Alex blogged a Mental Floss post a few weeks ago that mentioned Philip Zimbardo's infamous early-seventies Stanford Prison Experiment, where students acting as prisoners and guards took their roles to psychologically damaging heights, punishing and rebelling against one another. This old documentary features actual footage from the "jail" in the basement of the psychology building. Is it fascinating, bizarre, funny, horrifying, or all of the above?
Punish the play button or go to YouTube
This statement describes a lot of physics and mathematics.
It is interesting to see how people love to play a game; no matter how debased and degraded that game is - in this case prisoner and prison guard.
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, if you want to test a man's character give him power." By Abraham Lincoln.
I'm sure the Guards ended up being outstanding citizens. Yeah right.