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Journal by Marxist Hacker 42 on Thursday April 05, 2007 @07:48PM

In The Lucifer Effect, Prof. Zimbardo states that the time needed for good people to go evil in his experiments on prisoner/guard relations was a mere 36 hours; and in the invasion/occupation simulation was a mere 48 hours. I have to wonder if Reagan's military invasions, which were relatively successfull compared to the Bush military invasions, were successfull merely because they stayed below these limits?

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by Bill Dog ( 726542 ) writes:

...only if the Bush military invasions are deemed unsuccessful due to abuses of the invadees, no? I don't think our problem in Iraq stems from our soldiers turning evil, stemming from being there more than 48 hours. Or am I misinterpreting?
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  by Marxist Hacker 42 ( 638312 ) * writes:
  
  ...only if the Bush military invasions are deemed unsuccessful due to abuses of the invadees, no?
  
  The guards in Abu Gharib weren't invadees. Nor were the multiple cases of specific units just getting fed up with the whole thing and shooting up neighborhoods and weddings.
  
  I don't think our problem in Iraq stems from our soldiers turning evil, stemming from being there more than 48 hours. Or am I misinterpreting?
  
  You're not misinterpreting. Our ENITRE problem in Iraq doesn't stem from this- obviously it

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