4.19.2007
choose
3 good friends were abducted,
locked up, and not given any food or water.
the psychopath tells them this,
"only two of you will get out alive,
one of you will die. which one? you'll have to choose."
1 of them falls ill eventually.
they went without food and water for days now,
they're cold, hungry, thirsty and paranoid.
they tried to come up with options but none worked.
they started fighting among themselves,
reasoning back and forth to no avail.
time was running out for them.
finally, 2 of them decided that the sick one should die,
the psychopath then hands them 2 hammers
and tells them that they have to do it themselves.
1 of them refused, the other tries to persuade,
the sick one apparently overheard everything
and acts first, killing her friend.
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if you and i were put in the same situation,
what would we have done?
how do we choose?
how
will we choose?
do you believe that we
will ultimately make a choice?
and it won't be one we will be proud of.
we will have to live with the consequence of that very choice,
the one we made back when it seemed like we had no other choice.
and then wonder, "did we really?"
***
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary.
Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
- Joseph Conrad
"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body;
after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up,
still there will be a scar left behind."
- François de la Rochefoucauld.
Posted by jing at 4/19/2007 03:58:00 PM
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