Maybe. From what I hear about people who on reality shows, at least in America, the first few days of having a camera on them all the time are awkward but almost everyone says after a while, they forget it's there.
Do you think that they'll forget the cameras enough to rape and murder one another after they've come from a lifetime of conditioning where those things are both illegal and immoral?
Fair enough, but those were things that those people had already done or were conditioned to doing. The camera was not a sufficient stimulus to alter their existing behaviors or prevent them from disclosing behaviors that they had participated in. In this case, the camera is a deterrent to adopting NEW behaviors. As for the rape on Big Brother (I'm not familiar with it), is there any evidence to suggest that he had been a participant in previous rape cases? Or perhaps he was the anomaly, conducting this rape without regards to being on camera. If the latter, then that would serve to promote your argument, but that is also one rape in how many reality TV shows where consensual sex occurs? I don't see this playing out like the Hunger Games at all, controlling for how much the average contestant believes in the rule of law.
Just looked it up. That guy totally raped that unconscious drunk girl. What a POS. There seems to be another case of this for Big Brother South Africa. It follows a similar narrative. Girl passes out from alcohol, guy bangs her, girl has no idea what happened. That's fucking terrible.
Probably not. Anyone who would resort to that was probably always a depraved individual. The real deterrent would be the societal conditioning against such actions, not so much the cameras.
there's a "in soviet russia" joke somewhere in all of this, but i am not witty enough to think of anything.
I just don't buy into this line of thinking, and I've seen some people do some pretty terrible things to one another in my life. I think that with the threat vectors that are the cold of the Siberian winters, animal threats (better use bear bags and get your clothes that you've eaten in up in the trees!), and requirements to acquire food and clean water, they will plenty on their minds other than raping and murdering one another, especially when they consider that there will be consequences of their filmed actions. I think that you'll see those Spetsnaz guys form a collaborative community, and others will key off of that. There's no incentive to being the last man standing like Survivor [at least from what I can tell, as the article led me to believe that everyone at the end gets $2.2M(unless they have to split that prize amongst the winners)], so it makes more sense to have more people assisting for the betterment of the organization.
