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These are scripted roles with known dialogues that the audiences can understand. No improvisation is needed. At the same time, people idolize the line between good and evil is unbreakable. They are on the good side and kept from the others on the bad (Kawasaki, 2007).
However, such a view is deceptive. It is very possible and probable that the ordinary person can be encouraged to join the other side and no longer listen to or obey law, norms, conformity and responsibility. "That line between good and evil is not an abstraction but 'cuts through the center of every human heart,' according to poet and former Stalin era prisoner, Alexander Solzhenitsyn (as quoted Kawasaki, 2007). What must be done, argues Zimbardo, so that such situations as that in an Iraqi prison do not occur, is to inculcate children with the understanding that they have the power to be heroes, do good and fight evil. This again makes a strong argument for significantly putting more resources toward the criminal justice system to analyze, create, and evaluate humane alternatives to traditional penal systems. & Zimbardo, P.G. (1998) the Past and Future of U.S. Prison Policy Twenty- Five Years After the Stanford Prison Experiment American Psychologist 53(7): 709-727.
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Risen, J. (April 29, 2004) "The Struggle for Iraq: Treatment of Prisoners." New York Times. Retrieved February 15, 2009. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807E7DC163DF93AA15757C0A962
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