re: The Abu Ghraib prison was pretty messed up

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No one there loved their country enough to go butt frick one of these terrorist for information

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Several detainees endured medically unnecessary[6] "rectal rehydration", "rectal fluid resuscitation", and "rectal feeding"

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A few months ago, I watched the documentary "The Kill Team" on amazon. I vaguely remember hearing about it in the national news. The documentary was pretty interesting.

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Honestly, I don't know what really happened or how it got out of hand. What I have no doubt about is that - at least at the start of it - the MPs thought they were helping "soften up" the subjects for interrogation. Now, very quickly, no reasonable NCO or officer could have believed that they were within the bounds of international conventions.

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The Stanford prison experiment (SPE) was an attempt to investigate the psychological effects of perceived power, focusing on the struggle between prisoners and prison officers. It was conducted at Stanford University between August 14–20, 1971, by a research group led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo using college students.[1] It was funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research[2] as an investigation into the causes of difficulties between guards and prisoners in the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. The experiment is a topic covered in most introductory psychology textbooks.[3]

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Guards and prisoners had been chosen randomly from the volunteering college students. Some participants developed their roles as the officers and enforced authoritarian measures and ultimately subjected some prisoners to psychological torture. Many of the prisoners passively accepted psychological abuse and, by the officers' request, actively harassed other prisoners who tried to stop it. Zimbardo, in his role as the superintendent, allowed abuse to continue.[4][5] Two of the prisoners left mid-experiment, and the whole exercise was abandoned after six days following the objections of graduate student Christina Maslach, whom Zimbardo was dating (and later married). Certain portions of the experiment were filmed, and excerpts of footage are publicly available.

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