“I’ll take those nuclear weapons off of your hands,”
you say.
“Great doing business
with you,” says Chet.
You hang up the phone and
begin plotting how best to utilize your new weapons. You’ve bought
a lot. Enough to remove most of the world populace.
But then, another thought
crosses your mind. What about the remainder of the world? Just because
you kill most of it, the remaining people are too likely to band together
and kill you. That doesn’t seem like much of a victory. Perhaps
you shouldn’t do this after all.
• Do
you do it anyway?
• Do you do it anyway, and then pretend
to be sorry about it?
• Do you do it anyway, but are actually
sorry about it?
• Do you not do it?