What I'm thinking of instead of my homework

[mayamaia]

Okay, so imagine some great disaster is going to wipe out the entire human race, minus you and one other person, and you have a chance to decide who that person is, and live with them for the rest of your lives. Who would you pick?

Now, I figure from the get-go that this would be a pretty terrible thing to do to someone, so if you're at all empathetic, you probably wouldn't pick someone you love. Likewise, anyone who you know suffers from survivors guilt in general would be a bad choice.

But it would be nice to have someone you know, too. Someone with whom stories of the old days might be shared, once a lot of time has passed. So probably not a stranger. And you'd have to live with them, so nobody you hate.

That narrows your options down to people who do not overtly piss you off, but who maybe let you down - so your relationship sucks to begin with, but whatever mutual respect is there could develop again into a friendship.

So I figure mine's Conor. Not fragile, not someone I love, not someone I hate (though I'm still hurt about the way he changed his attitude toward me), and who I respect enough to profit from his conversation.

Comments

[animate-mush.livejournal.com]

Ah - but you assume that the person you pick is not a misanthrope. Also, remember that you would have a duty to the survival of the species, so it should be someone whose genome you trust, for one.

I am fortunate in this scenario. It just so happens that the person I love hates people, and would quite enjoy an empty world to repopulate in his own image. What an odd coincidence that the person I know who would most enjoy a post-apocalyptic humanless world is also exactly the person I would be willing to be with for the rest of my life.

So, that question was easy. Next? ;^P

[mayamaia.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I should have stated also, for further crystalisation, AND NO FUTURE HUMANS. The point is that if you want human contact, that person is the only option forever, and vice versa.

And I'm afraid I would not be very happy with a misanthrope, even in a world without anthropes.

[arya.livejournal.com]

I figure from the get-go that this would be a pretty terrible thing to do to someone, so if you're at all empathetic, you probably wouldn't pick someone you love.

Are you kidding? Kui and I wistfully dream about post-apocalyptic days wherein we are the only two human beings left alive, so that we can travel around, cultivating what greenery might be left.


...Ye gods, I've turned into SUCH a hippie.

[mayamaia.livejournal.com]

But you would have a world without ME!

*grins*