For The Greater Good

Eugene had a difficult time dealing with his conscience.

His training had taught him that the passengers' safety is always top priority, and in the event of the unfortunate person falling onto the train tracks, he was to sacrifice that particularly unfortunate life for greater good - saving the passengers on board from the sudden application of emergency brakes which could send any passengers on their feet lunging violently forward. It was also easier for the company to dismiss the unfortunate death as a horribly unfortunate incident altogether, rather than to account for the numerous injuries caused by the driver's split second decision to jam-brake the train.

There is a standing joke-that-isn't-really-funny among the colleagues: The worst time for anybody to fall down onto the train tracks is during rush hour - confirm become sacrifice, and the company has to deal with waves of public dissention of "Why wait for train wait so long, why can't you guys be more efficient" and whatnot. The worst part of the train tracks to fall on is at the end part of the station, where the train first enters - driver confirm cannot spot you fast enough and train only just starting to reduce speed. The best kind of people to fall onto the tracks are fresh literature graduates - fresh out of university, with no concrete direction in life, and no skill that is valuable to the workforce, they are pretty much busy being a waste of valuable resources anyway.

Eugene was highly aware of the moral implications that came with sacrificing a human life in return for the safety of the majority, but what's done's done.

Twenty years later today, Eugene's stuck in a rut, constantly reminding himself that it's for the greater good, it's for the greater good. Training didn't teach him how to assuage the guilt that was haunting him. And nobody told him that it would last this long.

But it was probably for the greater good.

This is Heat like I've Never Known It.

For the first time since the stupid examinations ended, behold, a blog entry of sorts! =D

In a narcissistic fit, for the first time since I changed my blog layout, I took a look at my webpage with Internet Explorer and eeyuck, why is the layout like that? The text is tiny, too tiny, don't read it! It's bad for eyesight. Growls.

I don't understand! How come it looks perfectly fine with Mozilla? *grumbles grumbles* What am I supposed to do now? My blog is so pretty on Mozilla aaaaah!