Guatam, with spot-on analysis, as usual, until he loses it with a single word:
> would be too stupid for words). > Some high-value prisoners were probably being aggressively > interrogated. That ethos spread through much of the prison. > The particular guards involved with this were a bunch of > fuck-ups. They picked up that ethos, had no adult > supervision (because, at least in part and from my experience > with them, American officers tend to have a blind spot about > things like this, in part because of their excellent > historical record and in part because they're used to dealing > with highly competent regulars, not idiots like these clowns, > and those regulars would - I'm guessing - never do anything > so unimaginably stupid and vile) and normal group dynamic > behaviors - ones that we see in experimental psychology all > the time - promptly asserted themselves, until you got the > atrocity that we saw here. It wasn't an atrocity. It was Boys and Girls Behaving Badly.
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