[theatrical_muse] 334 - Vote

334 - Vote

I find myself thinking about that meeting a lot these days.

There really is no more important decision to be made than determining what's to be done with another person's life. In a lot of ways, it's a lot more difficult to pass judgment on the existence of one other person than it is to send a hundred soldiers into battle or to decide policies that can affect the health or livelihood of thousands. When it's one person, it might be someone you'll have to look right in the eyes as you tell them you've made the decision whether or not they get to keep on living.

And yes, it's a different situation when you're facing a kill-or-be-killed decision. In the middle of a fight for your life, snap decisions are the only kind you can afford to make. Human nature is to choose continuance, to choose existence. It's hard to blame a person for making that choice.

Sitting in a meeting room at the top of Stark Towers, we were faced with all those kinds of decisions, rolled into one.

( Time to choose )

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OOC Note: This is a canon-based prompt. See disclaimer.