The homework assigned by Professor Game Design, so I found time to watch the movie.
After the movie, the most memorable line was probably "Are we evolved better than monkeys? Yes. Because compared to them, we can at least resist." There are good and evil sides. These manifestations of good and evil in human nature are actually very unstable. They are affected by various external factors such as system, power, living environment, as well as self-belief and self-experience, which can be said to be a very complex process. Under the multiple effects of various factors, people are often dominated by the most powerful factor, and then become its puppet, showing the almost extreme good and evil sides of human nature.
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. In fact, the rights belong to the person who created the rules, the experiment maker. In the experiment, the people who belonged to the role of prison guards are the enforcers of rights, and the prisoners belong to the public who need to abide by the rules to some extent. Few people can stay awake while possessing great power. People are often like this. When they have supreme power, they will do whatever they can for their perceived justice and their own goals. At this time, human nature becomes started to do evil. It is at this time, no matter whether this person's previous character is strong or weak, all his experiences and the beliefs he has always adhered to will be reasonably transformed into evil bargaining chips in self-cognition, making his behavior worse. It is human nature.
The film starts with small conflicts. At this stage, idealists will think that, in fact, everyone is taking a step back from each other at this time. Maybe the conflicts can be eased, and it may not be necessary to spend two weeks in peace... But this is absolutely not the case. It will happen, because human nature is human nature, desires will be dissatisfied, and conflicts will always erupt. The Stanford Prison Experiment can be said to be a microcosm of society, and even a microcosm of the history of human development. The same is true of human society. Absolute power leads to corruption, so evil begins to breed, and the growth of evil causes dissatisfaction among the vast majority of people. At this time, resistance begins. After resistance, absolute power is overthrown, and human society can further develop. The difference between humans and animals lies in the fact that they have the spirit of self-rebellion against the so-called survival of the fittest when conducting natural selection. Because, even if most people lose power and become weak, their weakness will be completely amplified, but their fighting ability will not disappear.
Finally, back to the game, this is a test of human nature. The reason why this test can go on is probably that within certain rules, contradictions have always erupted and existed, and game participants constantly use their subjective initiative to solve these contradictions. Spontaneously make some kind of action, at this time, there will be stakeholders who stand up to oppose, the contradictions and disputes will be further amplified, and the game will be able to continue. I have to mention the rules here. The game is of course different from the human nature test. The purpose of the game is to produce fun, not to expose the sinful side of human nature, so the game needs a perfect specification and a fairly high level of rules. In fact, we dare not explore human nature too much, because human nature has no bottom line. Looking at the violent killings and illegal transactions on the dark web, we cannot speculate how dark human nature can be. But the rules must have a bottom line, and reasonable rules can be formulated, so that the game can go on normally.
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