Seminar Response Question

1. Like in the book, when White Fang is pressured by Lip-lip to fight and cause trouble, the staff at Abu Ghraib were pressured into beating up and torturing the prisioners. If you placed one guard in the prision, they wouldn't have done what they did as a group. They would not be influenced by what the others did. Another part of the book when White Fang is put in the cage and morphed into a fighting machine. The prison guards really didn't have a choice to beat up and tortrue the prisioners, they were forced to by people who were above them (Beauty Smith and the interrigation team).
   
   
2. The disciplinary actions taken against the prisioners was not justified. When they rounded up they found all of the people that fit a certain description and brought them to Abu Ghraib for interrigation. They went way past the line for the people who they just thought or assumed had informaion. And even for the guiltly party, there is no reason to inflict so much torture just to get information. What if our troops were captured and went through the same thing. How would our nation act? Just short of nuclear war. Like in the book, Beauth Smith's was influenced by society so that intentions were to make money and be famous. The soldiers were influenced by other soldiers and the higher command into having “fun” with the prisioners and making their life awful.