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Hobbit
Join Date: May 2007
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Hypothetical Question...
Hypothetically speaking - lets say you have an opportunity to win $1,000,000 in a contest. To win - you must choose from one of the following five options:
"Punch" option ---- You will be punched in the face, just once, by a big fat man. The punch is guaranteed not to be fatal nor to cause brain damage, but you will likely sustain a nasty injury such as a split lip, black eye or perhaps even a broken nose. After being punched - you will be given the $1,000,000! "Bomb" option ---- Nothing will happen to you. However, you will start the countdown on a huge bomb that is hidden deep inside the center of the Earth. The bomb is large enough that, when detonated, it will cause devastating earth quakes and floods all over the planet. The bomb is completely undetectable and can not be disarmed. However it will not detonate until exactly 5,000 years in the future. As soon as the countdown has started - you will be given the $1,000,000! "Insults" option ---- Twenty people will shout terrible insults and obscenities at you for one full hour. These people will not come into physical contact with you nor harm you, but they will say all sorts of horrible and upsetting things to you. After one full hour of intense verbal abuse - you will be given the $1,000,000! "Magic" option ---- Your personality and ethical convictions will be painlessly altered in some unknown way by a magic spell. The alteration will be instantaneous and will not affect your memory, cause brain damage nor result in any physical harm of any kind. After the alteration - you will be given the $1,000,000! "Nothing" option ---- None of the above. Nothing happens to you or anyone else, but you will NOT be given any money. Which option would you choose first? Second? Third? Etc...??? Please list them like so ... (with "1" listed as your first choice, "2" as your next choice, and so on...) 1 - option name 2 - option name 3 - option name 4 - option name 5 - option name |
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Kraken King
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Well, a million dollars is alot of money, so I'll be entirely honest....
I'll take 1.
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Nov 2004
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1 - Punch
2 - Insults 3 - Nothing 4 - Bomb 5 - Magic I thought the hardest choice was between the Bomb and Magic options, both would be awful.
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Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot
Join Date: Jul 2005
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1 - Punch (been punched in the face before. no biggie)
2 - Insults (been there) 3 - Nothing 4 - Magic 5 - Bomb Just knowing that somewhere in the future I'll be responsible for the deaths of millions of innocents will be the worst thing for me
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Jan 2007
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I don't want your money.
Or Survivor's. I just don't have the Lab Rat mentality. For me, this is just the outcome of other such choices. You can be a doctor (and make big bucks) if you want to live through that selection process. Or be a porn star. Or sell drugs for big bucks, with some risks. Or become a contract worker in Iraq. All issues of trade-offs. Naw. Not for me. Il faut cultiver son jardin. ![]()
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the Shrike
Join Date: Mar 2002
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I agree with you sis with a bit of a caveat: up the stakes then I'd perhaps consider. One mill just isn't worth any of the stuff listed.
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Thats a funny question. No one has chosen to be hit by magick. I find this the safest bet, as others magick has no affect on me what so ever.
So I would counteract and far succeed one million! ![]() ...The bomb is pretty cool too. I would probably do that as well. The insults option seems too easy, I am very good at blocking out things and could not hear them at all. Selective hearing is a learned art! So am I a three time millionaire then?...
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Elven Warrior
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I wouldn't get hit square in the face for one mil either. maybe two, I would think about it. One million doesnt even buy a home these days! Lol
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Elf Lady
Join Date: Nov 2006
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1 nothing
2 insult 3 punch 4 magic 5 bomb I would not allow anyone to insult me unless I really needed the money, I don't like the idea of anyone hitting me, change my personality and morals in some unknown way is not worth 1 milion dollars and having people 5000 year in the future pay for my greed is not really an option. I could use the money at the moment though, but I guess I'll just have to work more hours. ![]()
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Were I given these options in real life, I would either expect there to be some damning fine print of which I'm unaware, or part of some unsavoury social experiment. In either case, I don't think I'd want to be involved.
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This might sound cynical but I do actually doubt that so many of you would reject getting a million dollars by being insulted for an hour or even punched once in the face. Maybe it's hard to fathom how big a number a million is. As for the insult option, you'd be earning $278 every second for an hour.
I know money is not the most important thing in the world but would you guys really turn that down? How well do you know yourselves?
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The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator
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Answering a hypothetical question is of course different from actually being in the situation. But if someone came to me on the street and said:" Hey, want to make a million, all you have to do is be insulted for an entire hour," I'd still either don't believe them or expect there to be more to it.
People just don't give you that kind of money for something like that. Unless they're from reality shows or something, in which case I very likely decline also.
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Advocatus Diaboli
Join Date: Dec 2001
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Insults ~ I'm incapable of taking offense at just words, so it'd be an easy one million.
Punch would be no big deal either. I'd skip the other ones. And being a lab rat aint so bad if you're getting paid for it. ![]()
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Spammer of the Happy Thread
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The insults, nothing else. Or perhaps a punch or two.. But the insults would be no problem, especially if the people are strangers.
Bring it on!
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Elf Lord
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Some people worry about their carbon footprint. I worry about my ethical footprint. As much as possible, I try not to support things that make the world a nastier place. So, I'm sure. ![]()
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Elf Lord
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Receiving a punch would be an interesting educational experience. If I were to really get paid well after, I might go for that one.
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Sis/Cousin/Aunt, I take it you're not a big fan of boxing or American Idol
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Elf Lady
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I was thinking of this with realityshows in the back of my mind. I am not going to make a fool out of myself or allow someone else to do it. Not even for a million dollars. At the current exchange rate it is better to win a million euros anyway.
![]() But serious, I don't mind games like weekend millionairs where you actually get to be intelligent to get the money. But those realityshows...? Not a chance! ![]()
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