Last week, we participated in the "Abandon Ship" activity. First of all, I thought it was really fun to defend our own cases while "attacking" others. Some people were really really passionate about the game while others decided to lay back and let natural selection take its course.
However, I wasn't expecting the lesson that was to come out of all of this. We analyzed the reasons as to why we kicked out certain people, learning that sometimes it didn't even depend on the descriptions of the characters, but rather on the personalities of the actors playing the parts. The quieter ones generally had an easier time staying alive because they stayed out of the spotlight. The teacher also did a good job of making us feel evil for kicking out certain people to save our own butts. This was especially true when she read the list of quotes that we said during our discussion. People can be extremely callous, even in a game.