Although this experiment is over 30 years old‚ it strikingly resembles the events that occurred in Abu Ghraib prison‚ Iraq in 2003. It was there‚ where detainees were humiliated‚ abused‚ and degraded by American Soldiers. Images of abuse soon appeared online‚ and spread viral across the world. Almost immediately the United States military defensively stated
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mankind. While one might not see themselves capable of committing acts of torture towards others‚ and possibly killing another human being‚ experiments and real historical events have proven that there is a gruesome side within human beings expressed when placed in a position of power or control. Those who are not in that position expect those who are to act with a moral conscience‚ but it is easier said than done. The Abu Ghraib scandal and Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison experiment demonstrate the powerful
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prisoners faced torture for many years before being released‚ and most of them were banned from contacting anyone in the outside world. The truth about Guantanamo was revealed after one of its prisoners filed a law suit against the US Government saying that Guantanamo broke the rules of the Geneva Convention. Media blackout on Guantanamo lasted for several years until this law suit and then the whole world media attention was turned towards the truth about Guantanamo bay. The third example is Abu Ghuraib
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information of what a soldier should and should not do to a captive‚ clearly was not communicated. Another issue that was proposed in the Stanford Prison Simulation was the disproportion of guards to prisoner’s‚ which was also a grand issue in the Abu Ghraib scandal. Few reinforcements with a mass of captives will cause an exhaustive effort to deal with the captives‚ therefore causing distress and frustration already to a scenario which already has a biased skew towards the captives. Training and in-depth
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Reflection #7 Ghost of Abu Ghraib Filmmaker Rory Kennedy takes us thru a firsthand accord of Abu-Ghraib‚ a prison where Saddam Hussein housed his prisoners but during the Iraqi war U.S soldiers took hold of this prison using it as their own prison for suspected terrorist and people they believed to be aiding terrorist. However what went on behind the walls of this prison was nothing less than admiral behavior‚ on the part of the soldiers. Prisoners were abused‚ humiliated and treated as if
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he Lucifer Effect raises a fundamental question about the nature of human nature: How is it possible for ordinary‚ average‚ even good people to become perpetrators of evil? In trying to understand unusual‚ or aberrant behavior‚ we often err in focusing exclusively on the inner determinants of genes‚ personality‚ and character‚ as we also tend to ignore what may be the critical catalyst for behavior change in the external Situation or in the System that creates and maintains such situations. I challenge
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In the beginning of the documentary it showed an experiment that was conducted in 1961‚ by a psychologist from Yale University named Dr. Stanley Milgram. The purpose of this “obedience study” was to observe an individual’s willingness to inflict pain when ordered to do so. The participants were required to use a machine to shock other person in a different room. What the participants did not know that the shocks were fake and the victim was an actor. Despite the fact that the participants knew that
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liable. In Abu Ghraib in Iraq‚ prisoners were the victims of torture‚ rape‚ and homicide committed by the United States police and army. In many of the tortures‚ the prisoners were stripped naked. One was hung by his wrists with his hands tied behind his back‚ another leashed like a dog‚ another who is sat on between two stretchers‚ and many were faced with physical‚ psychological‚ and sexual abuse. Racism‚ religion‚ and sexism are factors that contributed to the behavior of the Abu Ghraib prison guards
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Dear Mike Hum The article “Is Abu Ghraib the military version of reality TV?” is unpleasant to read. It tries to give the reader‚ the vision that US soldiers in this period are not responsible for their actions on torturing of other peoples (Iraqis) but rather the orders in chief. The soldiers act was because of hypothetical imperative and not by their own desires. This is total disagreeable. The most categorical imperative act is when your own life is at risk and to save it you must commit things
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lends itself as a vehicle for political agenda. A recent example would be Fernando Botero’s series‚ Abu Ghraib‚ which is based on the torturous events that took place by US soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The series is a sharp contrast from the whimsical and oversized imagery Botero is best known for‚ and depicts the truculent abuse inmates were subjected to while in Abu Ghraib. Abu Ghraib 44 (2005); Oil on Canvas‚ shows a prisoner stripped of his undergarments and hanging from the ceiling
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