The world had become too fucked up and it was deemed unfixable by the world's smartest thinktanks without a giant "reset" of human civilization. Unless humanity was destroyed immediately under controlled conditions, a tipping point would be reached and the planet would wipe us all out anyway. But instead of humankind becoming extinct, a utopia would be built upon the ruins, and humanity would be finally rid once and for all of religions and superstitions, stupidity and greed, multinational corporations and governments.
Humans would finally be able to reach for our true potential. Science would advance in leaps and bounds. All diseases would be eradicated. We'd start colonizing space. We would begin to attain galactic greatness as a species and each and every human would be free to truly pursue happiness.
But in order for that to happen, it was like a giant gun had been built to eradicate humanity, complete with pandemic bullets, but it was up to each and every chosen survivor to pull the trigger themselves on an individual basis. Thus the ultimate responsibility of the final event was removed from the virus designers' hands, and was instead set on the shoulders of each and every person chosen to survive.
Interesting thought don't you think? If each and every survivor refused to take the antidote, they would be the only ones to die, like a final collective veto of the plan to destroy humanity. But if even one person took it, the extinction level event would still succeed, it would just take longer and they'd be the only person left. But what are the odds of 1% of humanity all choosing to die, so that the remaining 99% may continue on? And don't forget, they'll all die anyway when the planetary tipping point is reached... if the thinktanks are correct of course.
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