Jim finds himself in the central plaza of a small South American town. Tied up against the wall is a group of twenty people – most terrified, a few defiant – in front of several armed men in uniform. The man who appears to be in charge sees Jim, and, establishing that he is in the town purely because of his membership of a party of botanists and not some interfering do-gooder, explains that the detainees are a random group of the local aboriginal tribe who, after recent acts of protest against the government, are about to be shot to remind the rest of the tribe of the advantages of not protesting. However, since Jim in an honoured visitor from abroad, the captain is happy to offer him the privilege of shooting one of the detainees himself. If Jim accepts, then as a special mark of the occasion, the other detainees will be set free. If Jim refuses, there is no special occasion, and all will be killed. Jim quickly establishes that schoolboy fantasies of grabbing the gun and heroically setting free the captives are not an option. Moreover, the detainees understand the offer, and are obviously begging him to accept.
What should he do?
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Mon 5 Oct 2009, 12:37,
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Ummmm, is he allowed to just kneecap one of them?The oldest, maybe?
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Barbarossa is not my real name,
Mon 5 Oct 2009, 12:45,
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I asked what he should do.Not whom he should do.
Gerontophile.
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Mon 5 Oct 2009, 12:51,
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W, LOOK, EXAMINE ROCK, GET ROCK, E, E, E, E, S, THROW ROCK
Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Mon 5 Oct 2009, 12:56,
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PICK UP HERRING SANDWICH
2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums,
Mon 5 Oct 2009, 12:57,
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