Corruption
A doctor is accompanied by a room full of nurses for a surgery. The biggest surgery of his life. There are two different problems with this situation. The doctor's best friend is dying on a table in the next room, as well as this man, on the table in front of him. The surgeon has the ability and power to save only one life. The surgeon's brother, the man in the other room is his best friend and his co-worker. The two brothers have been hard at work on a cure for cancer, for over 5 years. In ten minutes all of their hard work would be left to the the surgeon: the life saver: the killer. The two patients have raced for the struggle to have this one organ transplant. They are both equally entitled to the organ but one man's name just happened to be higher on the list than the other. The surgeon thinks to himself, "If I save Fred's life, it would save millions of people. In just a few months we will have perfected our cure adn all will be well. I would gain money from the publicity of our achievement and this man in front of me will be thanked for that. But is this the right thing to do?" He has the ability to control his future, right now.
The surgeon prepared for the surgery. He picks up the scalpel in his right hand, which quivers with itensity. "This is the right decision,"he tells himself. His fearful thought of loosing the success of completeing cure corrupts his action. He picks up the organ in the dish and takes it out of the room. "I will be rightback", he tells the nurses around him.
The surgeon walks back into the surgery 10 minutes later, ""Your organ donor has failed. I'm sorry but you wont have an organ transplant today".
This flash fiction story relates to both side of my thematic focus, the Corruption of Others and Self Corruption. The surgeon corrupted the man on the table in front of him, by stealing his organ for his own benefit of saving his best friend in the next room because he needed him for his own purposes. "He picks up the organ in the dish and takes it out of the room", he minipulates the situation because of the power he is in, the leader of the surgery. By saving his best friend he would buy time for them to finish their cure for cancer, but under the guilt of killing the man who had claimed the organ first. This is an act of the Corruption of Others. The surgeon's selfishness corrupted his own mind by blinding him to see clearly of the situation. It was the indifference the surgeon had for the man on the table in front of him, that pursuaded him to steal another man's organ. He feared the loss of his success from the cure for cancer, which over powered any self morals the surgeon may of had, "But is this the right thing to do?" This is an example of Self Corruption. This flash fiction piece expresses how easy it can be to corrupt. You don't think about corrupting until your in the position where it is an option.
