Horror Thought

[ravan]

If you had a secret biolab, and could engineer a plague that would kill everyone over 70, including those nasty politicians who are destroying our world, would you do it?

Everyone over 70, gone in weeks, good or bad.

How about just men* over 70? (* "men" being defined as having a Y chromosome, which could also hit some intersex.)

My mind keeps seeing a young idealist makes a grave mistake, then scrambles to find a cure for his own disease, with the help of assorted oddballs.

Comments

[dubhain]

No. That's some serious Final Solution level genocidal thinking.

Also, I know many White folks, including White males, who don't support any of the idiocy that's running amok in the world, right now. It would, essentially, be analogous to a proposal to execute all the Ásatrú, because a significant faction of the Ásatrú are racist and White supremacist.

Disclaimer: I tend to be highly allergic to genocide and genocidal suggestions, as one of my (somewhat distant) relatives was a major player in the Holocaust.

[ravan]

But it would make for a hell of a thriller/horror novel.

There are so many ways it could go out of control, etc.

One of the big subplots would be dealing with those who don't want it stopped.

Let the right wing nuts write the "gay plague" stories.

[dubhain]

Reminds me a little of the Heinlein book "Sixth Column."

[ravan]

Hmmm. I may have to go back & re-read that one