This a test

[AnkCyclone was SL Cyclone]

If you were in room with one other person. That person stated that there is another person sitting in a chair tied up with electroids attached to them in another room. This switch here will shock them, and if you turn the dial the shock increases. Would you do it?

No, unless I knew the person tied up in a chair was a Hawkeye fan, then I would have to think about it.

 

[cmoneyr]

Why would you shock someone for no reason? Unless I really had a reason to hate the person or something.

 

[dbronco7sc]

If you were in room with one other person. That person stated that there is another person sitting in a chair tied up with electroids attached to them in another room. This switch here will shock them, and if you turn the dial the shock increases. Would you do it?

Given only the above... in no way would I ever do this. And I have a hard time believe 90% of American's would... unless there were incentives or reassurances as stated by others in this thread.

The only way I would EVER do it is if there were reassurances that there would be no permanent harm done and the person volunteered and I got something out of it.

But even if it were a criminal... I wouldn't be the person to take his life even for money.

 

[everyyard]

If you were in room with one other person. That person stated that there is another person sitting in a chair tied up with electroids attached to them in another room. This switch here will shock them, and if you turn the dial the shock increases. Would you do it?

if I found out the person in the other room pined for the old tazmanian cy logo??? Then yes, I would turn it to the highest number, turn it on, and walk out without ever thinking about it again.

 

[clones_jer]

In the version of the test that I took (for extra credit) while at ISU you played a game against another competitor on a computer. You then had to choose what level (1-10) of "shock" to give them if you won (before you played the game). Then when you won (which you always did) you got to see what level they gave you. Basically I went in saying "f-it, lets go for broke" ...

Later learned of the experiments above ... I think this was prolly some grads students attempt at something similar without the real shocks.

 

[motorCYcle]

This reminds me of that time when I was on a passenger ferry and I found out there was a bomb on the ferry and on another ferry, and we both had the detonator to the other ferry's bomb. If one of us didn't blow the other up by midnight, we were both going to get blown up. I don't remember what happened though.

That reminds me of the time I was saving clowns, only they weren't clowns. They were actually hostages tied up to look like bad guys in clown costumes.

Watching Batman, were we???:mask:

 

[Cyclonepride]

If you were in room with one other person. That person stated that there is another person sitting in a chair tied up with electroids attached to them in another room. This switch here will shock them, and if you turn the dial the shock increases. Would you do it?

Depends if she is hot.