Would you kill one person to save five others?
Some say yes immediately…five is more than one, case closed, thanks for asking.
Others agonize, understanding that once you accept the principle of sacrificial arithmetic, you've opened a door that's very hard to close.
If one for five is acceptable, what about a thousand for a million? A billion for a trillion? At what point does the number become so large that individual worth dissolves into statistics?
In the Earliest Folds, when such questions weren't theoretical but often terrifyingly practical, THE Living Emotive posed a similar question to THE Creature.
At that particular moment, THE Creature had transformed itself into a Fold Dweller, mingling with members of an ancient primal tribe that had just discovered fire and were extremely excited about it.
THE Creature sat among them, pretending to be equally amazed by the dancing flames, when THE Living Emotive appeared as an obsidian mountain cat.
The question came casually.
