Eyes wide open
Eyes wide open A moral dilemma: The year is 2258, and space travel is now a made reality. After decades of extensive quantum trail-and-error scientists have finally obtained the necessary means to materialise Sinatra's "Fly Me To The Moon". As is human, space exploration was immediately commercialized, and soon after mining industries discovered impossible ores rich with life-extending properties. Human decay is now a record snail's pace, and cause-to-effect gives rise to overpopulation. Without much livable space left, demographic culling was in motion - cringey TikTokers and self-righteous activists were the first to go... obviously. But as man mass continue to compress the mud planet, a cynical proposal was birthed. Convicts will be executed, and prisons converted into makeshift housing. Dubbed "The lesser evil", the thought of exterminating millions was tattooed with controversy. Killing millions to save billions can be argued as a flawed perspective,...