[locked from Lyra]

[subtlerthanthou.livejournal.com]

I haven't been coming here lately. ...Sorry. My hand...it's been hurting me again recently. For those who don't know (which I'm guessing is a lot), I...had two fingers cut off. A few years ago. I had been fighting with an older and stronger man over a special knife...I lost the fingers and gained the knife. The man lost his life. That's all that needs to be said, really. The wound still hurts once in a while.

Now...

I've got a question...one of the latest posts inspired me to type.

If...someone or something you'd give your life to protect, what would you do if you had to give that someone or something up for the greater good of, well, the multiverse? Just a rhetorical question, of course. Nothing on that scale happens. Often.

((Trying to get him more active and srs Will is srs. Because Will is always serious. ))

Comments

[the-air-corsair.livejournal.com]

Obviously, I'd find a way to save them both.

[subtlerthanthou.livejournal.com]

How would you go about it?

[the-air-corsair.livejournal.com]

It would depend upon the situation. Your question was a bit vague on details.

[subtlerthanthou.livejournal.com]

Oh. Er. It was, wasn't it?

... How about you have to leave this person/thing in a different world without anyway to get to it/them or the multiverse collapses?

[the-air-corsair.livejournal.com]

There's ALWAYS another way. Nothing is impossible, under the right circumstances.

[subtlerthanthou.livejournal.com]

I see.

[the-air-corsair.livejournal.com]

It's just a matter of looking at the problem in as many ways as possible. With a multiverse at one's disposal, there certainly wouldn't be a shortage of outside ideas.

[subtlerthanthou.livejournal.com]

That is an optimistic view.

[the-air-corsair.livejournal.com]

Life is too short to be a pessimist. The duty of any true man is to make Fate bend to his will. If there isn't a path, you make one, and you don't let common knowledge or detractors sway you from your path.

[originaldragoon.livejournal.com]

I've lived by the philosophy that one life or one's happiness is nothing compared to those of millions.

[subtlerthanthou.livejournal.com]

That is a common philosphy.

[death-chopper.livejournal.com]

I would give him it up. One does what one must.

[subtlerthanthou.livejournal.com]

One must do that, yes.

[heavenly-home.livejournal.com]

Is your hand alright? Perhaps some kind of ointment to dull the pain?

As for you question...I have not really thought about anything as such. In my life, such questions are never asked.

[nonesodangerous.livejournal.com]

And what if the someone or something you would give your life to protect was directly related to the situation? That is, the person or object in question was responsible for the safety of the world.

For example, using something completely improbable on my world, but knowing the nature of the community, quite possible in another, suppose the person making you choose had the means to severely cripple the multiverse in one hand, and...I don't know, a goddess responsible for the order and wellbeing of the universe in another, and you love that goddess. You can only stop the immediate danger to the multiverse, or save her life.

Which would you choose?

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[hok-ton.livejournal.com]

"The needs of the many out way the needs of the few".

The human consciousness tells us this; it is programed into our very being. That does not make it any easier to make the decision to sacrifice the objects and people most important to you for a universe that likely does not even register your existence.

No one would think lesser of you, were you to chose momentary pleasure over the right course of action.

[tyki-tock.livejournal.com]

I assume this is related to that earlier anonymous post? Interesting philosophical questions, indeed. I think most people can only say what they would like to think they would do, and would likely act more selfishly than they expect if the situation actually presented itself.

[thricedeadwind.livejournal.com]

I would at least make certain that I would succeed in my task.

There are plenty of meaningless platitudes people may give you; something about the nature of love or friendship ... or perhaps some empty claim that one cannot sacrifice one ideal for another.

The cold and bitter truth is, however, that if you have the power to evoke change unto the world, you cannot be selfish. You must sacrifice what is close to you, even if it means you survive the experience.

Even if it means you are hated by those you have saved. That, at times, is the price. All you can hope is he understands, even in his grave.


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[catlover993.livejournal.com]

What are you eight?

Go play outside kid.

[hates-cliches.livejournal.com]

I couldn't get them up. I'd either try and find a way to save everyone or sacrifce myself.

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