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[eatsyourscience]

[Souji's not in the diner for once. He's in the library. Not really...doing anything, just...being. In the library.]

Did anyone else get this in their advent calendars today?

[He holds up a piece of paper with the following message printed on it:

Pc dsts kvkqbw cbu rq afvg zziu
Tfv vvfwg oeh ocii, K ogsncxmbs
Esy W’mi pcklkbx pgtk xq uzzg
Oeh pcn, rqbv sh mfy uvrpn zzzg
Kyev wj hqbv gcbk fg iehqbv
Mo gfvtm, jstfp, ixsicqbv]

I know people have gotten different riddles or poems. So I'm wondering, did everyone get different messages, too?

Comments

[krmvgivv]

What if that's the only way? What if we have to do it or we all die?

[eatsyourscience]

Is it okay to sacrifice one person so the rest of us survive?

[krmvgivv]

Is it okay not to?

[Dipper doesn't know. He paces, frowning hard.]

It's like that ethical problem thingy. You know, with the hoard of rampaging elephants? Where if you do nothing they'll charge and trample five zebras, but if you cause a landslide those zebras will be safe but there's an especially cute baby antelope that will be crushed. Do you save the zebras and murder an antelope? Are you murdering the zebras if you don't murder the antelope? Is this a really contrived moral dilemma? I don't know!

[eatsyourscience]

...No, it's definitely a really contrived moral dilemma.

[Zebras and antelopes? Really?]

I guess "if I can't save everyone, then no one should be saved" isn't that great of an outlook either, though.

[krmvgivv]

Hey, I didn't make it up. Moral philosophers are weird.

[He huffs out a sigh wraps his arms around himself.]

No. There has to be a better way. I just... don't know what it is yet.

[eatsyourscience]

We'll figure something out. We have to. It's just a matter of if we figure it out in time or not.