Scrolls were recently discovered that narrated the story of a sage who lived years back and had the opportunity to define what existence is as we know it. He was told that life would cease to exist in 300 years due to the growing population and finite resources in circulation, thus he was presented with two options:
- The first is that things continue as they are, and humans will eventually be extinct when the time span of 300 years elapses.
- The second is that he had the chance to wipe out half of the human population so as to ensure that resources become surplus and life can be sustained beyond 300 years.
The sage ended up picking the first option.