# Save 20,000 people from extermination, or prevent a mass "cure" (by mindrape) of gays? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 28, 2015, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/save-20-000-people-from-extermination-or-prevent-a-mass-cure-by-mindrape-of-gays/711149 "2015-01-28T21:10:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/save-20-000-people-from-extermination-or-prevent-a-mass-cure-by-mindrape-of-gays/711149/41 "2015-01-29T20:19:40Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > Is it? As Bob, I would be concerned about the long term consequences of explaining how and why a nuke just went off in Singupura. Is the Indian government going to be ok with my explanation or will they immediately set a fleet of bombs heading for Pakistan - who will of course, retaliate in kind. And would wiser heads in other countries have the discipline to stay out of it, or would they just assume that they needed to shoot first and ask questions later? > > As horrific as it sounds, I would probably go for the bomb after ripping out LLLL’s spinal column and beating her to death with it (shouldn’t take long. I am, after all, super.) > > It’s a bad choice but there aren’t any actual good choices, here. Stop being smarter than me, damn it! Then again, you are indirectly named after Athena. Never mind. Good points throughout which I totally should have thought of myself (and will be editing the Doper Logs so that the records indicate that I did). ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/save-20-000-people-from-extermination-or-prevent-a-mass-cure-by-mindrape-of-gays/711149/42 "2015-01-31T16:54:54Z")
Would have been a more interesting hypothetical maybe if it had been “Save 20,000 lives at a cost of taking people’s freedom to be gay away from them” instead of “Save 20,000 lives from a bomb, or an order of magnitude more lives from suicide”. That pretty much guarantees that anyone who’d opt for the wrong choice must be a \*hell \*of a homophobic bigot. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/save-20-000-people-from-extermination-or-prevent-a-mass-cure-by-mindrape-of-gays/711149/43 "2015-01-31T17:11:05Z")
> [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](#): > > Would have been a more interesting hypothetical maybe if it had been “Save 20,000 lives at a cost of taking people’s freedom to be gay away from them” instead of “Save 20,000 lives from a bomb, or an order of magnitude more lives from suicide”. That pretty much guarantees that anyone who’d opt for the wrong choice must be a \*hell \*of a homophobic bigot. Who says there’s an outright wrong or right choice? I think there’s merits to both sides, and I didn’t write the hypothetical in an attempt to root out homophobes anyway. ETA: Also, Merneith gave an excellent, non-homophobic argument for saving the town. And in a good hypo, BOTH choices suck. You just have to decide which is suckier. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/save-20-000-people-from-extermination-or-prevent-a-mass-cure-by-mindrape-of-gays/711149.md?page=2)