Do You Remember the 10 Commandments?

For religious people, there's no cheating. For atheists, they don't feel guilty that they didn't remember all the 10 commandments so they're not going to lie about them as much. The lesson here is that when you have frequent reminders, we like to think of ourselves as free thinking people that we wouldn't be affected by such a trivial thing. But when they do all these different experiments, it turns out that we would be swayed in a variety of ways. Like if we sat down and someone that seemed like us started to cheat, then we might cheat too.

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