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Who wants to play "Would you do it?"?

Asked by PuffUvSmoke (435points) August 12th, 2015

The game is easy enough to play.
Jelly No.1-if the only way to save the world was to kiss Justin Bieber would you do it?
Jelly No.2-ew no way (or, totally yes I would)
If you could read minds but have to sacrifice your knowledge would you do it?

So…... would you?

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talljasperman's avatar

If it was temporary yes. If the only way to get lurve was to answer this question, would you?

Strauss's avatar

Well, only if I wanted to answer it for its own sake. The lurve would be a nice bonus.

If you had to kiss a cow full on the lips in order to save the life of your best friend or loved one, would you do it?

Dutchess_III's avatar

Of course.

If you had to kiss a cow full on the anus to save the life of your best friend or loved one, would you do it?

Coloma's avatar

Haha…nice @Dutchess_III yes, I would, gagging the whole time.

If you had to kill and then eat a raw chicken would you do it to save your house from being burned down?

Dutchess_III's avatar

Well, yeah. I mean, there isn’t anything in my digestive tract that has evolved to not allow me to do it. I’d just have to overcome the mental.

There are so many utterly horrible scenarios we would do if it involved saving one of our kids or something…

If you had to eat worms by the handful if it meant you didn’t have to pay the IRS that $10,000 you owe them, would you do it?

talljasperman's avatar

Yes. If they are fried or at least clean.
If you had too choose one of your kids or spouse to accompany you to a one way trip to Mars who would you take?

Dutchess_III's avatar

No..that’s not how it works. You have to say “If you had to do ____ to save ___, would you do it?”

And the worms are not fried or cleaned. You just have to pick them up off the ground (or out of the Styrofoam bait box you bought at the bait shop) and eat them. Would you do it if it’s meant you didn’t have to pay the IRS that $10,000?

talljasperman's avatar

How many worms? Under 10 then yes one for each thousand dollars owed. Would you work 100 hours a week in a night shift at a convenience store for 10 years alone to pay for university would you.

Mimishu1995's avatar

Maybe, if I couldn’t find any better thing to do.
If you have to wear a straitjacket and dance around the streets for 72 hours to save a random dog on the street would you do it?

Coloma's avatar

Haha…sure, but I might have to stop dancing and sleep for awhile at some point.

Given the choice of either being sent to the bottom of the sea in a tiny submarine or launched into space in a tiny rocket for 6 months to study isolations effects on your fellow humans would you do it, and if so, which would it be?

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

I would go into space if I can take the bible and plenty of DVDs based on the gospels.

Would you take a mail order bride from the Ukraine if you never had pay taxes for the next 10 years because you took her as your wife, would you?

rojo's avatar

Um, sure. Can amend the laws for polygamy first? Oh, and let me check with my first wife before I fully commit.
If you could live to be 200 years old but would continue to age would you do it?

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

I would start working out and taking steroids to not become a feeble mess.

If you could cure all cancer but you had to poison three kids under 5 years old to get the cure, would you?

Mimishu1995's avatar

No. I’d let other more intelligent people think of a more effective way.
If you had to find out a good friend’s secret in order to save them or at least drag them out of their mess would you do it?

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

No, if the mess is not unto death, then they are entitled to their secret, and they will have to work out the mess as best they can. It might serve as a lesson next time around.

If you found out your very close best friend had a dark ugly secret sever decades back in their history would you expose it and drop them from your friends list?

Coloma's avatar

Short of murder, no.

If you had to kill someone, had to, and your choice of weapons were a sword, a club or a canon what would you choose and could you do it?

majorrich's avatar

A Canon of course. More Bugs Bunny like. I’m sure I could do it.

If you had to slaughter a family pet because it was the only thing available to eat and serve to your children, would you do it?

Coloma's avatar

Omg…my 17 yr. old goose would be the likely candidate over the cats, but, no, I couldn’t/wouldn’t do it.
He is my “dog” and besides, he’s a tough old bird now anyway. lol
We’d eat grass and twigs first because that’s what we’d still be eating after the one pet meal.

If you were offered thousands of acres of farm land, a mansion and abundant wealth forever but you had to keep slaves to work your property would you do it?

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

No, if I had to do it i would, because the slaves would never feel the whip, have an hour lunch every work day and have good food. They will have nice A/C barracks with nice soft beds, weekends off, and when i died, they will be willed their freedom, the land, the mammon, and the mansion; I might have had to take them as slaves, but they would be treated like family, only if I had to, otherwise I pass on it all.

If you seen a teen girl run down an old man and shoot him dead and upon seeing you she says he was her stepdad and was sexing her up, but if you promise never tell a soul you seen who shot him she’ll let you live, would you make the promise?

Coloma's avatar

Absolutely! Good riddance pervy step dad.

If you found a bag full of drug money, hundreds of thousands of dollars, would you turn it into the police for potential fingerprint and DNA testing to potentially catch the drug dealers or would you keep it figuring it was illegally gotten to begin with?

PuffUvSmoke's avatar

If I were to give it to the police they might give a reward, so yes

If somone wanted to switch houses with you because they had a ghost, would you do it?

Coloma's avatar

No. I like where I live and wouldn’t want to anger the ghost by moving into its home. haha

If you had to sacrifice a body part to save a loved ones life which would it be. Your eyes, your ears, or your nose? Would you do it?

josie's avatar

No.
I would figure out another way to save the world.
Would you pay a physician $1000 a year for unlimited free office visits, or shop on the Obama care exchanges?

Mimishu1995's avatar

Pay my physcian. Because I don’t live in the US.
If you have to kill a good friend because they were the threat of another good friend’s life would you do it?

DrasticDreamer's avatar

No, I would call the police. Unless the exact moment was life or death and I had to protect my friend from being killed by the other one right then.

If the only way to get your dream degree was to cheat your way through school, and never be exposed, would you do it?

talljasperman's avatar

Yes.
Would you work unpaid overtime just to get some quick cash or would you quit and starve having no savings.

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

I would quit, once you start getting used by your bosses, you never know where it will stop. I will just channel my inner immigrant and create opportunities to make money.

If you don’t believe in ghost but believe you heard audibly some one yell, “Leave this place, this has been my home for 300 years and you CAN’T have it”, would you believe it was a ghost and leave, or ignore it as your wild imagination?

Dutchess_III's avatar

I would search for a logical explanation. If I didn’t find one I would assume it was my imagination.

If you had to kill your pet to save your kid, would you do it?

talljasperman's avatar

Yes
If you had mild superpowers and needed help would you expose your secret and tell a doctor. Or suffer in silence?

majorrich's avatar

It would depend on the superpower. Say, for example, I could walk through walls, I probably would not because it wasn’t relevant. but if my superpower involved my genitalia and I had problems there I probably would.
If you were short on cash in a foreign country to get home and the only way to make money was pole dancing in an adult bar. You weigh 300+ but they are willing to let you do it. would you?

Coloma's avatar

Haha…I’d do it and I don’t weigh 300 lbs. but, I am also an older chick now so I’d have to dance at a nursing home to get any real applause. At 55 I’d still look pretty hot to a bunch of 90 year old geezers. lol

Would you jump into a frozen lake to save a stray dog, would you ?

Dutchess_III's avatar

No. I would only jump into a frozen lake in a (probably) futile attempt to save one of my kids.

If you stood to receive one million dollars if you ate 5000 calories a day for one year, would you do it?

Coloma's avatar

Joyfully, then I would spend about 5k on weight watchers meetings. lol

If you could live forever by drinking a quart of human urine a day would you?

Mimishu1995's avatar

Yes. People have been drinking urine for ages.
If you accidentally discovered that cow’s poop seemed to be curing you from an incurable disease would you eat it? (Apparently there is a story about this but I can’t find the link.)

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Is the disease on to death? Certainly not. If the disease would cause crippling pain, it might be a thought. If it would not lead to death, and there was no unbearable discomfort nope.

If you found nothing to do with your life, would you do something?

Coloma's avatar

Nope, I could happily be retired just puttering around in the garden with my pets and drinking wine and sitting in the hot tub.

Would you run naked across the country to get in the guinness book of world records as the longest sustained streaker in hisotry? lol

Dutchess_III's avatar

Hell no!

If you had to stay in bed for one year, so you wouldn’t lose your house, would you do it?

Coloma's avatar

Do I get to have a bedmate too? Sure, at least there would be some form of sexercise to keep from totally atrophying.

If you were starving would you go over Niagra Falls in a barrel to for a plate of pancakes? Would you.

talljasperman's avatar

No.

Would you sleep with Hillary Clinton to have Donald Trump quit the presidential race?

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

No, I am not married to her, to hell what it does or doesn’t do for Trump, he is a non-factor.

If riding a mule as a commute vehicle would provided homes for 225,000 foster kids who will age-out and become homeless maybe would you?

talljasperman's avatar

No. I could not care less.
Would you take university math courses if it was the only way to become a millionaire.

fluthernutter's avatar

I’ve already taken university math courses. Still waiting for my million though.

Would you give up your talent thereafter if you could create that one masterpiece?

talljasperman's avatar

I did and will again.
If you wrote many famous tv story lines unpaid, would you keep your artwork a secret that you made so that you can live a normal life? Or insist that you get paid and recognized?

Mimishu1995's avatar

I’d have no problem with being in the dark, but no money? Gaw! I need my meal too!
If you had a choice between being a forever slave and being a forever horse, what would you choose?

Coloma's avatar

Horse, as long as I had a good master. lol
I would be one of our horses here, roomy stalls, turnout paddocks, big arena and pastures to romp in, fed quality hay 2x a day and tasty supplements and apple-n-oat cookies and carrots. I’d have winter jacket and summer sheet and fly mask and only have to work/be ridden like twice a week. It’s a good horse life here.

If you could win a million dollars by catching & handling a dangerous animal which animal would you choose? A rattlesnake, an alligator or a giant snapping turtle? Would you do it?

Dutchess_III's avatar

(My cousin won $90 million. One million sounds so paltry!) But I would catch a rattle snake for it.

If you could win 90 million dollars, but it meant that you would die one year from that date, would you do it?

Strauss's avatar

Sure. I’d take the 90 million, make sure my loved ones are well taken care of, spend the rest of that year being philanthropic, (and try and meet a few jellies in the process) and spend my last few days with those whose company I enjoy the most, my close loved ones.

If you could win 100 million dollars, but had to remain celibate for the rest of your life, would you do it?

majorrich's avatar

No worries. Too old for secks anyway
If you could start over at 25 again, would you?

Mimishu1995's avatar

You want me to fast-forward to 25? Thanks!
If you could win 200 minilon dollars, but had to remain in a baby’s body forever, would you do it?

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

No.

If you could assure the universe of not having God but your flesh would slowly turn to a leathery lizard-like hide over the next 7 years, would you?

Dutchess_III's avatar

Didn’t quit understand the Q, @Hypocrisy_Central. Are you asking that if I could succeed in convincing everyone sentient being in the universe that there is no god, but my flesh would turn leathery, would I do it?

If that was the question, then No. I wouldn’t do it even if it meant I’d lose an eyelash. It’s not my place to convince people that there is no god. I can argue it with them, if they want, but I have no desire to “convert” anyone.

If you could convince every sentient being in the universe that God exists, and the lack of evidence is not a problem, but your skin would begin dying off in places, becoming painfully and hideously deformed until it kills you, slowly and painfully, would you do it?

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Yes, if it saves even one soul from damnation, sure, hopefully the condition would take me quick and I will await them in Paradise.

If the cure for cervical cancer cancer lay in the sperm of a wrinkled old hideous looking man and the only way to get it hand keep its effectiveness, would be through sexual contact, would you perform fellatio on him to capture his spunk in a petri dish?

ibstubro's avatar

To cure cervical cancer? Really? Swallow or spit, I think saving lives trumps distaste.

If the only way to save the world was to have g.W. Bush run the world for the next 100 years, would you do it?

Mimishu1995's avatar

Sure. After all I don’t live in the US.
If the Earth was on the verge of destruction, and you had to choose between dying and joining a very experimental evacuation to the space, what would you choose?

Coloma's avatar

I;d go for the experiment, but only if I could bring my pets too. Zero gravity cats, that would be fun. lol

If you found a genie in a bottle that would grant you 3 wishes but in exchange you had to sacrifice an anonymous person somewhere on earth would you do it?

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

No, a genie in a bottle that wants to sacrifice people in exchange for an increase sounds too much like a demon and i won’t be duped by him.

If you could have the most mind-blowing, toe-curling orgasms every time you boinked but it would take ⅓0th of your lung capacity away for 5 years, would you avoid it (boinking)?

wsxwh111's avatar

No.. I’d love to have that lol..
Actually I began to believe that the quality of sex is mostly decided by how much you love the person.. If that’s true and the mind-blowing orgasm means I get a great partner, then I can even give up 5 years of my life..err
If you can be the person with most sanity and wisdom on this planet, and you have to give up happiness to be that, would you do it?

Mimishu1995's avatar

No. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
If your loved one died suddenly in the hospital would you agree to let them undergo autopsy to determine the real cause of death or just bring them home to bury?

Dutchess_III's avatar

Um…I don’t think any one in America brings the bodies home anymore. As for an autopsy, that would depend on the reason they died. I wish mom had had an autopsy, because I seriously question whether she ever had Alzheimer, or was just kind of wacky, like she’d been all her life.
This wasn’t really a hard choice to make.

If you had to give up all internets for a year to lose 100 pounds, would you do it?

fluthernutter's avatar

100 pounds?! Unless you’re seriously obese, I don’t think most people could afford to lose that much and still be healthy alive.

Would you give up all of your belongings (besides the most basic needs), if it would erase your debt?

Mimishu1995's avatar

@Dutchess_III in Vietnam people still have an option to bring the bodies home. And some people find it hard to choose between autopsy and proper burial because they fear that their loved ones “have to endure the pain once more”. It’s a really difficult choice here, at least to some.
I would. It could be a way to punish myself for getting the debt in the first place.
If you could choose between winning a lottery and a game in the casino what would you choose?

Dutchess_III's avatar

(Wfluthernutter…I was thinking of seriously obese people, but I just didn’t say it. My bad.)

@fluthernutter..if I gave up even my basic needs I guess I wouldn’t be alive much longer to worry about debt, so no. Really, all I have to do to get out of debt is sell the house, the cars and the RV. And my husband.

@Mimishu1995, it would depend on which prize was higher.

So if a relative you didn’t really know was diagnosed with cancer and only had 2 years to live, and he or she had a spouse and small children, and you were single, no kids, would you take the cancer from him or her if you could?

Coloma's avatar

No, but I’d take the kids for them. haha

If you had to work scooping cat litter boxes 10 hours a day but could earn 150k a year, would you?

PuffUvSmoke's avatar

Yes especially if I am the one who owns the cats.

If there was a pet you needed to survive, but you had to pay 30 million dollars for the pet, would you do it?

Dutchess_III's avatar

I don’t have 30 million dollars, so no. And I don’t think I’d be comfortable hitting my cousin up for it, either. Actually, I couldn’t do more than a couple of thousand, and that would take years to pay.

If there was an old, old dog you had that you truly loved, and he was 20 years old, about 5 years longer than the average life span of that kind of dog, and he got sick and it cost you $5000 to fix him, even though he probably wasn’t going to live another year, would you do it?

Strauss's avatar

@Dutchess_III You’re tearing me up. My dog is 14 years old, and I’m dreading the day I might have to make such a decision for her. If knew she wasn’t going to be here a year from now, with or without the procedure, why pay for it? I would make sure she is not in pain and enjoy her for the rest of her time.

If you were asked to take a friends pet to be euthanized, would you do it?

Dutchess_III's avatar

Sure I’d take a friend’s pet to be euthanized. Why not?

If went to to the casinos and you knew you would win a million dollars that night (but you’re the only one who knows ,and it’s just a hunch that turns out to be right,) but your husband / wife said they’d leave you if you went, and wouldn’t be home when you got home, and they were never coming back even if you won a million dollars would you go anyway?

Dutchess_III's avatar

By the way, OP, this is NOT an easy game to play. It’s harder than hell to come up with wild scenarios that don’t involve your children, which you would do anything for.

Mimishu1995's avatar

No. I can think of more ways to make money and keep my someone.
Woukd you be a half-brain in a no-brain world, or be intelligent in a genius world?

wsxwh111's avatar

That sounds a little like what it feels like about me in China and me with Americans.
I had wanted the first, then the second, now I think it doesn’t matter. It’s all about find yourself and your own spot and fit in.
Would you eat the kind of food that you love the most right now for a week, every meal, or the food you sightly dislike but different kinds for every meal?

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Take what i loved and eat it every day, never met a lasagna I didn’t like until spinach and tofu lasagna, pasta blasphemy…..

If letting a homeless man sleep in your bed for 2 weeks would gain 5 impoverished schools a complete computer lab, would you do it?

Strauss's avatar

@Hypocrisy_Central pasta blasphemy Does this mean one of my favorite fundamentalists is becoming (gasp!) Pastafarian! (LOL!)

Back to the thread—I would do it, but only if my wife would agree!

If you owned a vacation resort, and could control the weather in your area, resulting in a windfall for you, but having disastrous results elsewhere in the world, would you do it?

majorrich's avatar

Yes. Yes I would. But I wouldn’t do it all the time.

If you were an independent pastor licensed to perform marriages, and very few pastors in your area are willing to perform same sex marriages, Would you do it for the profit even if it was against your personal ethic?

Dutchess_III's avatar

(@Mimishu1995….you can’t put your own real world parameters around the challenge. You have to go with what they give you. In the challenge I gave, your only option was to go gambling, knowing that you would win a million dollars, or not gamble and save your marriage.
For example, I’m taking @majorrich challenge which requires me to be a homophobic pastor. I am neither, but I have to answer as though I was. See?)

Well…it would depend on whether or not my family was literally starving to death and God didn’t seem to be answering my prayers.
So, the answer is, if I was financially comfortable enough to take the snooty high ground, I’d refuse, and post the story on Facebook for extra brownie points with God and the conservatives.
If my family was starving, I’d do it, then pray for forgiveness.

If you were a newspaper reporter and you stumbled on a story that would take Congress down because of corruption, and had an inside scoop on how this corrupt congress was negatively affecting the country, and Congress offered you a hundred million not to write it, what would you do?

Strauss's avatar

I’d be ethically torn between writing it anyway, and giving up the money, and not writing it, and using the money to otherwise expose the corruption. I might be able to do more $100,000,000 than I could with just one article. Other factors would include determining whether or not I could put some or most of that money to use for philanthropic purposes that might have a similar outcome.

If: you knew a man who had fathered a child; and you knew the child was adult, and that she did not know who her birth father is; and the man wanted you to find out (confidentially) if a reunion would be beneficial for the child or not, would you do it

talljasperman's avatar

Yes but in a limited way like on the telephone.
Would you go into the Star Treks agony booth for a while to have your student loans paid for? Also how long would you go in the agony booth per $5,000.

fluthernutter's avatar

What the heck is a Star Trek agony booth?

talljasperman's avatar

@fluthernutter in the opposite dimensions in The Star Trek universe where good is bad and bad is good. There is an agony booth where punishment is time in a tube that causes agony. Hence Star Trek agony booth.

Strauss's avatar

I have no student loan, so no

If: you were in a committed relationship; you were offered $100000000 (100 million US) for an one-nighter of pleasure; confidentiality guaranteed; plausible excuse for money; you must never tell your S.O…would you do it?

Mimishu1995's avatar

@Dutchess_III meant in my response that I would quit to save my SO, because I’d rather keep my SO and wait for other chance to get money instead of gambling. It meant I would choose to walk away. I based my answer on your question entirely.

No. I don’t want to be a cheater.
If there was a magical man (say a genie) giving you infinite number of wish, but in turn everytime you wish a random person would get the wish with double effect, would you accept it?

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Never, it would be a demon in disguise and i am not one to be fooled by him; I would not take anything from him if it were to save my life.

If you were promised a pill that was guaranteed to add 45 years of quality life (health wise) to you before you died but you had dip cadavers in wax for an exhibit for 8 years, would you?

majorrich's avatar

Sure. I would call them Candle-abers.

Would you all still eat a bug for a dollar?

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Sure, love roasted grasshoppers. I remember eating chocolate covered ants in the third grade.

Would you get a tongue piercing that had a grasshopper on the end of it.

Coloma's avatar

Haha…maybe, I like unusual things.

If you had the opportunity to earn a full retirement by being locked in a room for a month with 5,000 mosquitos or 5,000 leeches, which would you choose and would you do it?

talljasperman's avatar

No. I hated being outside in camp.
Would you stop drinking pop and juice and coffee and tea, if stopping could extend your life by 1 year? Everything except water and 2% milk.

wsxwh111's avatar

Of course not… 10 years maybe
Would you sacrifice one person’s life if that could give 100 million people great happy life till the end of their lives?

talljasperman's avatar

No.
Would you read a book everyday for your whole life in order to become a doctor MD. For five years.

Mimishu1995's avatar

Sure, why not? Reading is my hobby anyway.
If you could be a superhero and your job would be to do nothing but answering to everyone’s calling for help even the most ridiculous one would you do it?

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

No, that would be disastrous to the soul, I would eventually abuse that sort of power.

Would you go on a cruise with a shared cabin with a pedophile if he/she would write a check large enough to pay the medical care of 100,000 chronically ill children all over the world?

PuffUvSmoke's avatar

Sure I am not a kid

If you were hanging on the edge of a cliff with a kid dangling off each of your arms both about to fall and you had to drop the one that behaves like a demon (your son) to save the one that saved your life (your nephew) Would You Do It?

ibstubro's avatar

Pffft. In a heartbeat. I’d drop the brat.
I hope I’m not being made a monkey’s uncle!

You’ve discovered a sure-fire way to reverse global warming!
Unfortunately, once you start the process, there’s only a 50/50 chance you can stop it and avoid another ice age.
Would you do it?

Coloma's avatar

Sure, I’m a risk taker.

If you found a satchel of money in a seedy part of town and knew it was, most likely, illegal drug money, would you keep it? Would you?

Strauss's avatar

I’d keep, but I’d put it to good use. Unless I was in dire need of the money, I would use it for random acts of kindness.

And yes, I would be the recipient of at least one of those actions!

Dutchess_III's avatar

So…you need to double dog dare me now @Yetanotheruser….

Strauss's avatar

If you were offered the ability to fly in exchange for the ability to walk would you do it?

Coloma's avatar

In the short term no, but should I live to be a decrepit ancient one, yes. haha

If you had no other means of shelter would you kill and gut a horse or other large animal to survive a brutal blizzard in it’s body cavity? Would you?

Dutchess_III's avatar

Yes. Absolutely yes. (I read Sacajawea too. That was brutal.)

Dang it. I can’t think of anything!

You have been given the ability to end world hunger, and no more children will starve to death, but you can’t fix the clean water problems, or do anything about diseases. However, ending world hunger means a huge explosion in the population of places that can’t handle it, would you use that ability?

Coloma's avatar

If we could provide mass birth control yes, otherwise no, those places would just end up back at square one, starving because of too many humans being born.

If you could eat whatever you wanted with no weight or health issues in exchange for aging another 10 years right now, would you?

PuffUvSmoke's avatar

No. I really would like to finish high school. While some feel it as a pain, its my second home. And I also have very good relationships with teachers.

If you could star in any movie you wanted to and get payed good money, but the movies get bad ratings no matter what it is, would you do it?

Dutchess_III's avatar

@Coloma You can’t do that! You can’t put but / if parameters around the challenge. You have to respond to it as it. I’m telling Auggie!

@PuffUvSmoke Um, I think @Coloma was suggesting that you take 10 years off the end of your life.
Well, your question wasn’t too difficult. As long as I got paid I wouldn’t care what the ratings were. Why would I?

So, let’s try it again! You have been given the ability to end world hunger, and no more children will starve to death, but you can’t fix the clean water problems, or do anything about diseases. However, ending world hunger means a huge explosion in the population of places that can’t handle it, would you use that ability? Addendum…you can end starvation no matter how many people there are.

Coloma's avatar

@Dutchess_III lol
No, actually I meant aging another 10 years, as I said ” right now.”

Okay…do-over….then yes, if all people will benefit even if the population explodes.

Okay @Dutchess_III You go next again, I can’t conjure up anything right now.

Dutchess_III's avatar

But that’s the tricky part…some won’t benefit. That’s why these questions are supposed to be hard. It’s like, out of two moral rights, which is the rightest? Or wrongest. They’re also hard to think up.

OK, here’s an “easy one,” at least it’s easy to think up: Two people are stranded on a desert island. One is a 60 year old, the other is a 10 year old. Which do you save and which do you leave to die, and why?

Here2_4's avatar

No. I can’t. I stay, and let both of them go. I could never look someone in the eye, and tell them I chose them to not survive.

You are forced to eat buttered toast and nothing else for the rest of your life. You have the opportunity to eat one meal, portion size and menu all your choice, but first you must watch someone be tortured for an hour. Toast, or choice for dinner?

Dutchess_III's avatar

You can’t do that @Here2_4. You can’t change the rules of the game. You can’t put a 3rd option on it.

Toast. No problem. Although, the lack of vitamins would make my life considerably shorter, me thinks.

Your house is on fire. You have to choose between your beloved dog and your kid. Which do you choose?

Coloma's avatar

I don’t have a dog and the kid has left home, so..I’ll save my csts. lol
Okay…the kid. haha

You have a chance to win a half a million dollars but in order to do you must swallow 500 Earwigs. Would you do it?

ibstubro's avatar

Sure! You didn’t specify, so I’ll kill the earwigs, cast them in Jello, and swallow them in chunks.

If the only way to stop a Trump presidency was to live homeless for a year, would you do it?

Dutchess_III's avatar

Yes.

If the only way to make your rent, and keep a roof over your kid’s head, was to sleep with your landlord, would you do it?

Here2_4's avatar

Yes. My last landlord was an old man, so no big chore there, ha! Well, I had a landlord who was a woman once, and creepy besides. Ick.
You are out hunting with a very dear friend. He/she admits they have secretly abused your children, and beg forgiveness.
Hunting accident, or police?

Coloma's avatar

Depends, a minor spanking behind my back, okay, sexual abuse, might have to go with shoot, shovel and shut up. lol
At the very least, tie them to a tree for a few days before I cll the police to arrest them.
Maybe tie them to a tree for a few days before I shoot them, gee, the possibilities are endless aren’t they. haha

You are on a plane over the ocean that is in distress and crashing is imminent. You have access to a parachute. Do you go down with the plane or do you eject into the Ocean thousands of miles from land in shark infested waters. What would you do?

Dutchess_III's avatar

See, I wanna say I’d give my chute to someone else, someone younger, but I can’t cause I can’t change the parameters!

I think I’d take my chances with the chute, and try to land as close to the plane as I could.

Some one will give you $50,000 today, or $550,000 one year from now, but during that year you have to live as a homeless person or you don’t get any of the money. What would you choose?

ibstubro's avatar

Homeless. I don’t think it would be a huge problem for me, for just a year. If I can find a younger person to share the journey, so much the better. $1,1000,000 rocks!

You can gain the power to cure mental illness by laying on of hands!
The catch? You will suffer from that illness for one month and you have to cure 100 people before you can pass the power on.
Would you accept the power?

Coloma's avatar

Depends. Not knowing the extent of my mental illness I could cause a lot of damage or commit suicide or even become a serial killer and then, not only would I have killed who knows how many others I would be put on death row when I became sane again for my crimes. A moderate, non-suicidal depression yes, a raging psychopath, no.

@Dutchess_III So you prefer a slow, cold, terrifying death by dehydration, exhaustion, starvation, drowning or shark attack, adrift in shark infested waters over a quick death by crashing?

You have 5 minutes to determine the fate of the planet. Your choice of mass destruction are nuclear bomb or bio-warfare. Both will end life as we know it. Which would you choose?

ibstubro's avatar

“Depends” is an adult diaper, not a valid response! ~

Coloma's avatar

Okay..no then, too risky.

Dutchess_III's avatar

No guarantee the crash would kill you, @Coloma. You might find yourself in the same position only really badly hurt and suffering from that on top of everything else.

Cheating here: You have 5 minutes to determine the fate of the planet. Your choice of mass destruction are nuclear bomb or bio-warfare. Both will end life as we know it. Which would you choose? You sure are morbid, woman!

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Bio-warfare, hopefully some will survive long enough to accept the Creator and enter the Spiritual Ark before death takes them.

You have the chance to lie to feed a starving family, but to tell the lie opens you up to perjury, do you do it anyway?

Here2_4's avatar

Sure.
You are driving a dark, lonely road late at night. Through the conflux of trees off to your right you see strange light activity. You take a side road to find out what is going on. You find aliens. The aliens find you. You are taken prisoner and brought before their authority individual. You promise to never speak a word of having seen them if they will only let you go.
You keep that secret, or not? Why?

Dutchess_III's avatar

Yes, I would keep that promise. I’d post it all hell and gone over the internet, but I would never speak a word ‘cuz I keep my promises. See.
Alright, to give an honest answer, I would make the promise but I would not keep it. Why should I?

Two people are stranded on a desert island. One is a 60 year old, the other is a 10 year old. Which do you save and which do you leave to die, and why? Remember you can’t make up a 3rd option.

ibstubro's avatar

I’ll let the 60 yo make the call.
If she was going to reveal the cure for cancer next week, she might choose to go.
If he had a 10 yo he loved dearly, he might choose to stay.
The obvious third option – leave them both – seems pointless unless they were plague carriers.

You can release someone from prison for a defined period of time, but only by taking their place. Would you release someone? If so, who and for how long?

Here2_4's avatar

This guy For however long it takes to get paid a couple of million.

You can have a million dollars, but to get it, you have to be sent back in time to relive your teen years. The $million will be waiting in a trust funsd when you turn twenty. Would you do it?

Coloma's avatar

Oh lord…I dunno, I guess so, groan. lol

To win a 6 month ‘round the world cruise you must eat a plate of horse shit every day for a month would you do it?

Here2_4's avatar

Ew, no, if I won a cruise I’d bring my own food. LOL
You can have an IQ in the top 2%, but you have to give up all memory of family members. Would you do it?

ibstubro's avatar

Pfft. I don’t desire smart, I desire wealth.
Top 2% of what??

You can choose to be the smartest person that ever lived, but the genius/insane odds are 50/50.
Would you do it?

Coloma's avatar

Nah, I’m good where I’m at, enough brains to get by and no insanity. haha

You could live in a magnificent rain forest in deluxe accomodations, rent/mortgage free for life but, you can only feed with a troop of Chimpanzees every day, feasting on fruit, termites and leaves. Would you do it?

Dutchess_III's avatar

Well, from a practical point of view I’d have to day no, because I’d need access to doctors and healthcare. :(

If you could live anywhere in the world that you wanted to, for free, all amenities for free, boats, yachts, everything you could want, all free, but you would have to live on potatoes, cheese and milk for the rest of your life, would you do it? Oh, and beer. Or wine. Or whatever you want. You can have that too.

Coloma's avatar

No, no way. I need fruits and veggies and sugar to be happy.

@Dutchess, well, you could chew coca leaves and visit the resident with doctor. lol

For a full and immediate retirement would you live in Antarctica for 6 months in a windowless building, subsisting only on dehydrated foods with no TV, radio, or internet, total isolation. Would you do it?

Here2_4's avatar

Is there water to re-hydrate? Is this retirement complete with all the comforts? I assume there is heat.

Coloma's avatar

—@Here2_4 Yes and yes.

Here2_4's avatar

Yes, I would do it.
If the child of a friend were kidnapped, and trafficked to a foreign country, would you sneak in to rescue because the family begged you?

ibstubro's avatar

I’m guessing I’m competent for this mission, since the family asked me? The question is, would I accept the risk? Hell yes.

If you could steal $50,000,000 from a bank, risk free, on halvsies, would you do it?

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