option 2, but work really really REALLY hard on figuring out a way out of this mess....wait. Can we pick which 10%?
Did it just get cold in here?
Yeah you know immediately that that would happen.oh yeah. I mean, in a perfect world you could weed out the weak and the dumb and potentially advance your society passed the one that keeps kicking your ass.....but that's not how it would play out. (and even that is a bit funked up, hence the "did it just get cold in here?" joke).....I don't know...it's dark as hell to think about, but if you're going to lose 10% no matter what....a society probably should at least pick the old if not the ugly and dumb instead of totally random.
"grandpa Corky survived the purge, but the pre-med star of the Uni basketball team is dead? That's not good."
"yeah, and Beet's Angel of Death passed over both McDonald's and Wal Mart entirely but got the Mayor's newborn and the town Rabbi."
"worst of all, Tom Hanks is gone, but we seem to have more Kardashians than ever!"