DENZELLE DEL PUERTO- Rock, Paper and Scissors

Rock, Papers, and Scissors (A book review by Denzelle Freya Del Puerto)

                                                   

            The Rock, Paper, Scissors scenario in nature creates a situation in which no one strategy can ever dominate the others.

             The seven deadly dilemmas:

1.     Prisoner’s Dilemma

2.     Tragedy of the Commons

3.     The Free Rider

4.     Chicken or Brinkmanship

5.     Volunteer’s Dilemma

6.     The battle of the Sexes

7.     The Stag Hunt

These dilemmas do play crucial roles in our lives as humans. These dilemmas are product of social conflicts that needs to be addressed but is very hard to alleviate. As a student, the most common dilemma that I have encountered was the free rider dilemmas and the volunteer’s dilemma. Free rider problems: happen when people take advantage of your resources (e.g paper, pen, foods) without doing or giving any contributions to it. The volunteer’s dilemma often occurs during impromptu recitations by group and no one wants to go to the center and recite, but if no one does, no point will be given to the group; each person within the group wishes that someone else will be making their way as sacrifice to save others. In a sense all of these dilemmas are the same. Cooperation within the group of individuals would be the best outcome.

            I acknowledge the review of Mr John R. Hauser, a professor of Marketing in the MIT Sloan school of Management saying, “Rock, Paper and Scissors brings the evolution of cooperation to everyone with a succinct of how these exciting ideas change the way we look at the world and the way we think”.

            Really, this book’s author is a brilliant writer, given that he have enumerated the Seven Deadly dilemmas with common sense explanations equipped with widespread examples that are easy to understand.