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Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma, as explained in the post below. What do you do?
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Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma.
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RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma.
(November 25, 2017 at 2:43 pm)Hammy Wrote: I think snitching is often morally correct. In my experience a lot of the people who complain about grassing on people, are criminals or violent people who deserve to be grassed on Dunno

Really good point. We establish a social norm against in many groups because otherwise people will be very inclined to snitch, weakening the rest of the group. I think it's an example of "mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon" (to quote Hardin from The Tragedy of the Commons)
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Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by shadow - November 24, 2017 at 4:23 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by shadow - November 24, 2017 at 5:05 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Chad32 - November 24, 2017 at 6:06 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Anomalocaris - November 25, 2017 at 9:06 am
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Chad32 - November 24, 2017 at 4:59 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Brian37 - November 24, 2017 at 5:13 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by shadow - November 24, 2017 at 6:29 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Succubus - November 24, 2017 at 7:07 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by shadow - November 24, 2017 at 7:14 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Succubus - November 24, 2017 at 7:17 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Jackalope - November 24, 2017 at 7:18 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by shadow - November 24, 2017 at 7:27 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Jackalope - November 25, 2017 at 2:46 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by vorlon13 - November 24, 2017 at 10:01 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Edwardo Piet - November 25, 2017 at 8:12 am
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by shadow - November 25, 2017 at 1:54 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Chad32 - November 25, 2017 at 11:25 am
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Edwardo Piet - November 25, 2017 at 2:43 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by shadow - November 25, 2017 at 3:00 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Edwardo Piet - November 25, 2017 at 3:03 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by shadow - November 25, 2017 at 3:32 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Edwardo Piet - November 25, 2017 at 4:27 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Edwardo Piet - November 25, 2017 at 3:08 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Nay_Sayer - November 25, 2017 at 3:44 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Edwardo Piet - November 25, 2017 at 5:01 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Jackalope - November 25, 2017 at 5:02 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Aegon - November 25, 2017 at 5:00 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by vorlon13 - November 25, 2017 at 5:13 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Edwardo Piet - November 25, 2017 at 5:05 pm

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