Sex Trafficking

[kittyboy]

Good. I hope they condemned this too:

https://genderandsecurity.org/sites/...uthorities.pdf

I don't know if they would condemn the behavior as it has not come up in classroom discussion.
The officers I teach are professional soldiers with a strong sense of duty and honor. People might laugh at that (I was sceptical of them and their values before I started teaching them). I would guess they would condemn what you have posted.

[kittyboy]

Really? Are people still discussing the Stanford experiment? It has been widely debunked for unscientific practices, secret instructions to some participants ( esp. the guards ) and when scientific method is deployed no researcher has been able to duplicate the results. So, to what end?

You overstate your argument against the Stanford prison experiment.
I use it in class to discuss group identity and social identity theory. Social identity theory is one of the cornerstones of understanding human interactions.

[sglad]

The officers I teach are professional soldiers with a strong sense of duty and honor.

The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men.

Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2 (as spoken by Mark Anthony)

[kittyboy]

...as were the men who killed Caesar.

But I like your reasonable and unemotional reply.

As I recall, Caesar was assassinated by senators (many were military veteran..as was common) who were trying to save the Roman republic from dictatorship. He was not assassinated by junior military officers.

[kittyboy]

The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men.

Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2 (as spoken by Mark Anthony)

And you are quoting a fictionalized account of the assassination and the events leading up to it.
Maybe Cesar needed to be killed by honorable men who did an honorable thing.

[sglad]

As I recall, Caesar was assassinated by senators (many were military veteran..as was common) who were trying to save the Roman republic from dictatorship.

They must be thrilled to know that that line was still being sold to the hoi polloi 2,000 years later!

[kittyboy]

They must be thrilled to know that that line was still being sold 2,000 years later!

I am sure they would be. They lost the power struggle resulting from the assassination so they probably would be thrilled with the statement.

Sold or not. Rome did not end up with a series of philosopher kings ala Plato. Rome ended up with a dictatorship that lasted 450+ years. Maybe it was the better form of government for Rome.

[sglad]

I am sure they would be. They lost the power struggle resulting from the assassination so they probably would be thrilled with the statement.

Sold or not. Rome did not end up with a series of philosopher kings ala Plato. Rome ended up with a dictatorship that lasted 450+ years. Maybe it was the better form of government for Rome.

Just goes to show that the road to hell is paved with the good intentions of men of honour.

[kittyboy]

Just goes to show that the road to hell is paved with the good intentions of men of honour.

Ah.. no I guess it does not.

[paborn]

"You overstate your argument against the Stanford prison experiment.
I use it in class to discuss group identity and social identity theory. Social identity theory is one of the cornerstones of understanding human interactions."



Come now Kittyboy, it has been thoroughly debunked. However, your response as to the way you use it is spot on and I agree.