spookybones

Imagine you awaken, in a featureless white room. No doors, no windows, just four walls, a ceiling and a floor. You don't know how you have gotten here. You don't even know who you are - you can't remember. Your memory has been erased.

There is a voice, and it explains that you have a choice.

You can give up your life, and save the life of five random people. You don't know these people - they are strangers. They could be good, they could be evil, ordinary, famous, young, or old. They could be anybody in the entire world.

If you choose to live, these people will die. But you will never know, because while all other memories will be restored, all memory of this choice will be wiped clean. You will be returned to your life as if none of this had happened. No guilt, no shame. You will just continue where you left off.

If you choose to die, these people will live on, but they will never know that you saved them. Everyone that knows you will think you just disappeared one day. Life will go on. Maybe your actions will be rewarded by a god of some sort, but without your memory, you are agnostic, by default.

Either way, your actions will have consequences, but nobody will know, including yourself.

So what do you choose?

And maybe - just maybe - you have you already made that choice?