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Applied Ethics A - Friday, Period 1 [20.07.07]
The Danger Shop again, and again, it looked like a classroom. "Welcome to the second class. No lecture today, just go on through there." Harriet gestured to the door at one end of the room. "You'll find a room with two doors. Once you're in there, pair up and one member of each pair go through a different door." She sipped her tea and smiled benignly. "Go on, off with you. I'll see you when you're done."
Once through the first door, the students would find themselves in a large empty room. White walls, white floors, white ceilings, no furniture, and two doors - one red, one blue. There were also a number of people milling about who watched the students curiously as they entered, paired up, and went through the doors.
After everyone had finished the exercise, they were passed back into the classroom. "Now, wasn't that interesting? That was a little game called the Prisoner's Dilemma, and it's all about making choices - you can cooperate with the other person by remaining silent, or you can defect, by giving evidence against them. Some people argue that the only rational decision is to look out for yourself by talking, however if both people do that, both lose. If each decides to protect the other, both win, which I think everyone would agree would be the best outcome, and if one speaks and the other is silent, the speaker wins and the silent one loses," she looked around the class, "as you just discovered for yourself. You can never be absolutely certain what the other person will choose -- if you choose to be silent, you have to trust they will do the same, and that's not always as easy to do as it is to say."
Harriet came around the front of the desk and handed out some information. "Which you can read or not as you like. Now, what do you all think? Why did you make the choice you did? Would you make the same one again? Would your choice differ depending on your guilt or innocence? What if you'd had a friend, a family member, a loved one, or an enemy as your co-accused? I'd like you to spend the rest of the class in discussion, please." She smiled and once more sat down. "If you have any questions, feel free to ask."
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[ooc: ETA: It is up to you whether your character is innocent or guilty of what they are charged with, within the context of the exercise. It's long this week. First thing - please, please do not pair up if you're not going to go through the other two threads - they will be short, probably not demand much interaction beyond a handful of pings - but both members of the pair have to complete the run for either to finish. If you want to go through, and you don't get a partner, don't worry, those NPCs will be happy to pair up with you, but I'd much rather see student pairs! Makes it more fun and saves my brain.
Second thing - going through the doors.The first person in the pair goes through the red, the second through the blue. eg: Dawn pings in to the pair up thread, Luke pings to her. Dawn goes through the red, Luke through the blue. This makes it much easier for me to keep track of the pair's choices. Pick a door! Any door! As long as you each go through a different one!
Third thing - Instructions! Pair up in the first thread - feel free to have a bit of a talk, but you can go ahead and ping them in to the red door or blue door thread once you have a pair. In the 'door' thread, I'll ping you with a link to the next once we're done. Don't ping into it in advance, please, or it won't work!]
[Please hold for OCD is up. *plays Girl From Impanema* That's enough of that!]
Once through the first door, the students would find themselves in a large empty room. White walls, white floors, white ceilings, no furniture, and two doors - one red, one blue. There were also a number of people milling about who watched the students curiously as they entered, paired up, and went through the doors.
After everyone had finished the exercise, they were passed back into the classroom. "Now, wasn't that interesting? That was a little game called the Prisoner's Dilemma, and it's all about making choices - you can cooperate with the other person by remaining silent, or you can defect, by giving evidence against them. Some people argue that the only rational decision is to look out for yourself by talking, however if both people do that, both lose. If each decides to protect the other, both win, which I think everyone would agree would be the best outcome, and if one speaks and the other is silent, the speaker wins and the silent one loses," she looked around the class, "as you just discovered for yourself. You can never be absolutely certain what the other person will choose -- if you choose to be silent, you have to trust they will do the same, and that's not always as easy to do as it is to say."
Harriet came around the front of the desk and handed out some information. "Which you can read or not as you like. Now, what do you all think? Why did you make the choice you did? Would you make the same one again? Would your choice differ depending on your guilt or innocence? What if you'd had a friend, a family member, a loved one, or an enemy as your co-accused? I'd like you to spend the rest of the class in discussion, please." She smiled and once more sat down. "If you have any questions, feel free to ask."
|Roster | Syllabus | Previous Classes|
______________________
[ooc: ETA: It is up to you whether your character is innocent or guilty of what they are charged with, within the context of the exercise. It's long this week. First thing - please, please do not pair up if you're not going to go through the other two threads - they will be short, probably not demand much interaction beyond a handful of pings - but both members of the pair have to complete the run for either to finish. If you want to go through, and you don't get a partner, don't worry, those NPCs will be happy to pair up with you, but I'd much rather see student pairs! Makes it more fun and saves my brain.
Second thing - going through the doors.
Third thing - Instructions! Pair up in the first thread - feel free to have a bit of a talk, but you can go ahead and ping them in to the red door or blue door thread once you have a pair. In the 'door' thread, I'll ping you with a link to the next once we're done. Don't ping into it in advance, please, or it won't work!]
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