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Originally Posted by lostalex
but Stanford just proved how an institutional environment can encourage people to be evil, not that people are inherently evil....
It shows that the Japanese had institutionalized evil. The Japanese government, institution, promoted evil. Just like Stanford encouraged the Prison Guards to be evil.
It's true than any institution can make people do evil things if that's their intention. It was definitely the Japanese government's intention to treat prisoners in an evil way. Japan has to account for that. They purposefully did evil.
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Not sure I follow what you're saying. I don't think any nation is or could ever be dismissed as inherently evil. Humans are programmed to follow authority - it's in our evolutionary past, and it is the way that governments and monarchies are automatically set up.
The Japanese government set out to treat other people really inhumanely, but the Japanese guards/army etc, that administered the orders of their superiors, are not evil people, they are just human with human weaknesses.
It's in no way fair to say it is the make up or DNA of a country.
03-02-2014, 09:52 AM
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