Trustworthiness
How much can one trust each other?
family members and friends? the people we hold so dear... like the saying go, those closest to you hurt you the most... sadly, i experienced that a couple of times in my life...
funnily, today's lecture this topic came up again in my understanding emotions lecture though its suppose to be more of business and real life context. it hold as much truth as compared to other aspects of life. Thou the conditions favours X more than Y but the objective of the game was for all 4 groups to win against the banker.
Conditions:
4X's, everyone loses $1
1X 3Y's, X gains $3 & Y lose $1 each
2X's 2Y's, X gains $2 each & Y lose $2 each
3X's 1Y, X gains $1 each & Y lose $3
4Y's, everyone gains $1 each
pretty obvious that the system favours X more, but the objective of the game was for everyone to gain against the banker. Discussion was allowed for each individual group to collaborate with each other and to maximise profits. It was a game of trust and integrity. 1 group was obviously very selfish and put X all the way, cos there will be some people who are willing to put faith in the so-called "promises". Some, naively put Y and got manipulated by those who chose to break the promise. each group took turns to play each other out in this game of wits which ensue. But in reality, it was a game of mistrust and manipulation of minds, something which happens in our everyday life. Our so-called friends in the various groups though promised to put Y, ended up putting X in order to gain advantage over others. Familiar? I'm sure it has happened somewhere and somehow in one part of life or another.
6 rounds of the game was played and only in the last round that group stepped out of their selfishness after much coercion and that was not enough cos they were still contemplating playing all the rest of the 3 groups out to gain more for themselves and put the rest in negatives. Talk about trust eh? Sometimes it gets so frustrating when u see people so selfish... so untrusting that its so difficult to get things done... but yet at the same time, its understandable why they are doing that cos maybe at one point of time or another, we might be forced to do the same thing and making the same kind of selfish decision.
Makes people wonder eh? how trustworthy our friends can be and how many times have we actually been betrayed but yet we dunno...
family members and friends? the people we hold so dear... like the saying go, those closest to you hurt you the most... sadly, i experienced that a couple of times in my life...
funnily, today's lecture this topic came up again in my understanding emotions lecture though its suppose to be more of business and real life context. it hold as much truth as compared to other aspects of life. Thou the conditions favours X more than Y but the objective of the game was for all 4 groups to win against the banker.
Conditions:
4X's, everyone loses $1
1X 3Y's, X gains $3 & Y lose $1 each
2X's 2Y's, X gains $2 each & Y lose $2 each
3X's 1Y, X gains $1 each & Y lose $3
4Y's, everyone gains $1 each
pretty obvious that the system favours X more, but the objective of the game was for everyone to gain against the banker. Discussion was allowed for each individual group to collaborate with each other and to maximise profits. It was a game of trust and integrity. 1 group was obviously very selfish and put X all the way, cos there will be some people who are willing to put faith in the so-called "promises". Some, naively put Y and got manipulated by those who chose to break the promise. each group took turns to play each other out in this game of wits which ensue. But in reality, it was a game of mistrust and manipulation of minds, something which happens in our everyday life. Our so-called friends in the various groups though promised to put Y, ended up putting X in order to gain advantage over others. Familiar? I'm sure it has happened somewhere and somehow in one part of life or another.
6 rounds of the game was played and only in the last round that group stepped out of their selfishness after much coercion and that was not enough cos they were still contemplating playing all the rest of the 3 groups out to gain more for themselves and put the rest in negatives. Talk about trust eh? Sometimes it gets so frustrating when u see people so selfish... so untrusting that its so difficult to get things done... but yet at the same time, its understandable why they are doing that cos maybe at one point of time or another, we might be forced to do the same thing and making the same kind of selfish decision.
Makes people wonder eh? how trustworthy our friends can be and how many times have we actually been betrayed but yet we dunno...
posted by EniGmAtiC NoStaLgiA at 3/05/2007 10:05:00 PM
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