Salah Abu Seif

As Marianne Szegedy-Maszak states in “The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism,” everyone has the potential to be a torturer (Szegedy-Maszak 76). According to Szegedy-Maszak, the “unconscionable acts” committed at Abu Ghraib were likely caused by “the anxiety and helplessness” of their living conditions in Iraq (76). In attempt to investigate the motives behind sadistic acts in situations similar to the Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal, Philip G. Zimbardo, author of “The Stanford Prison…

of "The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism," states that everyone is subjected to be a possible torturer (Szegedy-Maszak 76). Szegedy-Maszak asserts, the "unconscionable acts" committed by the Abu Ghraib were likely caused by "the anxiety and helplessness" of their horrific living conditions (Szegedy-Maszak 76). Philip G. Zimbardo, author of "The Stanford Prison Experiment," attempts to clarify the reasoning and motivation behind the sadistic acts in situations similar to the Abu…

Even thirty years after the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE), the same theme of human corruption is still being documented. Similar to the SPE, the roles of superior and inferior are central to the various acts of torture inflicted on detainees in Abu Ghraib. For instance, the people…

they were surprised by their savagery, and started crying. The boys burned down the island, thus completely succumbing to savagery and losing their rationality, however they were still emotional when they finally came to their senses. Likewise, the Abu Ghraib prison guards were emotional when they were finally caught for their savage behavior and lack of reasoning in handling the…