Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Overboard
This week we played a game (or scenario) where there are people on a boat and we must get rid of people. What has our society come to where people have no problem killing people for their own survival? Are we more selfish? Are we more conserned about the effects on the society? In the game there were a couple of people that tried to take control but in the end it was voting that made the decisions. If people were really being killed would these people still try to take control? Power is a great thing but it ussually ends up in abuse or rebellion. People in the game were unhappy when classmates tried to dictate decisions, but this would probably be different in a real life scenario, as many people could not bring the burden of the responsibility of someone's death upon themselves.
I agree with you completely. After doing the experiment i wish i was able to stand up and think of the idea of picking straws because all lives are equal. I also think greed and the american view of "now generation" played apart in to being able to just throw the people over board. I think if this was a true situation we would have thought more carefully. Also i think the people who had to go through this in real life probably feel that burden that they let someone die.
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