Ha yeah exactly.

I think that the story can show us our own biases and also that certain characteristics can change our perceptions (ie. age, or sex of the characters).

In terms of gender, you saw all of the characters as male. For me, their gender tended to shift between male and female. For some reason my mind tried to make each relationship a heterosexual one. That's my "straight" bias coming through I guess.
For instance, Sam started out as male, but Chris wanting sex as payment seemed like something a man would desire, so Chris became the male and Sam became the female.

Its a bit strange - the story is vague and many details do not exist so we tend to fill in the gaps and make up our own story, viewing it through the lens of our own set of biases.

In terms of behavior, I agreed that Alex's behavior was the worst. Beating someone is hard to excuse. Conflict should be dealt with, with words in my opinion. I thought that Pat was exploiting the situation and taking advantage of Sam. I wasn't a fan of that. Though, they made an offer and followed through with it. That was also a positive for me. I sympathized with Sam a little or understood them in my own way. For me I saw their behavior as his/her ego being hurt and so they sought to repair their damaged self by through enjoyment of anothers pain. I think that it is fairly common for people to get enjoyment out of others suffering when they themselves are emotionally hurt.

Its a cluster of a situation that can be interpreted a hundred ways. I just thought it was interesting how it can point out our own biases and give us something to self reflect on.

Thanks for playing the game :)