Hat tip to David Brin (man, I love your work) for his posting on Rick "Nehemiah" Santorum this morning which prompted me to put up this little thought experiment with poll.
Read David's diary here:
Rick is on a Roll! The Stunning Sincerity of Rick "Nehemiah" Santorum
Anyway, here goes.
You awake to find yourself sitting in a chain in a room. The room has a single exit, a door which is sealed airtight and beyond your ability to open. There are no other exits, air vents, etc. The room is completely airtight and you realize that you will eventually suffocate if the door is not opened.
Before you is a table upon which sit three glasses and a note. The note reads "Drink one of these glasses and the door will open". The three glasses contain:
A) Low Sodium V8 Juice
B) New Cherry Coke
C) Sulfuric Acid
What do you do?
I have to go off to a job interview in a bit, but I'll update this diary with poll results and some further thoughts when I get back.
So, back from my interview and here is the update I promised.
What do you do?
Drink the Low Sodium V8
60% 17 votes
Drink the New Cherry Coke
25% 7 votes
Drink the Sulfuric Acid
3% 1 votes
Suffocate
10% 3 votes
Looks like we have some nihilists out there ;-)
So, the choices presented were stand ins for choices in the upcoming election.
Low Sodium V8 represents Obama
New Cherry Coke represents Romney
Sulfuric Acid represents Santorum
Suffocating pretty much represents not voting at all
However, I confess, I didn't reveal one key piece of information. That New Cherry Coke? It was laced with arsenic. If you drank it, you're just as dead as if you drank the Sulfuric Acid.
That's the danger and dilemma we are faced with here. Both Romney and Santorum are toxic, but only the second is clearly and obviously so without access to the hidden data.
When it comes down to it being a choice between just two, I'd rather see that choice be between V8 Juice and Sulfuric Acid than New Cherry Coke (laced with arsenic).
Hehe, now we'll see Redstate comments "OMG the commies want us all to drink V8 Juice and are going to take away our soda!".
RIP Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik, you will be missed.