“I’ll Never Speak To You Again”

Screenshot from HBO’s WestWorld. What if your actions had no observable consequences?

It’s interesting to think about interactions where you’re never likely to see the other person again. It’s in these interactions that someone’s nature can be revealed. Do we become snivelling and conniving, reducing the other parties to non human players in some game? Or does our inclination to be good come out?

Some argue that what we do isn’t a choice at all but a result of our circumstances. How we were…