Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-9041013-20180712113006

Okay, so I made this up a while ago for Reddit... cause I got bored and thought it'd be fun to play with ciphers.... cause why not. So, can you save this riddle? O:

"Hello there, readers of the Nosleep subreddit.

I’d like all of you to take part in my social experiment, I might not be a psychologist, but I do enjoy human psychology and I really like experimenting with things. Now, you don’t have to take part, but I’m guessing you will be willing after you finish reading this threat post. My experiment is going to deal with morality. Now here’s a question for every single one of you other there. Do you believe yourself to be a moral person?

Personally, I don’t see myself as a moral person, I don’t see the value of morals, or any other anthropocentric idea, including that of the value of life.

In order to make sense of what you’ve just read without getting myself labeled as a fraud or a complete psychopath, I’d like to present to you, my readers, a little back-story.

I was born a little over thirty years ago, to a normal suburban middle classed family. My parents loved me (and still do), I had friends, and I had pretty much a typical modern day good life. I was just like every other kid until my late teens; at that point, I’ve come to realize I don’t really feel anything towards people. The best way to describe the situation is to say that I have come to notice a complete apathy towards people. I didn’t feel “connected” to any of my friends or family members anymore, romantic relationships became more a force of habit rather than a force driven by passion. I had simply stopped caring. People came and went, it didn’t bother me, relationships ended and started anew, and while there was a brief spark of pleasure, it was quickly gone. Now, some of you might think people caught onto that and tried to help or something of the sorts, however that was not the case as I’ve kept acting as if nothing changed. Honestly, I do think I’m that great of an actor, because to this day, everyone who knows me thinks I’m the same person I was in my early teens in terms of empathy and the such.

On top of that, during my late teenager years I’ve discovered the truth behind Atheism, and since there was no God or higher purpose, life became just another process in our ever expanding universe. To me life became another stepping-stone in the course of our universe towards complete entropy. I’ve come to figuring out that death is just the natural process with which nature keeps things going smoothly by driving foreword the survival of the fittest, thus driving evolution onward and preventing overpopulation and the disruption of the ecosystem. I’ve become fascinated with death, almost in love with the idea of it. This drove me to working at jobs such as crematories and slaughterhouses, every moment around a corpse made me feel somewhat happy, not like it was a physical happiness or pleasure, but something more spiritual.

Things escalated a bit from there on; a few months ago, I’ve gotten into a drunken fight at a bar I was visiting. The incident resulted in the death of some guy, you see, I hit him a little too hard at the back of his head. sometime after we were broken apart, he complained about his head banging like crazy before getting up out of his seat to leave the bar, he just collapsed there. He died pretty much on the spot as when the medics showed up to the scene, all they could do was conclude that he had most likely died from a brain hemorrage.

When he collapsed, it sobered me immediately, the world stopped and I felt as if something had clicked inside my mind. There was a feeling of inner calm like I’ve never experienced before. Something truly amazing.

This brings me to where I am now, and this is the hard part to admit, I’ve kidnapped two men and I am about to kill one of them. One of them is a family man, a father to three children and a loving husband, he is a great man to them, to his family. Not to mention he’s a fine career man, so it’s safe to say it would be a shame if they lose him. Now the other man, he is still young, in his mid twenties, he has no family and he struggles maintaining a steady job, but nonetheless he’s a good young man, really, I mean he tries his best to make sure his terminally ill mother gets the best time she can, now that she’s running out of time. I feel like it’d be equally bad if she had lost him, especially in her condition. It would surely kill her prematurely.

Why did I kidnap them? Simple! I want to see what a so-called moral person will do when faced with the dilemma of saving just one of them while letting the other die.

I can afford to post this on the internet because I made sure nobody could figure out whom I am and where this was posted from; I also made sure that whichever of these two men comes out alive, he won’t know who I am or how he got to where he got. As of right now, neither of them knows they are not alone in their predicament. I’ve locked them up in separate locations, isolated from everything and everyone. Do not worry though, I’m not a sadist, I do provide them with food, water and a nice bed.

One of these men will surely die in 48 hours, by an apparent morpheme overdose (as I’ve said I’m not a sadist and I’d like to give whoever it is that has to die an easy death). This is where you, dear Redditors, come into play. You can save one of these men. All you have to do is decipher the following code and answer the question contained within it.

'7-0-3-9-0-9-4-3-6-0-6-4-5-0-4-7-9-4-0-9-3-2-6. 18-0-10-22-0-2-17-10-9-0-9-17-14-0-25-24-24-7-0-17-10-1-14. 4-0-22-8-0-18-10-13-14-1-0-15-3-22-9-0-25-1-22-15-3. 11-4-5-10-0-4-9-0-6-12-0-7-5-6-2?'

The numbers represent letters, figure out what they mean and answer the question hidden within them and I let one of the men go, don’t figure out the meaning what my code means, I still let one of the men go. Here’s the catch, though, the man who’s death will cause more damage will be release if you guys succeed in completing my little task.

Will you do it? Will you take the chance to be in charge of a man’s life?

I’ll make it even more interesting, you’ve a chance of saving them both, in order to do that, one of you has to tell me in the comments what should be done in order to achieve such a goal. Tell me what has to be done on your behalf. Here’s a little hint, since I’m already being generous, the answer lies within the coded question.

You’ve 48 hours to contemplate my proposal, and figure out the code. The time now is 10:30 AM Eastern, I will post again on Saturday at 10:30 AM Eastern to inform you of the results of your actions, Redditors.

May luck be on your side.

I wish us all a lovely weekend." 