(ARCHIVE) I am Inevitable.

Original Artwork by me:)

(Originally published October 04, 2022)

As some of you may know if you took the time to go through my home page(yes I'm looking at you 👁 - 👁), I'm currently reading Dan Brown's Inferno. I started reading this book after school started, and I haven't finished yet because I "couldn't find the time to read"(haha yeah, very original). My mom, who is a big fan of Dan Brown's works, recommended The Da Vinci Code to me last year, and I had a fun time reading about the artworks and stuff, so I started reading Inferno after I saw it in our school library. Yes, I know that I'm not following the series correctly, but I feel like Dan Brown's books don't connect to each other in the same series that much, so it's fine.

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Anyway, as I was nearing the end of Chapter 50, I started to realize an overarching question that was going on in the book. Basically, there's this scientist? doctor? professor? dude named Zobrist. He used to be a renowned and respected person in the medical industry, because he made advances to help in aiding humanity. However, he started to say some things about overpopulation after seeing graphs and research done about global population growth. He started to say that we was going to develop a disease to purposefully decrease the human population.

So here is the question I want to talk about: "Would you kill half the population today in order to save our species from extinction?"(219)

"'Zobrist asked the following: If you could throw a switch and randomly kill half the population on Earth, would you do it?'

'Of course not.'

'Okay. But what if you were told that if you didn't throw that switch right now, the human race would be extinct in the next hundred years?' She paused. 'Would you throw it then? Even if it meant you might murder friends, family, and possibly even yourself?'

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'Would you kill half the population today in order to save our species from extinction?'"(219)

My honest thoughts

What option is 'right' for us as a species? Funny enough, I immediately thought of Thanos(did you guys recognize the quote I took from him in the title?) as I was reading through this question. In both stories, there's one character that aims to wipe off half the population for a 'better future', and interestingly, in both stories, the "good guys" always immediately oppose to that idea. I thought this was interesting because, although this would mean that 50% of the population, which could contain you and/or your loved ones, will disappear, the entirety of humanity would disappear in a century, so why not take the risk? Of course, I don't want to promote killing off humanity, but then again, if it is 'for the sake of the future of humanity', why do people react so negatively to it as soon as they hear the question?

Let's say you marry someone, have a family, and get to see your child, and their child, and their child... and so and so on. If you knew that in 100 years, your family tree would come to an end, would you press the button or not? Even if it meant risking you and your family's lives? Would you risk the current for the future?

Honestly, I think a lot of people would pick risking the future for now. Because, to put it bluntly, who cares about others in the future? The people, the animals, the objects etc. that we are interacting with are in the 'now', not the 'then'. So why should anyone care so deeply for people that they haven't built any connections with so much to risk the lives of the people and things they know and love?

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(Okay, I should probably end this rant before I go on for too long and start overwriting.)

I just wanted to organize my thoughts as I rant about this question for today. Even after trying to neatly package this question up, I can see that there are bits and pieces that I might not have talked about in this post. My personal opinion, to wrap things off, is just to stay on the 'good guy' side; I do care about the future, but why risk my own safety and the safety of the people I love to let people I haven't even seen before in my life thrive?

Enough of me, I want to hear your opinion, too! What do you guys think about this?

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