Television and torture?

Nobody is completely sure until they are actually tested. I've invested a great deal of thought and energy into developing a coherent moral paradigm. All I can say is that I would be devastated if I went along with something like this against my personal convictions. I'm pretty sure I would buck the norm. But I know far too much of the weakness and folly of our species to bet my life on it.

I think it's misleading, as the very nature of the "experiment" is going to skew the results.

Given the fact it is a TV show with an audience and the lack of secrecy inherent in a public event, it would be quite reasonable of the contestants to assume that either the shocks were completely fake or that adequate safety measures were in place.

Were it done in private, with no witnesses and a greater degree of uncertainty as to the reality of events then I would expect a very different set of results.