6-heads lewis
Master Don Juan
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- Aug 27, 2006
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This of course leads an absurd situation where neither of you can get a peaceful night of sleep, for you both fear that the other guy is planning on killing you. Even with the best of intentions, this usually leads to both people turning on each other, and the question becomes who will turn first.He will probably eat you before you even think about eating him.
At first it may start peaceful, but you might catch a small behavioural change that makes you question their intentions. If they catch you reacting oddly to this behaviour, they will fear that you are planning to kill them, when infact you are just reacting out of fear that they will kill you. Of course you fear that they caught your odd reaction, and so they are planning on killing you even sooner then planned, so you better kill them first. Perhaps it was an innocent quirk, and now they fear that you fear they are going to kill you, but they also fear that you are going to react quickly because they fear that you caught them reacting. You, knowing this, now fear that he fears that...
Reminds me of the prisoner's dilemma, where two rational players will always turn on each other, for it is the best (and really only) logical option.
The consequence of late reaction on this island is so grave (death), that there cannot be a second 'match'. The loser of the first game is killed, which makes both parties quicker to kill the other guy first.