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4/17/2013 4:56:08 AM
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Flood, can you answer these moral questions?

So, I'm doing a personal project for school, and as a result, I'm making video games. Skipping over complex details, my game has moral dilemmas, and I need you guys to choose a side, and rate how difficult each question was to answer: 1. A bandit was attacking the village. You attack the bandit and defeat him. He begs for mercy, and to be let go. He promises to never attack the village again, but….bandits lie frequently. You’ll be gone for a whole year. Who knows what chaos he could stir up, if he is lying? You can’t threaten him to not kill people. 2. An army of town militia has been a significant asset to your cause, and has dedicated almost all their resources to it. However, they are being attacked by a large, hostile group of raiders, and have little chance of surviving. But you need to save resources to stop a threat that may destroy your own city, and anything that you do to spend resources, may cause the destruction of your own people. 3. A group of researchers need your help. They found a serum that will extend the average human lifetime by twenty years, and makes the human race immune to all diseases. However, the serum needs one ingredient. More, liquefied, Human beings. Should you help the researchers, or ignore them? You can’t use the deceased for the serum. 4. You raised an insurrection to stop an unjust government. Your eloquent speech allows you to give hope to the small group of citizens. However, after scouting out an enemy base, you find that there is no chance of your army defeating the government. There’s no chance of waiting, because the government will soon find you. The men have families, people who care about them. To save lives, you have to crush their hopes, and dreams, and step down. Hopefully, their army would disband afterwards. Would you do this? 5. A group of people are trapped under a cage of man eating monsters. The cage will soon open forward, and lead the creatures to a military base, of crucial military assets. Everyone will most likely be killed by them, due to the monsters themselves being unstoppable. However, you could open the cage under them, and let the monsters fall unto the people. But, these people are innocent, and a death like this is not right. What do you do? 6. Lets say that you spared the man back in the village. You later found out that he killed the Village Elder, resulting in you having to kill him. Now, a month later, you find another dangerous enemy that had attacked you on your way to the stronghold. He is known for killing some of the most famous people in history, but claims that he had been forced to do this. He wants you to spare him. Remember, the last person you spared had killed the Elder, thus, causing a lot of people in the village to die. This man could kill many more, and his claims are no more trustworthy. But, for every unarmed man you kill, you lose a bit of sanity, making your mission even harder to complete. However, if you let him live, he may become an important military asset. Which do you choose? 7. You are running from a pack of wild animals, who are very hungry. They kill their opponents in brutal, painful, and slow ways, that create huge messes. A village guide that had lead you to the treasure falls due to his leg injury. He cries out for help. You have enough men to fight the creatures off, however, you know that many will be lost. Adding on to this, one man getting eaten would be enough to preoccupy the beasts, allowing you, and your soldiers to escape, unharmed. The beasts love creatures that are alive, and most will continue to pursue you if you kill the guide out of mercy. In fact, by ending the man, you will slow down the process of running away. You will get caught by doing this. But, if you let him die, you get even more insane. What do you do? 8. You confront the main antagonist of the game. However, he is not what you think. He has given you a few choices. First of all, you live in a world, where people abandoned Earth itself, to live in a free network of new worlds and dimensions, that contains an appeal almost no one could resist. However, the antagonist is an extreme humanist. He believes, that the Humans could be restored back to their former glory, by conducting this revolution against the Dream Keepers. The Humans are just slaves in a machine, slowly dying out in bliss. The humans may live lives in their own dimensions, but everything had been programmed to interact with them. The advanced technology of the current century had allowed a huge sense of realism. However, a wife in here is programmed to talk in kindness, comfort with given knowledge, and pretend to have fun and emotions. When your wife gives birth to a child, it’s not yours, that child is still an illusion. Any Human that wants to go into the machine to raise a family, will end his, or her family tree. The children of today are born from the facility, and choose to send themselves into the world they want to live in. It’s all a lie, yet, people find happiness in this. Outside the machine, is a loving truth that needs to be felt, but at the same time, doesn’t need to. You have a choice of helping the antagonist lead the revolution against the facility. However, war will kill billions of people, still holding on to the machine. Only a few million will live, and be able to thrive on Earth, the true Earth. It would affect you mentally, and cause serious problems. Not to mention, that you’ll be killing a few of your friends. On the other hand, you have a choice to fight the antagonist, and end the revolution, resulting in less deaths. However, you’ll ensure Humanity’s fate of spiritual death. They’ll be nothing more than seekers of synthetic realities, slowly dying of anything real in them. They’ll have no purpose. They’ll just be, seekers of thrills, not happiness. What do you do?

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