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->''"You either fire the fatty, or fire the cripple, or I fire all three of you."''
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->''[[TermsOfEndangerment My son]]... you have two options... Option one is [[KickedOutOfHeaven you jump down that hole]] and survive the best you can in {{hell}}, or by the slimmest of chances allow yourself to be [[KarmicReformHell rehabilitated]] in my [[AntiAntiChrist niece]]'s hotel. Option two is that by the time [[DeadlyGaze my eyes rise and lock with yours]], I [[DeaderThanDead erase your soul]].''
-->-- '''Jesus Christ to Philip Wittebane''', ''Fanfic/ArchivistAngels''
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->''"I'll give you two choices. Either I shoot you here and now, or you free yourself and get out on your own. And if you do, there will be ''nowhere'' to hide."''
-->-- '''Galvatron''' to Thrust, [[Main/KarmicDeath who's being crushed to death in Unicron's gears]], ''Anime/TransformersArmada'', "Union"
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->'''Andy as Dr. Porkchop:''' You must choose, Sheriff Woody! How shall [Bo Peep] die? Shark? Or death by monkeys? ''Choose''.\\
'''Andy as Woody:''' I choose ''[[Main/TakeAThirdOption Buzz Lightyear!]]''\\
'''Andy as Dr. Porkchop:''' [[Main/BigWhat What?!]] That's not a choice!
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->'''Quora question:''' Atheists, imagine you're going skydiving with a Christian baby. Suddenly the baby tells you he won't open his parachute until you renounce atheism and accept Jesus as your lord and savior. What would you do?\\
'''Moore:''' I mean, this is deranged enough that I'm actually confident just [[PoesLaw calling it satire]] without needing to investigate. Start with the sheer insanity of the premise: how is the baby fucking skydiving? Why has the baby been given responsibility for his own chute? How is the baby talking? The whole point of it being a baby is the idea that saving a baby's life is a paramount moral duty, but that's grounded mostly in a baby's helplessness, his dependency on others for survival. [[AnalogyBackfire This fucken baby is voluntarily going skydiving and can operate a parachute.]] I'm actually only half joking here - [[DeconstructedTrope moral hypotheticals are always at least slightly absurd, because they're intended to create an artificial moral binary]] - the trolley problem, for example, depends on perfect knowledge that you can only save the five people by killing the one. But this scenario isn't just very specific and arbitrary, it has an almost hallucinatory strangeness to it - it's more like an elaborately constructed fantasy than a moral hypothetical.
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->'''Quora question:''' Atheists, imagine you're going skydiving with a Christian baby. Suddenly the baby tells you he won't open his parachute until you renounce atheism and accept Jesus as your lord and savior. What would you do?\\
'''Moore:''' I mean, this is deranged enough that I'm actually confident just [[PoesLaw calling it satire]] without needing to investigate. Start with the sheer insanity of the premise: how is the baby fucking skydiving? Why has the baby been given responsibility for his own chute? How is the baby talking? The whole point of it being a baby is the idea that saving a baby's life is a paramount moral duty, but that's grounded mostly in a baby's helplessness, his dependency on others for survival. [[AnalogyBackfire This fucken baby is voluntarily going skydiving and can operate a parachute.]] I'm actually only half joking here - [[DeconstructedTrope moral hypotheticals are always at least slightly absurd, because they're intended to create an artificial moral binary]] - the trolley problem, for example, depends on perfect knowledge that you can only save the five people by killing the one. But this scenario isn't just very specific and arbitrary, it has an almost hallucinatory strangeness to it - it's more like an elaborately constructed fantasy than a moral hypothetical.
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->'''Joker:''' So. What our friend Bane holds in his hand is - a heart monitor. Once he clamps it on, every beat of his vacant little heart will charge the battery on ''this'' electric chair. And when it's fully charged... ''([[HighVoltageDeath theatrically screams and convulses]])'' So either you kill Bane-\\
'''ComicBook/{{Batman}}:''' [[ThouShaltNotKill No. I won't kill him]].\\
'''Bane:''' But you will. You will fight me with all your resolve. Or you will die. ''Someone'' is going to die: you, me, or the clown. The question of which one of us it is - is in your hands.\\
[...]\\
'''Joker:''' Oh. And - just in case either of you were thinking of getting smart - try to remove the heart monitor and... [[DeadMansSwitch KABOOM! More minced meat on the walls than a house made of hamburger]]. How's that for a helpful hint, Bats?
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->'''Crayak:''' Yes. And you can stay here and save them, Ellimist. Or you can follow me to the next game. Save a few of these creatures, or perhaps save entire worlds. Your choice. [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame It's all a part of the game]].
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->'''Crayak:''' Yes. And you can stay here and save them, Ellimist. Or you can follow me to the next game. Save a few of these creatures, or perhaps save entire worlds. Your choice. [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame It's all a part of the game]].
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'''Crayak:''' Yes. And you can stay here and save them, Ellimist. Or you can follow me to the next game. Save a few of these creatures, or perhaps save entire worlds. Your choice. [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame It's all a part of the game]].
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->''"I am in too great doubt to rule. To prepare or to let be? To prepare for war, which is yet only guessed: train craftsmen and tillers in the midst of peace for bloodspilling and battle: put iron in the hands of greedy captains who will love only conquest, and count the slain as their glory? Will they say to Eru: At least your enemies were amongst them? Or to fold hands, while friends die unjustly: let men live in blind peace, until the ravisher is at the gate? What then will they do: match naked hands against iron and die in vain, or flee leaving the cries of women behind them? Will they say to Eru: At least I spilled no blood?"''\\
''"When either way may lead to evil, of what worth is choice? Let the Valar rule under Eru! I will resign the Sceptre to Aldarion. Yet that also is a choice, for I know well which road he will take."''
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->''"Dammnit, why do people always have to choose between omnipotent evil and impotent good?"''
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->''"Dammnit, why do people always have to choose between omnipotent evil and impotent good?"''
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-->-- '''[[CloningBlues LX-13]]''', ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "[[Recap/SmallvilleS10E01Lazarus Lazarus]]"
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''Buzzo pulls out one of your party members.''\\
'''Buzzo:''' Do you like him? … Do you love him?”\\
'''[[StaticRoleExchangableCharacter Party Member]]:''' …\\
'''Buzzo:''' Do you care? Have you changed at all Brad?\\
'''Brad:''' …\\
'''Buzzo:''' Prove it to me… [[AnArmAndALeg Your arm]]. You don’t deserve it… I want it. That’s not too harsh, right? How about it? Your left arm… [[KilledOffForReal For his life]]…
-->-- ''VideoGame/{{LISA}}'', end of Area 1
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'''Buzzo:''' Do you like him? … Do you love him?”\\
'''[[StaticRoleExchangableCharacter Party Member]]:''' …\\
'''Buzzo:''' Do you care? Have you changed at all Brad?\\
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'''Buzzo:''' Prove it to me… [[AnArmAndALeg Your arm]]. You don’t deserve it… I want it. That’s not too harsh, right? How about it? Your left arm… [[KilledOffForReal For his life]]…
-->-- ''VideoGame/{{LISA}}'', end of Area 1
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->"Mrs. Matheson, I'm sorry, but you need to choose which one of your children I'm going to kill."
-->-- '''Sgt. Will Strausser''', ''Series/{{Revolution}}'', "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E10NobodysFaultButMine Nobody's Fault But Mine]]"
-->-- '''Sgt. Will Strausser''', ''Series/{{Revolution}}'', "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E10NobodysFaultButMine Nobody's Fault But Mine]]"
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->''"[[RightMakesMight Pacifism]], [[MightMakesRight defending yourself]], both are imperfect. [[TheAntiNihilist Misery, failure, and suffering are inevitable parts of being human, and no matter what you believe in, what meta-narrative you follow, you'll always have to confront this eventuality.]] A distraught [[spoiler:Pascal]] asks you to either [[SuicideByCop kill him]], or [[DeathOfPersonality wipe his memories]]. Both options are equally horrifying. Both of these options once again represent the dual failed ideologies on display. To kill [[spoiler:Pascal]] would end his meaningless existence, but it does nothing but perpetuate the meaningless cycle [[AllForNothing he spent his whole life trying to escape]]. To delete his memories is to [[AllForNothing sacrifice everything for an imaginary ideal]]-- the damage is done, and if [[spoiler:Pascal]]'s memories are deleted, will [[spoiler:Pascal]] as we know him will die too? You’re left with nothing but a [[EmptyShell hollow shell]] filled with nothing but the same timid, pacifistic rhetoric that caused this whole mess to begin with. [[TakeAThirdOption I did neither.]] I walked away, leaving [[spoiler:Pascal]] to his suffering."''
-->-- '''[[https://youtu.be/4EnbSokFpjQ Adam Millard]]''' on ''VideoGame/NierAutomata''
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->''"[[RightMakesMight Pacifism]], [[MightMakesRight defending yourself]], both are imperfect. [[TheAntiNihilist Misery, failure, and suffering are inevitable parts of being human, and no matter what you believe in, what meta-narrative you follow, you'll always have to confront this eventuality.]] A distraught [[spoiler:Pascal]] asks you to either [[SuicideByCop kill him]], or [[DeathOfPersonality wipe his memories]]. Both options are equally horrifying. Both of these options once again represent the dual failed ideologies on display. To kill [[spoiler:Pascal]] would end his meaningless existence, but it does nothing but perpetuate the meaningless cycle [[AllForNothing he spent his whole life trying to escape]]. To delete his memories is to [[AllForNothing sacrifice everything for an imaginary ideal]]-- the damage is done, and if [[spoiler:Pascal]]'s memories are deleted, will [[spoiler:Pascal]] as we know him will die too? You’re left with nothing but a [[EmptyShell hollow shell]] filled with nothing but the same timid, pacifistic rhetoric that caused this whole mess to begin with. [[TakeAThirdOption I did neither.]] I walked away, leaving [[spoiler:Pascal]] to his suffering."''
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'''John:''' ''No'', Aeryn, this is ''not'' what I ''want!'' It's just that fate keeps blocking all the exits! And no matter what I do, I just keep circling closer to the flame!
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'''John:''' ''No'', Aeryn, this is ''not'' what I ''want!'' It's just that fate keeps blocking all the exits! And no matter what I do, I just keep circling closer to the flame!
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->''"I don't know how. I'm not a teacher, Ice. I'm a fighter pilot. Naval aviator. It's not what I am, it's who I am. How do I teach that? Even if I could teach it, it's not what Rooster wants. It's not what the Navy wants. It's why they canned me the last time. The only reason I'm here is you. If I send him on this mission, he might never come home. And if I don't send him, he'll never forgive me. Either way, I can lose him forever."''
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-> [[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne]] stared into Lies eyes, shaking with the impossible choice. Nothing could be worse than her father, mother, sister and Peter falling into the gloves of this monster. But after Lies had stood by her, only a monster would abandon the Dutch girl to unthinkable torture. Every lie the Nazis roared out to Europe that Jews cared for nothing but their kin would become true in Lies' death. Anne's love for her family, the purest part of herself she had held through years of fighting, would become black and filthy. She was destroyed and damned, whatever she said.
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[[AC:Indeed.]] Granny didn't bother to turn round. "I thought you'd be here," she said, as she knelt down in the straw.\\
[[AC:Where else??]] said Death.\\
"Do you know who you're here for?"\\
[[AC: That's not my choice. On the ''very'' edge you will always find some uncertainty.]]Granny felt the words in her head for several seconds, like little melting cubes of ice. On the very, very edge, then, there had to be... Judgement.\\
"There's too much damage here," she said, at last. "Too much."\\
A few minutes later she felt the life stream past her. Death had the decency to leave without a word.
-->-- ''Literature/CarpeJugulum''
