bouncymischa
Synthetic Genie
That's not my issue; I can appreciate bad events, but what I don't get is presenting what seems like a choice when there in fact is none. It's not a huge concern, but when other events offer different outcomes based on the chosen response it seems odd that this wouldn't do the same.
Well, once you get to the Renaissance, I believe you do get different outcomes. (Or, at least, better ones.)
If the issue is that you're being offered a false choice -- all of the outcomes are the same -- then, well, I'm not sure what to say. Sukritact is the one that made the mod, so I can't really say why he chose to make it that way, but I suspect it was mostly as a joke. From what I recall, the event itself is in reference to a similar random event in Civ IV, although I believe that one was universally bad (unlike the current event, which gets better after the Renaissance). So it's a somewhat humorous reference to a similarly bad event in another game.
In the end, I suspect its design is mostly done tongue-in-cheek, and should not be taken particularly seriously.