Friday's Response

Friday’s class reinforced the idea that people generally make decisions and do things based off of their own self-interest. However, simply because someone is valuing their own needs before those of others does not mean that other parties are left out in the cold, as it is often in the best interest of the party with the resources to have a mutually beneficial relationship with those who need them. The group with the chairs, to the best of their abilities, spread around their resources while maintaining a decent level of comfort for themselves. This was undoubtedly in their best interest, as keeping all the resources for themselves, which they could very well have done, would have made them not very well liked. And if they had given a nice chair to each group, it would have created infighting, and that is not a good thing to promote discourse between parties.