be treated like that. No one should be beat for any reason, even if that reason is that they are being beat for someone’s own amusement. I also thought this experience was not

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