> Zimbardo played a key role in encouraging his "guards" to behave in tyrannical fashion.
How do we know that the Abu Ghraib guards weren't told to be tyrannical by the CIA or other management figures? Noone was really blaming the guards themselves for causing it to happen.
We know they were. MPE doesn't confirm the belief that cruelty spontaneously forms in previously uncruel people when they are put in charge of others - but does it claim to? If that were true, every parent would be an abuser.
What it does support is that if you put people in charge of other people, and only punish the people in charge for lapses in order, and not for cruelty, then a large percentage of them will become cruel to prevent lapses in order.
> Zimbardo played a key role in encouraging his "guards" to behave in tyrannical fashion.
How do we know that the Abu Ghraib guards weren't told to be tyrannical by the CIA or other management figures? Noone was really blaming the guards themselves for causing it to happen.