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Thursday, January 30, 2020

Night of One Hundred Horrors - A Questionable Ethic [#159]

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           I know you won’t believe me, but I saw it with my own eyes. It sounds crazy, but whatever their studying down in the lab is horrifying. They say their research is going to a good cause, but they’re lying. Whatever poor being their torturing down, there is crying out for help. I don’t know what they plan to learn from it, but I’m sure I won’t like the answer.
           Maybe, they’ll discover a revolutionary medical procedure or some biological secret that will change science forever. I wonder if it will be worth all the unethical actions they performed to get there. That being, whether it’s sentient or not, can most certainly feel pain, that much was clear. I fear what might happen if it ever broke free, or if it has any friends that come looking for it.
           I can’t go back down there anymore, the cries and screams are too much for me to handle. I don’t approve of what they’re doing, but I also don’t have the guts to go down there and free it. I’d just get fired, and that’s if I was lucky, that being might rip my head off in a panic.
           I think I’ll request a transfer, move to a different branch far away. I don’t want to be here when it all goes south. I know it sounds crazy, I spent so long trying to get a job here, and now I’m trying to leave already. You weren’t there, you didn’t hear the screams. This reeks of trouble, and I avoid trouble when I see it. I don’t care how much they’re paying me, the consequences won’t be worth it.
           Don’t tell anyone I told you this, because it won’t just be my head on the chopping block. It’d be best for you to avoid that place, move away if that’s an option. Like I said, this will all go south sooner rather than later, and I don’t need any more tragedies on my conscience.

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Sometimes, when you see a grave injustice, you're first instinct is to not be involved. It's not the right thing to do, but that's the problem with self-preservation sometimes.

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