Nerf Guns role in World Politics

Nerf was the theme of this week’s classes. When I heard that we had to make flags, I thought we were back in middle school. Little did I now at that point we would actually regress back to middle school antics. I am not saying that the nerf war was stupid, it was just a bit unnecessary. Though unnecessary, it did add to the lesson. The nerf conflict showed the conflict between states. Although there was already conflict with the number of chairs, the nerf guns just added. We were able to see how resources affect the way a nation reacts. We see through a simulation like this that a nation with resources will try to share its wealth, but it shared the wealth to help itself. Self-interest was a major player in all this week’s discussions.

Self Interest drives the actions of a nation. In our class, self interest was in play because no one really wanted to hurt anyone else’s feelings. Since we all live with each other, getting someone upset could disrupt the feel on the floor and make for awkward confrontations in the hall. When it came to selecting the process of who enters the room first, we all wanted to get inside and sit so we just agreed to go through with the random choosing of numbers. Self interest made our decision on how to get and how to distribute the wealth. Overall, its all self interest.