“As long as we’re talking about children, answer me this riddle. Not a riddle, really, more like a fable (I found it in a commentary on The First and Last Freedom). You know, these stories that are meant to provoke you, like a personality test, you just have to answer honestly … For example, this one: if you knew that you could push a button and someone would die in another hemisphere, someone you have never seen, and at the same moment you would receive a fortune, would you do it?”
“Ah, I know these stories, there’s even a novel based on one: would you murder and rob an old pawnbroker, a no-good, evil person, a human louse, if you could use her money to become a benefactor of humanity? But there’s always a catch: there’s nothing more dangerous than letting a parable become reality. An intelligent and creative person like Raskolnikov did this, just to understand later that he had deceived himself terribly, because he didn’t know himself at all …”
Мирча Кэртэрэску, Соленоид
