1. Our group chose a woman scientist who has a degree in botany and biological sciences, a male
army officer with PTSD, a male doctor of internal medicine, and a female engineering professor.
We chose the scientist because her knowledge of plant-life will help to develop crops for our
greenhouse and can help do the same when we begin to rebuild civilization. The army officer
was primarily chosen for after the survivors leave the bunker. The assignment is unclear
whether or not any animals survive the incident, and if they did the survivors will need someone
with proper militaristic knowledge to defend them. Not to mention, his military training can help
him gather meat. The doctor was chosen for obvious reasons. He can help when the survivors
become sick, and hopefully in the future will help deliver babies. He can also pass down his
medical knowledge. The professor was chosen to help literally rebuild after the incident. Her
knowledge about engineering is an invaluable resource. We did not choose the priest, the
married hippy drug addicts, the single pregnant female with a five year old, the elderly woman,
the disabled person, the lawyer, or the lazy welfare dependent. Though my group disagreed for
me for the most part on this, for me the priest was the first to go. In my opinion, most religions
are more harmful than helpful and the world would be better off without Christianity. The married
drug addicts would have just been miserable with their withdrawal symptoms and would be of
no benefit. The pregnant woman and her child would have been too big of a burden. As cruel as
it would be to kill a mother and (technically) two of her children with her, it would have to be
done. The elderly woman would have died off anyways. The lawyer was hard for us to kill off.
His knowledge of the law could have helped rebuild civilization, but the chosen survivors just
had more to offer. The lazy welfare dependent would do nothing to benefit the survivors. In fact,
he would make their situation even more dire. You mentioned in class that we chose nothing but
leaders. That may be untrue, however, between the four of them, they are intelligent enough to
recognize that not only is it pointless to worry who is leader, but they have far more pressing
issues than who will lead them. Like, I don’t know, the fact that everyone else on the planet is
supposedly dead.
