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RE: 'The Trolley Problem' - a Micro-Play - Freewrite #8
They actually simulated such an experiment with people in the 1960 and 1980's they did not really hurt the other people but the test subjects didi not know that. Sadly only a minimal percentage resisted. Unlike your hero almost every single subject opted to hurt their peers even when they played a tape of pain screams. They even opted to up the torture level to a faked death ...
Yes that rings a bell actually, wasn't it something to do with testing out the validity of Game Theory? That's quite depressing - I guess my underlying optimism in people is somewhat misplaced haha. I wasn't sure when I started writing this which way it would go in the end but it just felt like the natural conclusion. Thank you for the read!
It was sold as memory testactually (the 1960's one I don't remember what the 1980's one was for ). And it speaks for you as person that you want to believe in humanity :)