If you had a towel in your hand, and were headed to the shower room with voices in your head telling you to hang, what would stop you?

This morning I took an "ethics quiz" for University of Phoenix, which reminded me of SAT and the military. Who are you, and what will you do if you find yourself in a fire-fight?

I promised "DAD" seven months (that I would not hurt myself nor committed suicide). DAD, of course, turned out not to be real. The threat of death in a sense turned out not to be real.

I thought about turning it into a sci-fi story. What if the government could hack into your brains, what if this technology was new, and they--in the spirit of Skinner--killed people this way if only to know how? The goal was to do it faster and better than anyone. Most people state the obvious if you can do that, you can induce a seizure, and kill someone within seconds, within minutes without the fun of driving them to attempt or commit suicide.

What if it was more of a military experiment on stealing the one thing we never thought we could--free will? And you can't get that by inducing a seizure. It could be a story about misuse of military technology being tested on ordinary private citizens, every paranoid person's worst nightmare.

It would be easy to write, although I wonder if it would be somewhat dangerous at this point (as if giving into my delusions again). The idea of free will, delusions, auditory hallucinations, etc is interesting to play with.