Week 2: Stanford Prison Experiment

I do not think the Stanford Prison Experiment carried out by Philip Zimbardo was unethical as it just helped him emphasize on the fact that how "good people" can be manipulated by their environment to conduct or accept  atrocious evil  behavior. I think the experiment just showed that once people are given the authority (Stanford Prison Experiment) and once they are assured that they won't be responsible for the outcome of their actions (Milgram experiment); so called "good people" do not take a lot of time to execute such beastly actions. If the experiment was to be unethical it wouldn't have been called off earlier and Zimbardo could have forced to continue with the experiment assuming he had paid those students. In fact, the results of the experiment just shocked everyone as it showed how permeable (sponge-like) and adaptable human brain is. However, I do agree that there could have been other ways of proving this point, and this experiment probably wasn't the only solution.