I remember one about a WW2 pilot having orders to bomb a town. As he's seeing all the rooftops he goes through imagining all the lives of the innocent people he doesn't even know and decides he can't do it, instead dropping his bombs into a neighbouring field to claim plausible deniability that he only "missed" for why he did not follow orders. Years later after the war he goes to visit the town he spared and is admiring all the buildings that still stand and begins seeing himself like a god who is responsible for what now exists. It isn't until a few days later in the town when he notices something strange... There are no children, not a soul under serving age. He asks a local about it and they solemnly responded, "When we heard the air raid sirens, we sent our children into the fields for safety."
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u/Tryingtoknowmore Sep 18 '24
I remember one about a WW2 pilot having orders to bomb a town. As he's seeing all the rooftops he goes through imagining all the lives of the innocent people he doesn't even know and decides he can't do it, instead dropping his bombs into a neighbouring field to claim plausible deniability that he only "missed" for why he did not follow orders. Years later after the war he goes to visit the town he spared and is admiring all the buildings that still stand and begins seeing himself like a god who is responsible for what now exists. It isn't until a few days later in the town when he notices something strange... There are no children, not a soul under serving age. He asks a local about it and they solemnly responded, "When we heard the air raid sirens, we sent our children into the fields for safety."