The Milgram experiment. They put the active experiment participants in a different room than the victim participants. They had the active participants deliver what they thought were a series of powerful electric shocks to the victims. Used it to study whether people would listen to someone in a lab coat long enough to kill a stranger. The experiment worked because the participants believed that there was a real person on the other side of that buzzer. But in reality, the victim participants were actors, and were never harmed.
Given the small size of our victim participant sample, I think we’re the ones being studied. I think they chose a broad enough range of people that we would all feel some attachment to someone in the arena. I think they want us to believe this is real, and I think they want to see how we respond. What I don’t believe is that they built a mass slaughter scenario as a last minute response to an outbreak of mass hysteria in order to teach 100 of us a lesson by killing 25. We thought people were dying in London. No one was seriously hurt. But we bought it. So they got to study our response. And while it’s possible that they might suddenly change the game, I don’t see what the point of that would be. And I’d rather not give them usable data by accepting their premise.