Would You??

totally the trip around the world with some extra time in Ireland.

if you had the opportunity, would you go back in your life to one particular point and do something differently than what you have already done? (generic confession allowed)

No. I believe that every moment I've lived; the good, the bad, the happy and sad, is an important lesson learned which will help me face what is yet to come. Besides, if I do go back in time and change one point in my life, how do I know that I would like the outcome of that action? I might end up having to face a much worse situation...

Would you give up your life to save a stranger?

No I would not.

Would you agree to be inprisoned for one year if at the end of it you would be givin a million dollars?

I lean towards not, freedom's huge---but there's a slight possibility depending on if I got to chose the time in my life, and the type of prison.

say you are with Gandhi, protesting something of great significance, and the authorities are about to physically assault you. would you be able to continue in your passive resistance?

No I could not be that much of a pacifist. I would fight back in defense of myself.

If you found out your brother was cheating on his wife would you tell her?

No. They can work out their marital problems without my intrusions.

If you cheated on your spouse, and it ended without detection, and you resolved that it was something that you would never try again, would you ever tell your spouse about it?

there was a M*A*S*H episode about that. BJ had a one nighter and woke up the next day, trying to write a letter to his wife about it. Hawkeye found out, and stopped him from doing it, essentially saying why punish your wife with this.

I like to think that the foreknowledge of the guilt that would ensue, and the desire to be honorable (and honoring), would never land me in that position.

I lean towards saying id confess, I think the guilt would eat me alive, but I can see the incredible difficulty in doing so and given hawkeye's point above, one wonders if there is any selfishness involved in it.

this is a tough question too because im not married. I think it might help to have the essence of the relationship in front of me---how much is it built on trust, mutual respect, and forgiveness, etc.


youre in the divergent universe and have just taken the test to find out what faction you best belong to. you find out you are divergent. when you go to your faction, would you try to seek out other divergents, or would you go about your business, keeping that knowledge to yourself?

No. if I were sent to the divergent faction, and there were divergents there, then logically they would have to be non-divergents to the dopes who just stuck me in the divergent faction. So why would I seek them out? Damned conformists! (Is this a video game?)



Would you drink a safe and reputedly delicious tea made from bug poop?

(spoiler alert!) no its a young adult book series by veronica roth. there is no "divergent faction"---divergents are killed when they are discovered. thus the moral dilemma of keeping quiet about it, or seeking out others of your kind.

so long as no bugs were harmed in the process, I would be willing to try it...but it would take a lot to get over the ewwwwwwwwww factor.

lemme try the hunger games universe this time. you find yourself in the situation like katniss and peeta. would you, like them decide upon mutual suicide, or would you say no, we need to fight until only one of us is left?

I think I would make the same choice they did because I would want to rebel against the system and not just do what they expected me to do.

You have a beloved cat (or dog if you perfer) and the person you are dating cannot stand your pet. If you had to choose would you give up the pet or end the relationship?

its really unlikely that id be dating someone who wasn't already an animal lover but if I were put in the position of having to choose...id absolutely choose the pet. apart from loving animals to the extent I do, having one is a also a matter of responsibility.

if you had the mental math ability (im reading bringing down the house), would you use it to play blackjack and win hundreds of thousands of dollars?

Yes I probably would

You are on a date and the person you are with tries to scam the restursunt by putting a dead bug on his/her plate. Do you go along with it for the free meal and in hopes of ending the date well or do you tell the staff the truth and risk losing your date?

You ask the trickiest questions, Dark! Hehe. . I remember my dad telling me a story. . like, someone asked a monk, what would you do if you were on a mountain road, there was a tiger ahead of you, and a robber behind you, and you were hanging on a branch. . what would you do? And the monk said, "I wouldn't have gotten myself into that situation." But I suppose I can't use that answer here, can I? :-) I would just laugh it off and pay for the meal I think.

Would you represent your species on a special mission to another planet, in a first contact meeting? If you were chosen for it?

im a huge star trek fan, and I love exploring and star trek: first contact was a great movie (where the Vulcans meet humans for the first time), and I think that would be the neatest thing! so I say yes.

would you give up your all time favorite food for the rest of your life in order to be and feel healthier?

No. Ice cream wins.

Would you be afraid if you saw the ghost of a beloved friend or family member, and the hypothetical specter did nothing threatening, but only crossed the room, sat in a chair, and looked at you?

as I don't believe in ghosts, it would be disturbing maybe, but I don't think "afraid" is the right word...and I might be more bothered by the non-communicative behavior!

different version of my last question above: would you eat something daily that you really didn't like, but that would make you healthier?

Yes. I already do, brussel sprouts.

Would you live on the space station for a year?

Yes! Absolutely. But ideally without expediture of rocket fuel.

Would you be a colonist to another planet or galaxy if, in 200 years, we are able to find and travel there? (And you were chosen?)

Depends what the Earth looks like in 200 years, and what this new planet has to offer; if it's Mars or something then... probably not.

Would you name any cities after yourself if you were a dictator?

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. If I were ever dumb enough to be a dictator, I would name my capitol Bonerville.

If you had inherited a name that your family was very proud of, and the name was Wiener, or Crapper, or Djherkov or something, and you planned on having kids, would you change it?

Yes, if it was something totally preposterous like 'peckerweasel' or 'pissflip'. Also I didn't notice what was wrong with Djherkov for a few minutes. My family aren't the type to be proud of a name anyway so it hardly matters.

Would you (assuming you have the skills to do so quite well) rather adapt an old classic work of literature into a new film, graphic novel, stage play, orchestral score or piece of art nouveau? And what work would you adapt.

I'd do hyper-technological animated movie versions of works that couldn't really be presented in a conventional movie format, like Journey to the West or The Golden As s.

If you were living on a colony on Mars, and you started to run out of food (and couldn't get resupplied), would you raid another colony for food, up to and including cannibalizing its colonists?

Nah I would kill myself before killing other people to eat, or stealing their food and leaving them to starve. If I knew they were getting resupplied though, I would steal from them of course.

Would you move to Sweden to avoid being drafted (or after being drafted) into a war you didn't believe was purposeful or just?

No, if I was convinced it was an unjust war (which would require more than simply not supporting it or not wanting to fight), I would just refuse to go and let the chips fall where they may. Sweden's too damn cold.

From an entirely rational perspective, should a soldier's (or Marine's) life be placed at serious risk in order to retrieve the corpse of a fallen comrade?

Not that I can tell, but I'm not a soldier, maybe it's important to do that for reasons I'm not aware of.

Would you rather be in a submarine, airplane or tank in WW2 (which country you fight for is randomized).

Tough choice, but I guess a tank. Hopefully I'd already have been blown to bits before I burned to cinder and bone. And it might be fun to shoot.

Not that there's a connection, but would you rather live in a world with no war, in which you never got sex, or in a period of frequent wars, in which you had lots of great sex?

So like right now except I have lots of great sex? Yeh, that one, sorry everybody.

Would you blow the whistle on a serious breach of civil liberties by the government if doing so would definitely see you serving a long jail sentence?

Well, I was thinking more like the 100 Years War, but sure, go for it. Use protection, though, okay?

The "definitely" makes the question a little hypothetical. I would probably keep my mouth shut if it were a time of war and I had promised to keep official secrets, depending of course, on the egregiousness of the offense. Otherwise I would spill the beans and just face the music.

Would you stop using a product from a company that was using heinous means of production (child slavery, for example) if you were 100% sure that your not using the product would have no effect on the situation whatsoever? (Please note that I am only talking about you, not about organizing a group boycott).

I already do that, so yes. Generally if I know that a product has been conceived in that way I won't usually buy it. I really only buy food and rent though and I actually buy used designer clothes over fast fashion. I would never, under any circumstance, buy a diamond for example.

Would you rather live by the sea, by the mountains, or alongside a forest?

by the sea

If you were waiting in a long line what would you be doing on your smart phone?

Checking to see if I can get what I want somewhere else or do I really have to stay in this ##@!!^% line!

Would you rather love and lose or just never love at all?

Loved of course.

Would you vote for the forced sterilization of women who give birth to babies which are deformed, addicted to substance, show many signs of fetal alcohol syndrome or are otherwise impaired due to their treatment while in the womb?

I lean towards not. I understand the tension between individual liberty and community responsibility and how the government treads the space in between, but I advocate for the libertarian view of educating people like crazy and hope they make good and right choices. and if they continued to give birth to babies with such great need, I would take it as a matter of faith that it's god's will that we all learn to help care for the children and their mothers.

if you could see into the future and know that you are going to get a very painful divorce, but that the marriage lead you to have children with whom you have a great relationship, would you still get married?

No. My having a great relationship with my kids would not justify the agony I would potentially be putting them through with the divorce, not to mention the pain it would bring to my wife and myself. I'd marry someone else and do my best with the children we had--and with the marriage.

You meet an old friend who reminisces about a coach you both had, who is now dead. Your friend gets choked up and says that the coach was a major influence on his life and the best person he ever knew--in fact he named his son after him. You happen to know (although it is not common knowledge) that the coach later died in prison, where he had been sent for molesting students and making child pornography--charges he ultimately owned up to. Do you disillusion your friend or keep quiet about what you know.

Nah, what's the point?

Would you be able to perform a mercy killing?

On a non-human animal, sure. For humans, my wife is the only one I'd feel responsible for (and be willing to do the time for).

Would you advise a girlfriend you got pregnant to get an abortion, even though there was no unusual risk in the pregnancy?

Depends on a lot of factors. I think I'm morally fine with very early stage abortions though, so assuming I had no intention of staying with her in the first place and I'm in the same financial position I'm in right now, yeh I probably would.

Would you hypnotize/mind control people if you had the power to do so?

Yes, but only to get dangerous people to cut the sh*t. Not to get other people to bend. Life becomes pretty meaningless without the freedom of others to enjoy.

If you had a five year old child who started acting crazy and claiming to be the devil, would you arrange for an discreet exorcism before calling the booby hatch?

I don't think so, even if I believed in exorcisms I probably wouldn't believe I could just find someone qualified to actually do one.

Would you eat someone's (your roommate's, wife's, kid's, etc) cake they had left in the fridge if you knew some innocent third party would take the blame?

No. Even though very few parties, third or otherwise, are innocent.

Would you move into an area where there was some toxic waste exposure, even though credible studies indicated that there was an insufficient dose to cause any health effect?