> The jews want to abolish the death penalty everywhere so that they will never be held accountable for their crimes
This is an incredibly bad faith interpretation of why people you have never met would believe this. It could also be *because it's barbaric* and that innocent human beings often get caught up and murdered by the state.
@jeffcliff how's that worked out? I mean scientifically speaking, how has not killing all of X criminals benefited anyone who matters? The last 50 years since has shown the exact opisit of the desired social affect. removing the most violent from society has always produced positive results for the average person.
@VIcFury@jeffcliff It has nothing to do with human rights. The jews want to abolish the death penalty everywhere so that they will never be held accountable for their crimes. I've known this for forty years, except that I didn't know it was mainly being done for their benefit.
@VIcFury this is true, and there's been attempted replications since, though the data is a mess
imho it's not so much that the experiment's results were or were not valid, were or were not true - you're certainly right that this particular experiments data wasn't super useful for that due to systematic issues
but that this study represented part of a larger attempt to grapple with what exactly does authority do to people/how can we organize a society without the kind of cruelty that authority and especially prisons represent. And whether or not anything can be done about organized urban living at the scale of the USSR, say.
Especially considering some of the other things happening around this time - the beginning of nixon's war on some drugs (which increased the number of imprisoned people in the US substantially) -- it was at least an early step in attempting to come up with a better answer than "just kill all the people guilty of $X_CRIME" and whatnot.
@jeffcliff (Update: Since this article published, the journal American Psychologist has published a thorough debunking of the Stanford Prison Experiment that goes beyond what Blum found in his piece. There’s even more evidence that the “guards” knew the results that Zimbardo wanted to produce, and were trained to meet his goals. It also provides evidence that the conclusions of the experiment were predetermined.)