March 30, 2026

The Greater Good

The blogger explore this play in terms of   Modern Ethics, Nihilism, and African Humanism.

The Greater Good (Utilitarianism)Characters: DIRECTOR (cold, logical) and ASSISTANT (distressed).Setting: A sterile control room with a single red button.ASSISTANT: We can’t do it. It’s one innocent person. We’d be killing them.DIRECTOR: And saving ten thousand. Do the math, Sarah.ASSISTANT: It’s not a math problem! It’s a human life. You can’t just weigh people like bags of grain.DIRECTOR: If you don’t press that button, ten thousand families lose a father, a mother, a child. One tragedy versus ten thousand. Which world is better to live in?ASSISTANT: The one where we don’t murder people to solve our problems!DIRECTOR: (Calmly) That’s a luxury of the heart. The mind knows that the greatest happiness for the greatest number is the only true justice.ASSISTANT: (Hand trembling over the button) Then who decides who the "one" is?DIRECTOR: The person holding the calculator.

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