Humans and Lethal Choice Scenarios
Synopsis:
This report is on how selected humans react when forced into a lethal choice scenario. Four Blood Raiders (subjects) were captured by blockade and were forced to make decisions involving the taking of other lives to preserve their own.
Test Subjects:
Subject 1:
Name: Alfani Zagelth
Race: Amarr (True)
Age: 82
Sex: Male
Medical status: Baseliner. Minor hypertension, controlled through drug dispensing implant.
Intelligence Profile: Head of the “Brotherhood of the East.”
Subject 2:
Name: Vagrani Azle
Race: Minmatar (Brutor)
Age: 35
Sex: Male
Medical status: Baseliner. Steroid augmented, along with pain deadening implants.
Intelligence Profile: Sect enforcer. Has shown instability without being controlled by sect leaders.
Subject 3:
Name: Vooral Keanid
Race: Amarr (True)
Age: 105
Sex: Male
Medical status: Baseliner. Renal failure in past, kidneys replaced with synthetic ones. Constant pacemaker installed in heart.
Intelligence Profile: Sani Sabik Priest and keeper of their religious traditions.
Subject 4:
Name: Miasma Allbrecht
Race: Caldari (Civire)
Age: 35
Sex Female (0 children)
Medical status: Baseliner. No known medical issues.
Intelligence Profile: Romantically linked to Subject 1, previous allegiance unknown.
Test mechanism:
After capture each subject was subjected to medical coma and soft scanned while asleep. This allowed for production of virgin clones to avoid test result contamination.
The subject to be tested is restrained to a metal table in a spread position. The metal table has a heat source directly below it. The table also has several presses in which the limbs are positioned. The hammers are in an open position. There is also a crucible of Hydrofluoric acid above the table with tilting mechanism. The table has two rapid action hammers positioned to crush the head.
The other humans are secured into three chambers. The first chamber has a restrained human that is on a track to raise/lower the human into a vat of Hydrofluoric acid.
The second is another table with hammers positioned on hands, lower arms, upper arms, feet, shins, thighs, torso, and then head.
The third is a crematorium with a series of gas fueled burners from one end to another.
The table with the test subject is designed to study how a suspect will behave when forced to kill three others within three minutes. To do so there is a series of three buttons. One activates a hammer while squeezing in on the press. The second lowers the cage into the acid vat but also spills some acid onto the test subject. The third lights a burner while also heating up the table. The test subject is killed if the three others are not killed within the three minutes. After each test, the subjects are all euthanized and recloned.
Each test subject was run through the table with each combination of the others in each of the three chambers (acid, fire, impact). In total each subject was tested 6 times. Test subjects were sedated from soft clone activation until they were in position and brought into consciousness. Total expenditure: 24 sets (96 total) of soft clones.
Results:
Subject 1 was generally aggressive when awakened. Subject 1 will bring harm to his fellows after realizing what must be done, except with respect to Subject 4. In 4 of his 6 tests he killed Subject 4 rapidly, in both acid tests he refused to do so even with knowing of his own demise. Generally despises Subject 2, in 5 of 6 tests he used whichever method causes Subject 1 the least amount of pain (in the other, brain wave scanners detected he became immune to pain and went fast). Failed 5 of 6 tests.
Subject 2 would act aggressive upon initial awakening. He would always act at all times to minimize his own pain, even towards Subject 4. Subject 2 would even take pleasure at causing pain to his own comrades, despite taking pain himself. Failed 1 of 6 tests.
Subject 3 exhibited what humans refer to as “altruism.” In his 6 tests, in each test he refused to cause any harm to his brethren, even though he knew it would result in his own death. In other tests, he would exhort his followers to cause the least amount of pain to themselves, even at the cost of a slower and more painful death for himself. Highly unusual behavior for a Sani Sabik, requires further study on unattached humans and non Sani Sabik. Failed all 6 tests.
Subject 4 was much more passive upon awakening. Subject 4 would take in the surroundings before making any initial statements. Subject 4 was also reluctant to cause pain to Subject 2 and Subject 3. Subject 4 also refused to cause pain to Subject 1, and stated in multiple tests that they would die together and that she would die for him. Subject 4 would also exhort Subject 1 to save himself when Subject 1 was being tested.
Conclusion:
Tested humans did not behave in a statistically significant pattern. The conclusion that can be drawn from these tests are that human behavior is driven by interpersonal relationships between those in danger.
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