Dr. Charles Strozier, director of the Center on Terrorism and Public Safety at John Jay College in New York, said that the prison guards in Iraq might feel that the emotions of war and the threat of terrorism gave them permission to dehumanize the prisoners.
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When ordinary people start doing horrible things
BRUTALITY Stanford researchers have shown that most regular people, when put in the position of prison guard, can quickly lose sense of what it is to be humane
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