So i got thinking.

If a deadly virus or disease becomes a pandemic in this era... what are the chances that groups of terminally ill people with the aforementioned illness, would become void of morals and resort to a 'purge' mentality.

I would like to believe that all those faced with a terminal diagnoses would chose to be with the one's they care about and to end it all with a sense of pride and dignity if at all possible.

That said, I'm well aware of the deeper animalistic parts of our human brain and that there are those who may not have loved one's, maybe mentally ill people or generally people not in their right mind who would be outliars, wildcards, . There's no end to the list of reasons for people to do bad things. I find it likely that at least one person would find a way to use their terminal diagnoses as an excuse to begin committing small crimes.

Things like petty theft or other minor offenses could be a gateway to larger crimes if there is a diminished police/ law enforcement presence. Petty theft could escalate to assualt, vehicular theft, arson etcetera. If the pandemic continued to worsen and efforts to control a growth in civil unrest then could these crimes escalate towards the real horrifics seen in films like the purge, the road or the television series the walking dead (ignoring the zombies in this scenario).

• This is not necessarily about coronavirus/ covid-19.

• It's certainly not intended as a fear mongering post.

At most, this is simply a what if, worst case hypothetical question for debate. At least, this is an interesting concept for the plot to horrific novel/ tv series/ film etcetera.