I was absolutely unethical. They should have searched more in design phase about human reaction before executing the plan. They had to stop it after 6 days when they saw that it is hurting people seriously and people (guards) are stepping out of the boundaries.
As a result, as Zimbardo mentions in one of his interviews, good people cannot be brutal even under bad situation but evil can go through good people and make their life miserable. The “Power of Authority” can make an Evil of good people (who have readiness to become evil).
I found these websites informative:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
http://www.prisonexp.org/
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