“With great power comes great responsibility.” - Assignment 6 - Emily Sandford

1.)    Press the button. If you press the button then you can trade anything from this world for that of another or anything we don’t have, but you have no control of the outcome. Would you press it explain why or why not.

2.)    You can live anywhere in the world a city, a zoo, an island, but you can never leave. The other option is never staying or returning to one place but you get to go anywhere you like. Choose wisely.

3.)    You find yourself in a library full of unlabeled books, you pick one up what do you hope it contains inside.

I choose number one, and I press the button.

If I could remove anything from this world it would be out of control gag reflexes, the ones were one person pukes and then the entire room starts to puke yeah, those. The reason being the world would be a lot more sanitary without it. This is something that wouldn’t have such a devastating effect, because if I said something like disease then the world would become over populated.

The thing I would trade out of control gag reflexes for would be improved empathy. Improved empathy would increase the number of well thought out decisions, and the world would be in a better position for change in ideas. Empathy would increase equality while decreasing violence. I could’ve said something like magic, or superpowers while those would be AMAZING but I’ve seen the movies and read the books. Things like that always have unforeseen consequences (Looking at you Voldemort, and Ultron), and like Spiderman’s Uncle Ben said, “With great power comes great responsibility.” This is something not many people would possess in this situation because greed can not be eliminated, and even if I traded greed for magic then power and control and fear all still exist, its for that reason I chose something small and trivial to give up for something just as small. But it is known that the small things are what amount to the most change, and this change would be moving in the positive direction and with  the most minimized collateral damage possible.