For the greater good.

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Welcome to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners' featured post. When it comes to making sacrifices, people have different opinions. There are people who will not mind being the sacrificial lamb, and there are people who love to live life and will on no account lay down their lives for the greater good of other people. There are also people who find it easy to sacrifice others for the greater good, and some who will only do it when there is no other option. In all, can sacrificing a few for the greater good of others be justified? Is it something I can do?

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Sometimes life puts us between two hard walls, and it is left for us to choose which wall we want to breakthrough. Both walls are hard, and whichever wall we decide to breakthrough is definitely going to hurt. Before we decide which wall to breakthrough, we must have given it a lot of thought, asked ourselves questions, considered the pros and cons, and if the pros that come with any of the walls out weigh the cons, then we would want to go through that one. The pros or advantages that come with breaking through the wall do not stop it from hurting. I have given this prompt a lot of thoughts. Sometimes we have to make difficult choices; choices we might live to regret but these choices are for the greater good; sometimes we might have a consolation; and sometimes there won't be any consolations, just regrets.

Sacrificing a few for millions to survive might hurt, but I feel it is the best thing to do in certain situations. Yes, I will regret and feel hurt and might even have nightmares all my life, but my consolation will be that I helped millions survive instead of watching us all perish or die. I have seen zombie movies and series countless times. In many cases like this, sacrificing the first few to catch the virus would have stopped it from spreading, but like I said earlier, not everyone finds sacrificing a few to save millions easy, so they would always opt in to find another solution but that will only help the virus spread even more.

Like in the series "All of Us Are Dead," the scientist suggested the burning of all the infected as there was no cure, but they still wanted to find a cure, and this gave the virus enough time to spread and also more people got infected. People who would have survived it if only a few were sacrificed a lot earlier had to perish; more than half of the city perished, and in the end they still settled to burn the infected, which is like a medicine after death situation.

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In the case of a virus, the more you delay sacrificing a few for millions to survive, the more the number of the few you have to sacrifice increases, making it more difficult and the number you would have saved decreases. Sacrificing a few for millions to survive might be a difficult decision for anyone to make, but it is definitely better than watching everyone perish; watching everyone perishing is not even an option.