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Welcome to the Experiment
Well, someone always has to go first
It seems our Members are shy, so I will be the guinea pig (which was neither a pig nor from Guinea - but a rodent from the Andes, domesticated by the Incas)
And talking of 'Experiment', have you seen "Das Experiment" the movie? Based on the real Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971, funded by the US Navy, it shows that both individuals and systems matter, and that ordinary people can very easily turn into monsters, if basic elements of what goes by the name of humanity are removed (or are lacking), and vice versa.
Related:
http://www.prisonexp.org/
http://www.dasexperiment.de/intro/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Experiment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment