Response to Iraqi Prisoner Article
Posted in Psych 20 Student Blogs on October 13, 2009 by goldsmithgirlMy understanding of why the experiments were so controversial was because they were all pain inflicting and messed with people’s minds. I do not think this was very well needed. We do not need to harm people just to find answers to things we question ourselves about. It is common sense when a person is put in a situation to inflict pain or have pain inflicted on them, their perception of life will change. I believe the cruelness of these experiments were very unnecessary.
The Iraqi prisoner abuse is much like the Stanford Prison Experiment, but very real. They don’t have the option of quitting; they are put into the prison for crimes. They may actually be pt in jail and treated like murderers for petty crimes. Their religions nothing matters. No one is there anymore to protect them when things get out of hand.
This research and information is still important because people can look and see how totally normal people can turn around and be so inhumaine. Using this information is still usable today because people’s minds still work the same. Realizing criminals are as bad as they are in prison is because they are locked up in a tiny cell and not given any choices or a life at all.