midnight rain

Who did I quote?

Cuthbert

I have no idea how I'm being a sheep tbh.

midnight rain

You posted exactly what fetcher said directly before you, seems too coincidental that you both formulated that thought back to back

not even true either you can choose whatever answer you like but I'm gonna have an opinion on it

Cuthbert

I didn't even read that post. The one I did see said something about self-righteousness. Then I saw Trollheart's.

Paedantic Basterd

I'm actually willing to bet that, were we all in the situation, more people would actually take advantage of it than believe they would now.

Social desirability bias probably keeps more of us in line in a hypothetical situation than would be restrained if given the real opportunity. These kinds of "scott free" situations have a way of bringing out the absolute worst in humanity.

midnight rain

Truth. You can see how many people will exercise impulse control and atheists would probably be more likely to pull the trigger

Paedantic Basterd

I mentioned the Stanford Prison Experiment once before, and I'll bring it up again because I think it's entirely relevant: When people are put in a position of power over other people, even when there's nothing to gain, they will take every advantage of those beneath them.

Makes you think maybe Freud was on to something, other than the cocaine, haha.

midnight rain

I think it also depends on a person's innate psychology and how domineering they are, but societal conditionings we've been taught to live by go out the window to seemingly normal people when theyre face with situations where they think they aren't being watched and judged

FETCHER.

So you think we're all sociopaths?

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Paedantic Basterd

I'd never generalize, but I do think we'd all be shocked by the number of people who would follow through if the situation were literal. It's been evidenced repeatedly in psychological/sociological discourse that people do not handle power well.