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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
Why? It's obvious. Silver souls are aggressive by nature -- most I've met have a bit of a bully in them. It's the type of person that is drawn to the job that creates these problems. It's why there will be instances of bullying among police forces and warriors everywhere. It's a culture thing.
Sure, bemoan human nature all you want. It is regrettable. But, given a statistically significant number (like the number of troops in Iraq), it is inevitable. The key is that the system must squash it like a bug when it is found -- leaving no question as to what is unacceptable.
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Actually it is not only that the job as you say draws bad apples, but more that the job creates bad apples. Go read up on the infamous
Stanford Prison Experiment. Where people were randomly assigned the role of 'guard' and 'prisoner' and
knew it was all not real. Within 5 days the experiment was cut short and ended because things and spiraled down so quickly. As I recall 3 or 4 of the 'prisoners' had emotional breakdowns due to the experience. Even though all participants had been given extensive psychological tests prior to the experiment to make sure there were no bad eggs or fragile personality types.
NPR also did a show on this just
yesterday which had some good discussion in it about the subject.
Here also is a good paper about the
experiment and it's fallout (or lack there of)