Stanford Prison Experiment

After recently learning about the Stanford Prison Experiment for my sociology class, I think the experiment was unethical. When I first began reading about it, I thought it was ethical because they were all volunteers. The more I read and the more videos I watched, I became shocked at what was taking place in this "prison".

Once the prison guards became comfortable with their roles, things got out of hand. Prisoners were becoming numbers rather than people, guards were becoming overly aggressive, and even the doctors conducting the experiment were taking their roles too seriously. The experiment only lasted six days opposed to the intended two weeks. If the experiment was not unethical then they wouldn't have ended it so soon.