Just Eat the MacGuffin: Difference between revisions

* Shako, the polar bear eats a top-secret capsule with [[The Virus]] in it.

* In [[Known Space|''World of Ptavvs'']], the characters are chasing after a powerful alien [[Mind Control]] device. The Earth and Belter agents trying to get to it before its alien owner do have a mutual understanding that it must be destroyed because neither trusts the other with [[Just Think of the Potential|something that dangerous]].

* In ''[[The Moonstone]]'', the heroine inherits an enormously valuable diamond from her uncle. She soon learns that he had stolen it from an Indian cult, murdering several cultists in the process, and that three cult members are in England trying to get it back. Given that they were the stone's rightful owners, if she had just given it to them (or sold it to them for a penny to make everything legal), this could have saved everyone a lot of trouble.

** The central family of the story is very scared and suspicious of the three cultists - after all, [[Values Dissonance|right to the stone or not, they]] ''[[Values Dissonance|are]]'' [[Values Dissonance|Indian.]] Plus the diamond is stolen before they can figure out long-term goals - or even that the diamond is being hunted.