Greater Good **Spoilers for Doctor Who and Torchwood**

In World Cultures III, we are going through the age of Enlightenment and going into Modernity. Tomorrow's readings are reports about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. One of the authors asks this question in an example. Imagine there is a war, a huge war and what if the only way that it come to end soon (no definite end, only soon) is for us to kill hundreds of thousands of children...and only then, we could probably end the war, saving more lives than the hundreds of thousands of children (Mapping of the Modern World 134).

It seems to me that this question is always going to be asked, especially in the time of war. But being the Doctor Who nerd that I am, I see this as the question that the Doctor has to answer a thousand times over. Captain Jack Harkness has a similar situation where he has to also deal with the gray area in a time of crisis. The Doctor has to give up something dear in order to preserve the safety of the rest of the beings on earth. Jack has to do the exact thing in Children of Earth. He has to decide whether to let 10% of all the children of the earth to go and become victims of the 456 (creepy alien) or sacrifice someone close and dear to him. This is another gray area in life where you need wisdom more than anything. It's a hard situation and near impossible to know what you would do in such a position. I honestly hope that I am never put in a position where I have to make such a decision because I am sure that I will make the selfish choice rather think of the greater good of the world.

Beginning again...

Starting a blog is no big deal. Keeping up with a blog is a totally different story. I'm horrible about keeping up with such things. It's like a journal...sorta. I can't even stay committed to a journal. I think this is where I lack focus and dedication. Something I clearly need to work on. :-)

So far, sophomore year has been very busy. Busier than freshman year which makes me slightly confused. I'm only taking 5 classes, but the professors decide to dump 20+ pages of reading on you each night. Though the subjects interest me, the reading is a lot. I don't even have time to watch my Doctor Who on a whim. I know, it's devastating. (I have to actually schedule Doctor Who time into my planner. My planner is so filled...it looks like a pen threw up all over the pages. True story.)

Another thing that has come to my mind lately is what I want to do with my Anthropology major. Do I want to do archaeology? Do I want to do anthropology? Do I want to do Egyptology? I have 2 and a half years left here at university. I think I have time to figure that out. Just taking one day at a time. It's how you get by.