Challenging the Impossible by Christian Hofsetz

Challenging the Impossible by Christian Hofsetz

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Challenging the Impossible

When I was 8 years old, my best friend asked me a serious question.

“What would you do if everybody in the world was held hostage, and the only way to save them was to turn yourself in. But then, you’d be killed.”

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As any young child would do, I ignored how nonsensical the question was, and how he had come to such a high-stakes hypothetical situation. Instead, I considered the possibilities, like any best friend would do. The truth is, in my mind there was only one possible answer.

“I’d turn myself in,” I said.

But it doesn’t matter what I said. When someone asks these types of questions, they really want to give their own opinion about it.

“Not me,” he said, matter-of-factly. “I would investigate it.”

8-year-old me…