The Unknown quality

Everyone has an unknown quantity, waiting for people to discover it through challenging events. In normal circumstances, those hidden qualities may not be revealed. However if a person is challenged, often times in a life or death situation, people reveal their true inner-selves, whether they are their strengths or weaknesses. For example, there is once a fictional movie called The Hundred Million Box. A person will be subject to a box with a red button on it and told that if the button is pressed, a person immediately gets a hundred million dollar. However, the down side will be that a stranger will die as soon as the button is pressed. Through the box, most human beings will tend to press the button in order to earn the prize money, despite the fact that someone is going to die from it. They naively think that it’s a stranger who is going to die, so it has nothing to do with them being murders. Those people reveal themselves as being cold hearted and selfish. However, if a person who has a strong religious background or firm moral beliefs, he or she may not want to touch the button in order to save life. These people show their strength in being heroic and selfless that they wouldn’t be swayed with money to do heinous selfish act. Although the movie becomes bizarre at the end, which reveals aliens as the experimenter and the one who presses the button gets punished and killed, it demonstrates how people show their unknown quality when deciding a tough decision, often those that determine life or death.