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My friend sent this to me, thought it was interesting, he wondered what I would do, I wonder what you will do..:

Location: Scott's twisted dreams

Time: Sometime in the near future...


So I was in a parking garage walking back to my car, and when I found it, there were people in hazmat suits cleaning stuff near it and I was warned to stay away. They were all freaking out and told me to get the hell away, but it was too late because I'd apparently already come close enough to get infected by a designer virus. It was designed using my DNA and thus targeted only to me. Not sure why they had hazmat suits on since it could only effect me, but whatever, it's a dream...


I was then given the choice by a messenger of the plague's designer of taking the "antidote", or dying within the day. But it wasn't just an antidote. It was like a catalyst that reversed the virus's functioning. By taking it, I would become immune, but then everyone who came near me would be infected who would infect everyone they came near, and on and on. I was informed I had been chosen to be part of the 1% left of humankind to rebuild human civilization, and this was exactly the choice given to all the selected survivor candidates.

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.

Also interesting to think of how that would change the dynamic between a reality where the survivors go on in a world where everyone was killed by one person or one group, and a reality where everyone was killed by each and every single survivor.


Shared responsibility.


Payment in full.


No one is innocent.


Everyone is guilty.

In my dream, I was not actually able to make the decision. Instead, I woke up. I just didn't know what to do. I wanted to survive of course, but I didn't want to be the one to kill everyone around me to do it, but I also didn't want to let down those who chose me to help rebuild human civilization in the aftermath. That's quite a distinctive honor, right? But to be the person responsible for it all and not just a survivor… to choose to save your own life at the cost of killing everyone around you... that's a monumental decision to suddenly be thrown in your lap, with a built-in timer, don't you think?


Tick tock, tick tock?


What would you do?

If chosen to be a survivor of the virtual extinction of humankind, and to continue on in a utopia you would get to help build, would you agree?

And would that decision change if you were forced to share in the responsibility of the slaughter of 99% of the human race, all friends and family included?

I need a cup of tea before I make such a humungous decision.

you and this tea...

me too...actually coffee, but I promise to read in the morning with my coffee...just kinda spent right now...too lazy to read all that...it's really late overhere in Sweden...

take your time, get some rest, its an interesting read.

Not sure what I would do. That is a hard one to decide. Don't want to be the cause of my families lives, but if they are going to die anyway. But for how much longer will they be alive? Too many unanswered questions to answer.

i know, thats why this is interesting.....Although, I would probably live....

Yes would be interesting to see the new world, but would I want to live there without my family. Well my daughter mostly.