Begin with a controversy about SanGuoSha (Semi-finished)

      Before I start my topic, maybe I need to make a simple introduction about what is SanGuoSha.

      SanGuoSha is a popular board game among Chinese. In this game, there are 4 roles. They need achieve these goals to win:

    Lord: Kill all the insurgents and spies with the help of ministers.

    Minister: Spare no effort to help and protect the lord，has the same task with the lord.

    Insurgent：The only mission is to kill the lord.

Spy：Kill all players except the lord firstly， then kill him one on one.

There is only one controversy mentioned here. The other three are similar to this one.

And there is the controversy: It comes to a three-person situation that only a lord, a minister and a spy survives and both minister and lord is dying which means the spy is going to win. Now the lord gets a chance to kill himself (that means he send the victory to insurgent  instead of the spy), does he supposed to do so?

The majority says they can do that. When it comes to such a situation, the spy do not left any chance for them to win.  “If you do not give me any chance, I will not give you any chance to win too.” They think it is the spy’s fault because he should not throw them to completely despair. Besides, they insist if they send the victory to the spy, people use this role will become more arrogant in next games. (sounds all excuse. [= =])

  Another side says, according to the scoring rules, they cannot get any benefit from doing that. In this situation, the scoring role is that:

If the minister kills the lord or the lord suicides, then everyone gets 0 point but the spy gets 1 point. If not, the spy will get 16 point and the lord gets 1point. Others get 0 point.

So, according to the rules, the lord should not kill himself because he will get 1 point less. But in practise, there are still many people choose to have a “perish together” end. Why?? Just because the lord envies that the spy is going to get 16 points? Does it seem like an irrational choice?
That comes to a typical psychology problem: Someone gives $1000 to you and another one (named X). It is X who distributes the money. But if you do not accept his proposal, both of you won’t get any money. There is only one opportunity. Now, X decides to give you only $1 and he get $999. Would you accept this proposal?
It seems it is better to get $1 than none, but I guess many people will refuse to accept it because it is obviously “unfair”.
Now, what is your choice?


Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it is too long that I do not want finish it…………….. I cannot really finish anything within another 500 words X﹏X   X﹏X    X﹏X