Assignment 2: The Stanford Prison Experiment

I think The Stanford Prison Experiment was initially an interesting idea and and interesting experiment. However, I do think it was taken a little too far. The fact that it shook up so many young college boys in just 6 days makes it an unethical experiment.
It's inhumane and disgusting let them go without washing and to make them go to the bathroom in buckets and leave the buckets there so that their cells start smelling terrible.
Also, I think it was extremely inappropriate to put completely random boys as guards, with no training or experience and to just let them go wild like that. I think that prison guards today usually are watched or are told what it okay to do and what is okay not to do. Prisoners are people who have done a bad crime and deserve to be punished and yelled at, but their human rights were completely taken away and that is not right and is against the law.
Also, if Dr. Zimbardo wanted to make it like a real prison...why do things that real prisons don't do? Like putting them in dresses. I understand that he wanted to make them feel "emasculated as fast as possible" but the fact that he had to end the experiment just after 6 days because everyone was breaking down shows that he tried to move it a little TOO fast. Same with putting chains on them, that is VERY cruel and also was unnecessary especially since they don't do that in real prisons.
Stripping them naked to search them when they first come in is one thing, but stripping them naked just for fun or just because you can't keep them line is terrible, and then spraying them with carbon dioxide. They were literally abusing them like animals. People look down at other people if they start kicking and punching a dog or a cat, so why would anyone be okay with a human being treated this way? It is definitely not ethical and not okay.