[ here, kaveh's train of thought rolls to a gentle, wayward stop. he considers this. ]

While I see where you are coming from, I disagree - because while we haven't been pressured to sacrifice our own needs for the sake of others, we have been put into simulations that were meant to raise the stress level in order for us to have a chance to showcase if we would choose others over ourselves. The mall had that graffiti, didn't it? 'Safety in numbers'. It was hinting that we should stay together to be safer, and it did make it safer, because the apparitions were terrible to behold on your own. If you had someone else with you, they could at least talk you out of it, or made sure you didn't punch a wall in the process.

So how is this any different, the dissemination of information that we can barely trust? How is this any different than giving us another, bigger opportunity to decide if we choose cooperation on our own accord or not? Because isn't there an alternative? To see if this unites us, or to see if there are people who want to align with our captors for a chance to be freed sooner.