Chapter 159: Choice and Fate

The tram puzzle is an ethical thought experiment.

Suppose a runaway tram is moving on the tracks, and on the track in front of the train there are five people tied to the railroad by a madman, unable to move at all, watching the train run over these five innocent people and crush them into meat sauce.

You're on the train platform and there's a joystick in front of you that changes the train and switches the train to an alternate track.

If the alternate track was empty, would you pull this joystick?

The answer is yes, because you were able to save five lives.

But if there was an innocent person strapped to the alternate track, would you be able to pull the lever without hesitation?

If you pull the lever, you may not be the culprit of premeditated murder, but you will be condemned from the heart.

If you don't pull this joystick, those five innocent people will die.

This is a dilemma, but it is also a dilemma that human beings in society must face - choices and trade-offs.

Choices and trade-offs are also something that every intelligent creature must face, and as long as there is still a breath, they need to face it all the time in life.

In life, people may lose their hearts in the face of material temptations, but this is not a choice.

And the founders of the Bureau of Investigation made a choice for the continuation of human civilization.

Giving up a small part and preserving the majority, the start-up is the one who pulls the joystick on the platform.

"Sounds cruel, doesn't it? But isn't that a gamble on a possibility? Fabia muttered softly.

"No, I may understand, but if I were to face such a cruel choice, I would probably do nothing." Chobuterrand said after understanding the Bureau's position.

"Maybe it's too esoteric for you, but fatalism is not reliable. (1)" Fabia said earnestly to Jobbutron.

"You may think that the civilians who have been abandoned by me are just destined to suffer disasters in their lives, whether they are rich or poor, it is their fate, but I want to tell you that human beings can always survive in this world, not by fate, but by themselves.

Since ancient times, there have been thinkers, philosophers, and even prophets who have been trying to find the mysteries of life, including the meaning of life and happiness.

Someone will reduce everything that happens in life to some force that is incomprehensible to human beings, so that everything happens naturally and naturally.

They may think that it is a 'god', 'fate' or 'cause and effect' arrangement, but it is not.

Since ancient times, human beings have relied only on themselves and hope. ”

Fabiai said with a serious expression.

In this moment, Jobram could feel how heavy the burden of being a member of the Bureau of Investigation was.

Because Jobuterrand understood that there are no absolutes in the world, and that most things are relative.

Behind the hope is a dark and bloody despair.

And the existence of the Bureau of Investigation is to maintain the keeper of the candle called hope in the world.

"I don't quite understand, maybe this question should be taught to philosophers or theologians."

Jobuterrand shook his head helplessly.

"Maybe I'm talking too far, I'm old, and I really like to nag."

Fabiai, who looked like she was just a girl, sighed vicissitudes.

"Well, let's get back to business.

The Yellow Coat may have a party at the Mooney Black Music Festival next, and I think that's very likely.

Based on what we've said in the previous conversation, I don't know what to do about it right now. ”

Jobbuterron said with a sad face,

"Originally, I was going to ask for reinforcements and take them down in one fell swoop.

But after listening to your statement, I hesitated.

Many of these people are pillars of society, and the consequences of rashly shaking the foundations of society are not something I can bear. ”

"Hey! Check this out. Tell me what you think. ”

Fabi jumped slightly, took a file from the top, and threw it to Jobuter.

File Number: M-096735

A copy of the Times newspaper clipping

Title: "Atlantis and the Lost Lemurian Civilization Reappears?" ”

According to residents of the small town of Innsmouth, after an annular solar eclipse, the tides and the moon have changed strangely, and the coastal areas have been the hardest hit.

There seemed to be an unsettling smell in the air and dirt, the stench of decaying fish and carcasses that could not be identified.

Even the otherwise clear waters are filled with foul-smelling foam and cloudy gelatinous gelatin.

According to George (not his real name), a local fisherman, the stench is like a breath coming out of the abyss of hell, and can cause disgust and irritation, and even evoke death and decay.

Before the mutation occurred, a large sperm whale was stranded on the shore, covered with sucker scars of more than 50 centimeters, presumably the scars left by a 100-meter-long king squid.

The fishermen thought it was an ominous sign and stopped fishing, but a few atheist fishermen insisted on going to sea.

On the day of the annular solar eclipse, fishermen on a fishing boat reported discovering an island off the coast that they had never seen before.

The island seems to be covered with giant pillars that reach to the sky, and the pale green slime attached to the pillars, it looks like a lost city, Atlantis, an ancient civilization sunk into the sea.

Miasma and unidentified smoke rose from the island, and the rocks on the island looked more twisted and unpredictable.

The concept of concave and convex does not seem to exist on the stone pillars.

Feeling uneasy and threatened, the fishermen did not dare to go to the island to explore and left the sea where the island is located.

On the second day, a large number of fish and sea creatures appeared on the shore, which were already rotting and stinking.

Exposure to the sun makes the problem of corpses even more unpleasant.

Superstitious fishermen say it was a punishment from the god of the sea, while atheistic fishermen insist on their views and continue to fish, but the island disappears in the same area.

After the island disappeared, the shores returned to normal, and the carcasses of sperm whales and other sea creatures were swept back into the sea by the waves the next day, leaving only the indescribable stench in the air and soil.

This mysterious event may have to be left to explorers and archaeologists to discover the truth behind it.

The vast expanse of the sea has always been a place where mankind has many unknowns, perhaps the deep sea trenches hide the treasure of shipwrecks or the terrifying sea monsters.

Is this mysterious island the legendary Atlantis or the lost civilization of Ancient Lymoria?

Perhaps there is a world in the depths of the ocean that we humans cannot understand or even very different, and these mysteries of the sea are left for our descendants to explore.

Author: Martin. Carat"