NationStates Jolt Archive

So I got this quite a while ago. It's under the title "Easter Egg! - Should we pull the Lever?" Here it is:

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The Issue -
During the middle of the night, someone has mysteriously put a lever in the middle of the city park. On it, it says, "Pull the Lever, and See the World End."

The Debate -
1) "I've always wanted to see the apocalypse." says an elderly man on a park bench. "All that fire and brimstone. To see God's wrath. Something I can tell my grandchildren about later on. I say we should."

2) "Not on your life!" says his wife sitting next to him. "If you pull that lever, we'll have no grandchildren, no life, only heaven and hell. Don't you dare pull that lever."

3) "Now, don't think of it as a do/don't option," says a hot dog vendor. "What if we give tours so that people can see the lever? Not to touch it of course, but to see that humanity can be ruined by such a contraption. We can make a profit."
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Now, here's where I'm running into trouble. If I go with option one, which I want to do just to show the futility of such an enterprise, I could concievably destroy my nation. If I go with option two, I give a tacit aprooval that the lever is real which is the antithesis of my nation's avowed Atheism. Option three, or dismissal, might blow a cool issue which, judging by the Easter Egg prefix, doesn't appear often.

Anyone else run into this? What have they discovered from the various options? Thanks for the help.

I think you should pull it! World's got to end sometime. If it had a beginning that is...

I say... hmm. well not option two for me because my nation too is athiest, however, i think we should take the lever away and lock it up and take it out only to threaten terrorists.

tata,

I am the Wise yet Callow Queen Lupin~Zodiac, Friend of the Trees, Lover of the Crazy, One Who Walks Hand in Hand with Nighly Creatures, Who Crawls into Huddles of Viral Infections, Insane to Reality, Traveler of the Worlds, Sailing Ship Captian, Singer to the Sheep, Catcher of the Stars, and Inventor of her Time

I can't remember what hapens, as I remember, I have only ever made the choice to put it on display to make money ... But I always though this was one of the most " deep " issues in the game ...1) "I've always wanted to see the apocalypse." says an elderly man on a park bench. "All that fire and brimstone. To see God's wrath. Something I can tell my grandchildren about later on. I say we should."Seem the point out that if we pull the lever, what will happen ? Will the world end, or will it go on even if we think it is over ? Or is this guy just nuts ? And will pulling it prove there is a god ? Why would he have wrath for us ? What has made him so angry ? Sooo many questions.2)"Not on your life!" says his wife sitting next to him. "If you pull that lever, we'll have no grandchildren, no life, only heaven and hell. Don't you dare pull that lever."This is interesting. We are told there will be no no life ( as we know it, it seems ) but we will instead have heaven and hell ... once again, will pulling the lever prove that there is a god ? That there is an after-life, after all ? Surely, if we pull it, and the religions we are taught are true, the good would go to heaven, and the bad will go to hell ... but what if religion is wrong and there is only chaos to guide the final fates of all nation-kind ? And if we do pull it, we will die ... so she thinks ... I can see though why her husband wants you to pull it ...3) "Now, don't think of it as a do/don't option," says a hot dog vendor. "What if we give tours so that people can see the lever? Not to touch it of course, but to see that humanity can be ruined by such a contraption. We can make a profit."Some irony here I think. " to see that humanity can be ruined by such a contraption " ... so let us make money of this ? hmmm ... is making money on the lever just a component in the machine of mad-ness, this contraption we behold, pay our $ 5 dollars for and stroll past ? If we don't take one of the two paths that take us into the maze of the un-known, where else do we go ? No-where ? ...

The mind boggles ...

( clears throat )

Of course, my crystal ball tells me that if you push ... or pull, what-ever, the lever, do not fear ... I just hope you like kittens ...

heh ...

Crap, now I'm curious. What would happen??

......*dances around* I WANT THE LEVER!!

must... know... what... happens

please let us know, and leave it as a spoiler thing so that people can be suprised if they want to. just a suggestion, of course.

this game is fun.

You may face this only once in your life, on one side you may obliterate everything and find yourself with nothing.. then again you may obliterate nothing and find yourself with everything? I certainly would not profit from it and put it on display, it was given to you as a gift, use it. You are an atheist so technically nothing will happen if you select option one or option two. Second, you are in a socialist nation so profiteering from this 'magic handle' would not be something you would normally do am I correct? Go for it! Pull the handle and prove yourself wrong.

Well, if you want to know the effects of each option, we've pretty muchly hashed them all out already... Picking 1 will get 'thousands of rampaging furry kittens' in your nation. 2 will leave 'a doomsday device sitting untouched in a public park'. And 3 will get you a 'private sector based on doomsday devices'.

OMFG all three choices sound good after that spoiler!

i know they figured out the conditions to get this egg but what were they
1 bill+ pop and holy in pre title right
was there any thing else

I thought " holy in pre-title " was the nuke one ...