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crdoconnor on June 14, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Real Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment

Where has it been used that it wouldn't apply?

It would seem to me that the only place it wouldn't apply would be where authority figures are somehow picked at random. How common is that?

azernik on June 14, 2015 [–]

Generally, it's cited you make a point about how anyone's moral behavior is caused by the roles society expects of them. E.g. "we would all be war criminals if we were drafted into a criminal army", or the like.

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