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What would you choose....
« on: July 22, 2008, 10:46:05 AM »
Ok, this is kinda harsh  so im  giving you a warning you dont have to read the rest and if you do that means your up to the challenge!

If you were an animorph, and the yeerks promiced to leave earth and free all controllers on 1 condition, you'd be all excited right? But the 1 condition would be to KILL YOU!

You have 2 choises

1. sacrafice

2.run like fire





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Re: What would you choose....
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2008, 10:59:44 AM »
Ooh, that's a really tough question.
See, a part of me thinks I'd immedietly choose to sacrifice myself. The religious, god-fearing, stupid part of me.
The other part of me thinks "duh, run like fire". The smart, instinctual, I'm more important than the world part of me.
So, what would most likely happen would be that, while I was debating with myself over what I should do, someone would come along and kill me anyway because I was taking too long to decide. But since I never really agreed to the terms, the Yeerks would continue their conquest of Earth.
That is, of course, a worst-case senario.
The worst-case for me senario is that I agree to sacrifice myself on two conditions: 1) I am left alive until every last Yeerk is off the planet and goes back to their homeworld, where upon the Andalites come and destroy every last piece of technology they have and 2) That I get to choose the form of death. Then, of course, the Yeerks manage to build more technology because some Yeerk managed to find an Andalite stupid enough to let them infest him and continue their conquest, skipping over Earth because Earth is now armed to the teeth, due to "Yeerk Awareness" and Homeland Security.
The worst-case for Earth is that I've started carrying a 38 caliber gun and put a nice little hole between Visser Three's (or One, depending on the book and/or whose giving the ultimatum) head. Then I run like hell and shoot as many enemies as I can becuase I don't have the time to morph, whereupon I supsequentially die because some ticked off Yeerk kills me for killing his leader.

I'm starting to think that I like the second senario best. At least I manage to do some semblance of good in that one. After all, in the first I just die, and in the third...well, the Council's still around, so it's not like I've toppled the entire government or something.

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Re: What would you choose....
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2008, 11:13:20 AM »
I'd sacrifice myself, I suspect, but I'd still want to run at the last minute. If it feels too much like suicide, I wouldn't be able to do it.

Weird, I know. I'm one of those strange people that believes that suicide invariably results in eternal damnation, except when it is to save an innocent life or lives. I guess this applies to that, though, so...yeah. Sacrifice.


OOOhhh!!! Here's a variable to throw in! Would you still make the sacrifice, if you were informed by Ellimist that sometime in the future, you (and ONLY you) would find the absolute cure for cancer or AIDS?
Provided that Earth survived the invasion, you'd be a hero and save millions of present and future lives...but if it lost the invasion, the Yeerks would just use the cure as a tool to keep their hosts functional longer.

I think I'd probably stick with the freedom road, and let the free folk of the future take care of their own.
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Re: What would you choose....
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2008, 11:31:39 AM »
I'd sacrifice myself, I suspect, but I'd still want to run at the last minute. If it feels too much like suicide, I wouldn't be able to do it.

Weird, I know. I'm one of those strange people that believes that suicide invariably results in eternal damnation, except when it is to save an innocent life or lives. I guess this applies to that, though, so...yeah. Sacrifice.


OOOhhh!!! Here's a variable to throw in! Would you still make the sacrifice, if you were informed by Ellimist that sometime in the future, you (and ONLY you) would find the absolute cure for cancer or AIDS?
Provided that Earth survived the invasion, you'd be a hero and save millions of present and future lives...but if it lost the invasion, the Yeerks would just use the cure as a tool to keep their hosts functional longer.

I think I'd probably stick with the freedom road, and let the free folk of the future take care of their own.
  Man, cure for AIDS or cancer, thats a good one.
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Re: What would you choose....
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2008, 11:34:42 AM »
Thanks! :)
Also, as newbies go, you seem like a pretty awesome person. I'm Este, and it's a pleasure to meet you.
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Re: What would you choose....
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2008, 11:35:43 AM »
Ditto, just please don't turn into YOrick :P
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Re: What would you choose....
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2008, 11:55:15 AM »
Thanks! :)
Also, as newbies go, you seem like a pretty awesome person. I'm Este, and it's a pleasure to meet you.
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Re: What would you choose....
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2008, 11:57:46 AM »
Really? You must have been one of the more quiet ones, for I do not remember you well. Sorry. :-[

Ah, well. There's no time like the present to make a new acquaintance, now, is there? :)
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Re: What would you choose....
« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2008, 12:11:46 PM »
Really? You must have been one of the more quiet ones, for I do not remember you well. Sorry. :-[

Ah, well. There's no time like the present to make a new acquaintance, now, is there? :)
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Re: What would you choose....
« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2008, 02:24:21 PM »
Hmmmn. Sorry, but we mustn't've crossed paths often.
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Re: What would you choose....
« Reply #10 on: July 22, 2008, 03:09:30 PM »
Well my first instinct would be to say no, simply because I have no guarantee that the Yeerks will keep their side of the deal, and with me dead I won't even be around to try and stop them when they inevitably betray me.

If I knew for certain that they would keep their side of the bargain, then I'd like to think I would sacrifice myself, but of course I have no way of knowing exactly how I would feel unless I really ended up in that situation.

Also, I don't think it would be possible to "cure" Yeerk blindness since they are blind naturally, but I assume that you meant they would use my DNA to find a way of giving Yeerks eyes (somehow).
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Re: What would you choose....
« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2008, 03:11:41 PM »
Well my first instinct would be to say no, simply because I have no guarantee that the Yeerks will keep their side of the deal, and with me dead I won't even be around to try and stop them when they inevitably betray me.

If I knew for certain that they would keep their side of the bargain, then I'd like to think I would sacrifice myself, but of course I have no way of knowing exactly how I would feel unless I really ended up in that situation.

Also, I don't think it would be possible to "cure" Yeerk blindness since they are blind naturally, but I assume that you meant they would use my DNA to find a way of giving Yeerks eyes (somehow).

Yea sory about that but what if they wernt lying?
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« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2008, 06:32:31 PM »

Yea sory about that but what if they wernt lying?

Well my first instinct would be to say no, simply because I have no guarantee that the Yeerks will keep their side of the deal, and with me dead I won't even be around to try and stop them when they inevitably betray me.

If I knew for certain that they would keep their side of the bargain, then I'd like to think I would sacrifice myself, but of course I have no way of knowing exactly how I would feel unless I really ended up in that situation.

Also, I don't think it would be possible to "cure" Yeerk blindness since they are blind naturally, but I assume that you meant they would use my DNA to find a way of giving Yeerks eyes (somehow).

So yeah I'm not so sure what I'd do unless it really happened. Still, dying by sacrificing yourself to save the entire planet? If I'm going to die anyway (or be infested) then that doesn't sound like such a bad choice.
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Re: What would you choose....
« Reply #13 on: July 22, 2008, 06:36:35 PM »
what's run like fire mean? what do you do? what are you running from?

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Re: What would you choose....
« Reply #14 on: July 22, 2008, 06:38:54 PM »
I'd run like fire.  I'm not a very noble person... :-X