You are an overseer of an spaceship carrying colonists to another planet, both old and young as an expedition for the Earth Government. Suddenly, Death comes and talks to you. He/it says that you must sacrifice either the old or young or he will destroy the ship. So you decide to sacrifice them, but who? Vote above.
In this scenario the old are experienced in life and blah blah whatever therefore making them efficient(in a sense that they know what to do and are able to advance current available technology your ship has.) at everything they do, but they are old, and will die out soon. And they cannot procreate too. (like in 200 years or something everyone of the expedition will be dead.)
The young however are inexperienced (this makes them need to learn how to use current technology in the ship before advancing them to the next level, but the generation would die out after fully understanding the tech, as they spent their lives learning them.) and has to learn everything what the old knows but it'll cost them their life and by the time they are done learning they too will be old. But at their young age they can procreate, unlike the old who cannot.
EDIT! Death wants you to choose now or die. Therefore the old cannot teach the young because there isn't enough time. And he/it wants the sacrifice now and then, so if you chose the young they would be sacrificed and the next batch of young humans will also be sacrificed(though that's not gonna happen as the old cannot procreate.), but if you choose the old the same happens. Even though you maybe in the spaceship on a colonist mission it happens to be that you need better tech to find planets that are habitable and then colonise them, and this the old can help. If not, you would remain in space with the ship still searching for planets. Also, this is the first ever mission for the Human race, if it fails, Humanity will die on Earth eventually due to fear of what's in the outer space. If it succeeds, Humanity will continue to do so and eventually survive on as a spiecies better.
In this scenario the old are experienced in life and blah blah whatever therefore making them efficient(in a sense that they know what to do and are able to advance current available technology your ship has.) at everything they do, but they are old, and will die out soon. And they cannot procreate too. (like in 200 years or something everyone of the expedition will be dead.)
The young however are inexperienced (this makes them need to learn how to use current technology in the ship before advancing them to the next level, but the generation would die out after fully understanding the tech, as they spent their lives learning them.) and has to learn everything what the old knows but it'll cost them their life and by the time they are done learning they too will be old. But at their young age they can procreate, unlike the old who cannot.
EDIT! Death wants you to choose now or die. Therefore the old cannot teach the young because there isn't enough time. And he/it wants the sacrifice now and then, so if you chose the young they would be sacrificed and the next batch of young humans will also be sacrificed(though that's not gonna happen as the old cannot procreate.), but if you choose the old the same happens. Even though you maybe in the spaceship on a colonist mission it happens to be that you need better tech to find planets that are habitable and then colonise them, and this the old can help. If not, you would remain in space with the ship still searching for planets. Also, this is the first ever mission for the Human race, if it fails, Humanity will die on Earth eventually due to fear of what's in the outer space. If it succeeds, Humanity will continue to do so and eventually survive on as a spiecies better.
