The (Im)possible Scenario
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Martim Barata
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So there's this weird idea I've played along with in my head for ages now, and I decided I'd share it with you guys. Be warned: it's the product of an over-active imagination.
Imagine yourself in a college / university auditorium, auditing a lecture from a big-shot professor. For bonus points, imagine your college or university is acknowledged and important and that they're big on social status and so on. You're happily sitting in your seat, leaned back, listening to what the big-wig lecturer has to say. And then, some green alien / spirit / apparition thingy materializes itself onto your right shoulder.
You called, dum-dum?
You're freaking out at first, and quite rightly, but try to remain calm so you won't make a fool of yourself in front of your colleagues in your big-shot college / university. The... thing speaks to you, and warns you that if you don't run up to the stage and perform some ridiculously embarassing action in front of everybody, interrupting the lecture, nefarious consequences will take place.
The action could be anything, really. Think of the last thing you'd want to do in front of an audience. The consequences could range from the end of the world, to killing all people in that auditorium, to making Alvin and the Chipmunks 3 premiere in every cinema room forever. Basically, imagine a cooling appliance mocking a piece of excrement's mother, because shit would hit the fan.
And everyone would die by wolf in a business suit.
Now, as a final touch, imagine that, for some unexplainable reason, you know the creature's words to be true. You also know that you aren't hallucinating - it chose to be revealed to you, and only you. If you don't do what it says, the bad result will come. My question to you is: would you do it anyway?
Try playing with the variables. Having the end of the world as a result triggers one reaction, but killing off a few people triggers another (possibly worse, as with the world ending, you can't feel guilty because you're too busy feeling dead). Also, remember that only you can see or hear this creature, and that after this action, you'll have no form of defense - no one's going to buy your story, and everyone's going to treat you like a raving lunatic ("But I saved the world! Why won't you believe me?"). You could get kicked out of school, arrested, etc.
Would you go for martyrdom? Or would you refuse to act, afraid of what the consequences could mean?
A little snack for thought for you, and a potato sandwich for me.
The Cap'n
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