Playing God

Abstract

If you had the ability to try and improve humanity by playing God, would you do it? Do you have an ethical obligation to do it? In this philosophical short story fiction, Jack is abducted by the Zoomarians, an alien race who seeded earthlings. However, the Zoomarians have come to believe humans are going astray; that they are too violent, too selfish, and too destructive to their environment. Accordingly, they have kidnapped Jack in an effort to have Jack play god by projecting his voice into the minds of various humans about to do wrong. It is the Zoomarians’ hope that, over time, Jack will be able to move humanity onto a more noble path. Jack initially declines the offer, but changes his mind and settles into a long life of trying to save humanity, one person as a time.