[ SECRET POST #1962 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1962 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Ferris Bueller's Day Off]


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03.
[Community]


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04.
[Big Time Rush]


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05.
[Avengers]


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06.
[The Decemberists]


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07.
[Tim Minchin]


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08.
[The Lizzie Bennet Diaries]


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09.
[Community]


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10.
[The Hunger Games]


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11.
[Nell: The Day Before]


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12.
[Devil Survivor]


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13.
[Homeland]


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14.
[Pippin]


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15.
[Portal 2 & Left 4 Dead]


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16.
[The Avengers, 30 Rock, Psych]


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17.
[FFX]


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18.
[Mad Men]


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19.
[Legend of Korra]


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20.
[Faust: Love of the Damned]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 020 secrets from Secret Submission Post #280.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[kelincihutan.livejournal.com]

I majored in psychology. I know the studies. But these things do not constitute excuses. Nor, in this case, do they apply. OP is describing a scenario where they are not only aware of the damage they would be inflicting on other people, but they would hold the authority in the situation, and they would continue to inflict harm on the tributes. And they would do it not because they felt bound to obey some other, higher authority figure, but because they liked the job itself without considering the results as part of that equation. Milgram's subjects kept going because they felt the authority figure was "more responsible" than they were. OP is saying they would keep going, knowing they were the responsible party, 'cause they were having too much fun not to. ...There's just no defending that.

[(Anonymous)]

But once the OP is injected into that situation, well, there are authority figures to contend with, and even THEY are punished if they don't follow through- remember the Nightlock berries.

I think what I meant to be taken away by linking that wiki link is that good people can knowingly do evil, without necessarily being evil themselves.

[kelincihutan.livejournal.com]

I know what you meant. I do not agree it applies in this case. Nor do I think we should equivocate about good people doing evil, even if they didn't mean to, or aren't bad people. They still did evil. Whether it's a good person or a bad person doing it, it doesn't really matter. That is not something to be justified. It's something to be guarded against.

[(Anonymous)]

I do agree with you ethically (that it's something to be guarded against), but I also have to admit, if I lived in an oppressive regime like that, where I knew my and my family's life would be vastly improved by that kind of job...

I'd probably take it. I probably wouldn't sleep well for a long time, though. (Until I figured out a way of killing the trackers in the arms of a few participants to allow them to escape.)