You and a person you love deeply are placed in separate rooms with a button next to each of you. You know that both of you will be killed unless one of you presses your button before sixty minutes pass; furthermore, the first person to press the button will save the other person, but will immediately be killed. What do you think you would do?
from Prisoner’s Dilemma by William Poundstone
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