system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: In the Stanford prison experiment, the guards were told to act in ways that would break the prisoner's spirits. So what about the experiment was controversial? That they went overboard? That they enjoyed being in positions of power? That the experiment became (or was from the start?) immoral?
gpt
What’s questionable is the conclusions people draw. It’s often put forth as “proof that when people are given power over others they get nasty”. But as you described in your post title, the guards were **instructed specifically** to be nasty.  

It undermines the conclusion that the nastiness was a spontaneous result of the power dynamic.