Life is like that. You will be tested on things that you never prepared for and could never foresee, things that you must handle even if you can’t. The tests will come without warning. There is no-one to complain to that it is not fair. There are no retakes. And everyone fails in the end.
This is just such a bizarre tack to take. You can go down the “toughen up” route if you want to, but it’s then not looking good for the people who have strong emotional reactions to people not playing along with their little game. I’m really not sure what point you’re trying to make here. It seems like this is a fully general argument for treating people however the hell you want. After all, it’s not worse than the vagaries of life, right? Is this really the argument you’re going with, that if something is a good simulation of life, we should just unilaterally inflict it on people?
The Petrov Day event is a trivial to nonexistent burden to place on those who received the launch code. They were told the background and the launch code and told what it would do if they used it. They were not even asked to do or not do anything in particular. Similar events have been run in the past, and those selected are likely to have been around long enough to have seen at least the last such event.
The obvious way to not participate is to ignore the whole matter.
I don’t think there is any violation of consent here.
I think it’s reasonable to take the position that there’s no violation of consent, but it’s unreasonable to then socially censure someone for participating in the wrong way.
I agree that life is like that. However, the game still violates consent, the same way as if I assaulted you on the street because I think it’s good preparation for being assaulted “for real”.
To me, this game falls in the same category as gift giving, surprise parties, pranks, rude/aggressive jokes etc. There needs to be a meta-level agreement that this kind of thing is ok, even though “being a surprise” is an essential part of the thing itself.
Life is like that. You will be tested on things that you never prepared for and could never foresee, things that you must handle even if you can’t. The tests will come without warning. There is no-one to complain to that it is not fair. There are no retakes. And everyone fails in the end.
The Petrov Day button is a doddle in comparison.
This is just such a bizarre tack to take. You can go down the “toughen up” route if you want to, but it’s then not looking good for the people who have strong emotional reactions to people not playing along with their little game. I’m really not sure what point you’re trying to make here. It seems like this is a fully general argument for treating people however the hell you want. After all, it’s not worse than the vagaries of life, right? Is this really the argument you’re going with, that if something is a good simulation of life, we should just unilaterally inflict it on people?
The Petrov Day event is a trivial to nonexistent burden to place on those who received the launch code. They were told the background and the launch code and told what it would do if they used it. They were not even asked to do or not do anything in particular. Similar events have been run in the past, and those selected are likely to have been around long enough to have seen at least the last such event.
The obvious way to not participate is to ignore the whole matter.
I don’t think there is any violation of consent here.
I think it’s reasonable to take the position that there’s no violation of consent, but it’s unreasonable to then socially censure someone for participating in the wrong way.
I agree that life is like that. However, the game still violates consent, the same way as if I assaulted you on the street because I think it’s good preparation for being assaulted “for real”.
To me, this game falls in the same category as gift giving, surprise parties, pranks, rude/aggressive jokes etc. There needs to be a meta-level agreement that this kind of thing is ok, even though “being a surprise” is an essential part of the thing itself.