You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?

What was the question? I'm sorry I wasn't concentrating. I was just wondering how your cigarette looks so unbelievably juicy and tasty. Mind giving me a cig?

For real though, why does the cigarette look so...comforting?

Because I too am a tortoise. - Vala, Stargate SG1

What do you mean, I'm not helping?

Not sure why, but this scenario and question makes me anxious. Maybe that's the point?

It's a reference to the Voight-Kampff test.

Empathy test from Blade Runner.

I took the test for fun (link is above here).

You are instructed as to who you are and what you look like at the beginning of the test, and there is a title disambiguating (mostly) the scenario at the top of every image.

I believe there’s supposed to be a picture at the start of “your character” so you know which one it is when there are multiple people.