Informing People of the End

ChaosI'm not saying that people should be allowed to run around and slaughter people if they want to. What I'm saying is that inmate on death row is given the right to talk to a priest, call family, eat what they want etc. That is what I mean by wanting to live out their final days in the way they wish to. Once again I will point out that people with tendencies to exhibit violent behavior have mental abnormalities that make them more prone to such activity that most people do not have. [1] Yes, this goes for all violent behavior, rape and armed robbery included. This being said, the majority of people will not choose to spend their last days in an orgy of destruction. The crime numbers in the United States are actually quite low [2] and even if you multiplied the numbers by 10 it would not be enough to justify sending millions of people unknowingly to their death. a. Using the crime rates I posted in my source we can see that, Americans, in general have very low rates of crime. Also, people's tendency to veer towards religion, the nature of guilt and the charity organizations around the world point to a human race that is inherently good.Logic I addressed the abnormal mind part above, however I would like to reiterate that this means that most people would not take the chance to partake in these activities, some would, but the majority would not. Most people do not display this abnormality and therefore would not show inclination to partake in such violence. EmpiricsYou cannot discern their motivations just by the nature of the things they stole. Perhaps the grocery store is underwater and the CVS has already been looted. Then what? If Best Buy is next store then you'll bust in and take a TV to trade or sell later. You cannot tell their motivations for stealing but bets are that it was for some sort of survival, preservation for the future. The Nature of CrimeThe majority of crimes stem from desperation such as poverty, drug use, mental illness. Now, without a future to stride for, without the fear of neverending poverty the need to steal, to store money away, to hold up a store essentially vanishes. If you don't have to worry about paying your loan off next summer you might not have to stoop to crime in order to achieve this goal. Very few crimes are committed for the sake of doing evil, and the ones that are are due to abnomalities in the brain. This being said, I can safely say your argument for the crime rates are overexaggerated. NasaYou argument is interesting yet I still think it isn't viable. It took 8 years for us to develope a rocket capable of going to the moon [3], but going to the moon in this case wouldn't be enough. We would have to go to Mars or beyond while sustaining a habitable ecosystem for us to live in off world. This just isn't viable, especially not in three months. We couldn't even maintain a self sufficient biodome here on Earth and the one we tried failed miserably. [4] That being said, even if your (very generous) 1% chance was possible here's a solution:Kennedy Space Center functions like a military base, there's a gate, buffer zone etc. Move some military personnel down to Cape Canaveral and have them protect the Space Center while the project is underway by promising them a spot on the spacecraft when their mission is done. Simple. They would have an incentive to protect Canaveral and would do so. Viral InformationYou would never be able to keep something like this a secret so not telling the people would be pointless. The scientists that discover it would tell their wives, who would tell their kids, who would tell their friends, etc. All it would take would be one facebook post, one comment to the media and everyone in the world would know in a matter of days. Keeping a secret in today's world is nearly impossible especially without incentive to keep such a secret. The scientists would tell someone and the news would gradually spread. So by telling them early you therefore eliminate the speculation of rumor and the mistrust that comes with it. Nuclear Strike Your argument doesn't make sense. While each person in the US is only liable to another "60 years", the United States as an entity will stand until destroyed. Al Qaeda doesn't hate individual Americans, they hate America. There's a difference. There is a future to impact, times to plan for, kids to raise, security for the next generation but in our scenario that goes away and without that many of the things that would propel a country to war will be destroyed. Why would Pakistan care about Khashmir when the world will be rubble in a matter of weeks? They wouldn't. Jihad would not be called in this situation. Jihad is a holy struggle to advance the will of Islam but there will no longer be a future to advance Islam into, so why would they bother? If I told you that you'd be dead tomorrow, would you spend today trying to hunt down the bully you hate and beat him up? I doubt it. EqualityFirst of all your source is a MOVIE! So my source is truly the only source there is, showing that there is one poll on a forum website informally taken from internet nerds showing a single number. Based on this I move to throw the polls away. Either way, I don't think such polls are reliable sources of information for the reasons posted. Until such a situation occurs we cannot tell how people really would want to react? We can't. The right to know does not outweigh the right to security. Security can be procured on individual, local, state and national basises. People in a neighborhood can band together in order to protect themselves but these people cannot ban together and find out this information. The government has a respsonibility to the people to share this information because people are capable of their own security but they are not capable of discovering such information on their own. Also, these people are going to die anyways, so like I've said before, they should have right to access certain rites. Last MealI said that your chaos is speculation but that was poor wording. I meant that, based on the information I have provided, the level of crime and chaos you have tried to display is overblown and overexaggerated. Criminals are offered the right to induldge in their favorite food and humanity should be provided the same right. We are elevated above common criminals!Depriving the GoodHumanity has the right to grieve for itself, to correct old wrongs, to eat their favorite meal before they go and to spend their last days in the arms of their kids, their wives, their mothers and fathers. They have the right to reflect on their existence, come to terms with their own mortalitiy and make peace with themselves. Chaos might remove some laws but it also brings people together. Tragedy unites people and the outpouring of love and forgiveness in this situation would be unfathomable and you have no right to stop such good. In fact denying this right is borderline evil. If you're feeling paranoid and anxious don't you want to be with loved ones? Or do you want to die in a cubicle wondering when your break is coming?When you die don't you want to die in the arms of your lover? With your bestfriend? Laughing with old pals? With your pet? On your couch? Don't you want to be surrounded by love and comfort when you go? Give the people the right to be like that. Everyone dies, give humanity the opporitunity to die on its own terms. Give the people the right to die in the arms of their spouses. Let the best of human nature come out in the end, allow people to choose where they want to die, allow people to forgive and find peace. Thank you.[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...[2] http://www.nationmaster.com...[3] http://en.wikipedia.org...(rocket_family)#Early_development[4] http://en.wikipedia.org...