Are All of Us Potential Abu Ghraib Guards?

MIT's Rebecca Saxe, Part 5 of Unlocking the Secrets and Powers of the Brain http://discovermagazine.com/events/unlocking-the-secrets-and-powers-of-the-br...

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• ghraib
• violence

[charleswastaken]

i 2nd that!

[justforwatchingcraps]

i love science

[NicolaRedwooddforest]

@jrkidd3 Yes, good argument. Well said. You are right but she is right, too. You are right, because we can not make justifications for violent criminals. She is right, because from a scientific perspective one can look at the executioners as being pushed into certain action. But I side with you on your argument, because the tests done by Dr. Stanley Milgram and Dr. Phillipp Zimbardo at Berkeley in the sixties revealed extremely low moral reasoning and low moral reasoning is not acceptable.

[MANOIDEAS]

Did any of you come to the same conclusion as me , that she is one smoking hot brainiac ? Methinks I should take time to be the ape that I am and ponder biology

[bluebeard2]

Her reasoning implies that the Hague trial of Nazis was a gross miscarriage of justice.

She's probably right too.

[jrkidd3]

Sorry, Hancho, my previous comment was not intended as a response or reply to you directly, I guess I clicked on the wrong link, It was intended as a general comment.

[jrkidd3]

If I understand her right she is saying that the situation at Abu Gharib was such that what the soldiers who striped men naked and threatened them by means of a woman with a vicious dog did what they did because under the prolonged circunstances they endured they no longer had the ability to decide what to do or not do based on their personal characters. I wonder how this squares with the survivors of NAZI pow camps of WWII" Read "Mans Search For Meaning" by Victor Frankl I he might disagree

[hancho17]

i think she made a great point. we can point the finger at the soldiers all we want and wash our hands clean of this incident, but the problem is that we are not actually addressing the real issue.

[foamulator]

Frankly, I wouldn't have a problem putting underwear on the head of a islamic maniac. If you ivory tower idealists ever had seen the horrific abomonations they perform on their own people and others, you would not call such a thing torture, much less condemn the use of fear.