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[quote=Anonymous]I haven't read the entire thread, and I don't have enough knowledge to talk with any authority about the specifics of the journalistic ethics of this story. But I do think that the people who are dismissing it out of hand because, basically, they can't believe that a bunch of wealthy white college students would do this are being very naïve. History and research have shown over and over that ordinary people are capable of doing terrible things, given the right circumstances. Ordinary Germans perpetrated the Holocaust. And, closer at hand to the issue of what college students are capable of doing -- there's the famous Stanford Prison Experiment: http://www.prisonexp.org/. It doesn't take much to get a bunch of people who are part of a cohesive group, in a position of power, to do some awful things. [/quote]
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