And still, I can't help but wonder if we need it. It seems unusually cruel to put the contestant in this dark of a situation, no matter what its outcome. (Or, umm, how many waivers he had to sign in order for the special to be greenlit.) If the man does go through with the murder, we don't really learn anything new about humanity: there are countless examples in history of people blindly following orders , from countless genocides to the Slenderman case . The dark side of humanity exists — we don't need to turn an innocent person into a killer to understand that.