Do You Know if You're Screwing Over Another Person?

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i feel like if you put two people in a game with each other, you might get a lot of co operation. But the minute you make it the whole class and say, t i mean, like, well, they're anonymous though, that matters. I think that when you know that you're potentially screwing over another person, do youow, ye, less likely to do it than, like, if you're screwing over yef? It's like a drop in o te hole sort of effect where you're like, look, like, i don't want to be the sucker who doesn't select six points, and somebody else get six points.

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