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I'm not surprised. I never believed in the "power corrupts" narrative. It's just a cover for an uglier reality that we are ruled by people who want to do evil a
by jongjong 3y ago
I'm not surprised. I never believed in the "power corrupts" narrative. It's just a cover for an uglier reality that we are ruled by people who want to do evil and corrupt people are selected for positions of power because they can be controlled into enabling and covering for those evil deeds.
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- mcv 3y agoDoes power corrupt or does power attract the corrupt? I do think power is unhealthy, but its corruption works more slowly and subtly than these experiments can possibly test. Not to mention that these guards didn't have real power; they weren't the ones running the experiment. They had a very limited pretend power. If you want to know whether power corrupts, it's better to look at Zimbardo himself.
- qingcharles 3y agoI've spent sufficiently long time in jails to watch new guards start the job and go from being fun, friendly guys, to being power-infesting evil jerks. There are few guards who manage to keep their nice ways intact. And on another note, I have run forums with hundreds of thousands of users. Almost every time I have promoted a user to staff they became (literally) Hitler within six months and I had to ban them. IMO, power definitely corrupts.