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Obedience, Evil, and Resistance (How does free will factor into these…

- - - - Knowing that the prisoners and the guards were all normal people, I thought that the guards needed training in order to become guards, however, evehthough they were not guards, they showed guard behaviors
    - - The uniforms and the why the guards interact with each other may have influenced how they treated eachother
        
        People don't treat prisoners nicely, even though they may not be one
        
        The guards had weapons and dressed stylishly
        
        Probably invoked their perception of what a guard is
        
        A guard said that he "consciously created" his guard persona
        
        using prior knowledge to help make him who he thought he was for the experiment
        
        They had khaki uniforms, whistles, nightsticks, mirrored sunglasses
      - Prisioners felt like prisoners probably due to how they were treated
        
        They were stripped and searched before given a uniform with a number
        
        Not being called their names
        
        Not wearing clothing that are 'theirs'
        
        Guards had weapons that could hurt them
        
        Did not revolt against the guard's treatment
      - They were removed of their identities
        
        They were categorized into guards and prisoners
        
        Behaved en masse, giving up their identities to become what they were assigned
  - - - I would have expected me to not go past 300 volts
        
        I did not believe that all 40 people would actually harm someone just because someone in power told them to do so
      - I did not expect that all the participants went past 300 volts
      - It was unexpected that people will still harm people even though it was not mandatory to harm someone
        
        They will still get paid just for showing up
        
        However, they might forget that
        
        Proves that authoritarian people actually are able to tell someone what to do
    - - This study showed that when an authoritarian tells one to do something, the result is expected
      - When the experimenter said "I am responsible" when the subjects asked who's fault it would be for the killing of the subject, the "teachers" felt a relief and continued to go
    - - This experiment really told me why the Nazi's can be so evil and how the doctors of Unit 751 are able to do such inhuman tasks
- - - - Milgram teachers knew that they were "forced" to kill with the legality of a superior
      - Stamford guards and prisoners changed their personalities to become different and to adjust to their new situations
    - - They can do that when the feel "above the law" as in both situations
  - - - In the milligram experiment, the power was in the scientist at the back instructing the participant to continue and go on with the experiment
      - In the stanford experiment, the power was put into the participants
- - - - They were given numbers
      - The guards showed who was boss and they can be punished by doing bad things
      - They were given new identities as prisoners and they know they cannot do much
    - - If the guards wanted to threaten the prisoner, they were permitted to do so
        
        They were the almighty