Some reasons why the military officers at prisons, like Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo Bay, dehumanize and torture their prisoners is due to the many kinds of coercive pressure on the soldiers from the higher authorities. These types of pressures were orders to so call soften up the prisoners so they could interrogate them. According to the author of the article called “Promoting aggression and violence at Abu Ghraib: The U.S. military’s transformation of ordinary people into tortures”, “The kind of coercive pressure on soldiers at Abu Ghraib to obey may be another reason why most chose to follow orders and carry out torture” (Lankford 393). The author, Lanford, was trying to say that the coercive pressure on a soldier is the reason why they may have chosen to carry out the torture and abuse on the prisoners. Basically, the good apples are being transformed into bad apples because of the orders that the authority figures are giving them through the tactic of coercive pressure. These soldiers were all normal young men when they first joined the military and we soon desensitized to horrors or warfare. They were trained many torture techniques used by the many different branches of the military. They were physically and mentally stable and had no type of psychological disorders. Once they join the military they soon change into aggressive dehumanizing people, but this is all due to the forceful pressures placed on them. Their humanity is still in tacked and it is suppressed by the pressures and orders placed on them. It is the enviornmeant and situation that cause that their morals and values are absent at the time.
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