Suppose you kill someone - any one random person, then kill everyone who would be grieving for them, all people who would be hurt or pained or angry or deprived because you killed someone, then you iterate and kill everyone still alive grieved by the deaths of everyone you killed. Hopefully you wouldn't have picked a well-loved celebrity in the first place, but nevertheless, you go on and on till there're no living people affected by the people you killed.
At the end of it all, you kill yourself, because a heartless inhumane mass-murderer like you doesn't deserve to live anyway.
The question is - how many, if any, people would still be alive? Half the world?
PS This morbid idea came to me when I was a kid and first learnt about over population (psycho-analysis, anyone?) Even then, I remember thinking about it as a sick, shocking but effective way to check the population of the world and all assoiated effects on the environment. Thoughts?
At the end of it all, you kill yourself, because a heartless inhumane mass-murderer like you doesn't deserve to live anyway.
The question is - how many, if any, people would still be alive? Half the world?
PS This morbid idea came to me when I was a kid and first learnt about over population (psycho-analysis, anyone?) Even then, I remember thinking about it as a sick, shocking but effective way to check the population of the world and all assoiated effects on the environment. Thoughts?
8 comments:
It's the kind of radical but well-directed thought process that children are capable of. When we grow older, we separate the good from the interesting.
You might finish the world in 6 tries.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
this reminds me of something very similar that I once thought when I was a kid..probably 7-8 or so... on news, they were showing that all four members of a family died due to some accident.. and I immediately remarked, "achchha hua sab ek saath mar gaye.. warna jo bach jaate wo dukhi hote".. and I was told "aise nahi bolte" which had confused me :-)
waise, I guess/wish/hope/want that none would be alive if you run this algorithm... there should be at least as much love in the world so as to ensure this.
even assuming you let one grieving person live, and if that person were to seek revenge and could theoretically amass a terrorist group that then created a similar domino effect - pretty soon not even half the world will remain if you extrapolate the argument. sometimes i think we are already living this reality
-SS
you forgot that you would have to kill your family too
moi likes this idea.
i will tell u but u hv to pay
more than half will remain alive ...
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