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At first i didnt understand what the purpose of the prisoners dillemma was. then in class on tuesday lydia explained to me that it was like a scene in the movie The Dark Knight, the part where there are prisoners on one ferry, and civilians on the other, each have the remote to blow up the others ship so one of them can survive or at midnight they both get blown up, neither has communication with the other so they must make a decision to either sacrifice themselves or the other ferry.

putting it in this perspective made absolute sense to me, especially as the class continued into a conversation about alterior motives. Do we always make decisions that have area for some personal gain?

Prisoner's Dilemma was very cut and dry, I wanted to win so at first I cooperated and I kept on getting the same score as serindip but that didnt satisfy me so I began competing although it only allowed a one coin difference in our scores. at the end of The Dark Knight niether ferry blew up and Batman saves the  day. in real life batman wont be there, would we really sacrfice both of the ferrys because it is the right thing to do, or is it? would it be lose/lose bc they both die or win/win because they had good intentions?