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[[File:Gyges ring.jpg|alt=Transparency|thumb|'''''Figure 1'''. The ring of Gyges -'' if you were to become invisible, what would you do?]] | [[File:Gyges ring.jpg|alt=Transparency|thumb|'''''Figure 1'''. The ring of Gyges -'' if you were to become invisible, what would you do?]] | ||
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To show you how this works, let's do a quick and easy thought experiment... Imagine you were given a ring which makes you invisible much like Frodo in the Lord of the Rings. ''What would you do?'' Would you anonymously rob a bank or help a homeless person? It's argued by Plato (where Tolkien got the original idea of LOTR from!) in one of his stories called ''[[The Ring of Gyges]]'' that the majority of people would rob the bank<ref>'''Plato's Republic''' - Laird, A. (2001). "Ringing the Changes on Gyges: Philosophy and the Formation of Fiction in Plato's Republic". ''Journal of Hellenic Studies''. '''121''': 12–29. doi:10.2307/631825. JSTOR 631825.</ref>, the rationale he gives for this is humans are primarily selfish in nature, but you probably already know that!<ref>'''The Selfish Gene'''. Oxford ; Dawkins, Richard, 1941-. New York :Oxford University Press, 1989.</ref> ''However, what if we turn this thought experiment on its head?'' | To show you how this works, let's do a quick and easy thought experiment... Imagine you were given a ring which makes you invisible much like Frodo in the Lord of the Rings. ''What would you do?'' Would you anonymously rob a bank or help a homeless person? It's argued by Plato (where Tolkien got the original idea of LOTR from!) in one of his stories called ''[[The Ring of Gyges]]'' that the majority of people would rob the bank<ref>'''Plato's Republic''' - Laird, A. (2001). "Ringing the Changes on Gyges: Philosophy and the Formation of Fiction in Plato's Republic". ''Journal of Hellenic Studies''. '''121''': 12–29. doi:10.2307/631825. JSTOR 631825.</ref>, the rationale he gives for this is humans are primarily selfish in nature, but you probably already know that!<ref>'''The Selfish Gene'''. Oxford ; Dawkins, Richard, 1941-. New York :Oxford University Press, 1989.</ref> ''However, what if we turn this thought experiment on its head?'' | ||