silence?

During soc this week we did a rather interesting experiment. It consisted of people being on a boat and having to be kicked off. The word to describe this scene was chaos. I was playing a med student who was single, young, and honestly didn't have that much to offer. I was a lucky one. The others on the boat assumed they needed me incase of an medical emergency. My value of life was never questioned. But almost everyone else was being judged on what they knew and if they had family..blah blah blah. People started getting frustrated and "commited suicide" by steping outside the lines of the imaginary boat. What I took away from this was how important silence can be. I said close to nothing and survived. Sometimes less is more. This lesson is really useful in a real life situation whether your fighting with a friend, teacher, sibling, or parent. Your silence allows you to survive in stressful situations like I survived on a chaotic boat.