Would You??

Survivor, but I wouldn't go on one at all.

Would you extinguish one random human life, from somewhere in the world, old or young, if you instantly received $1000000 for doing so? The one stipulation being that your money must be spent selfishly, as in, you can't keep 300k and spend 700k saving multiple lives in Africa to justify it. You can also cause this to happen as many times as you like, would you keep going?

If there was a guarantee that it wouldn't be someone who I personally knew (or at least liked) then I might be tempted to do it at least once. I wouldn't keep doing it, but hey I could use the money at least one time around and I am a misanthrope so I don't like the majority of other people in the world anyway.

If you found a device that allowed you to control the minds of others how would you use it? Or would you?

Of course I would, I would use it to make myself a billionaire through donations from other billionaires. After that I think I could resist the... seedier, applications of such a device. I might however run rampant with politicians, etc... Really though I would use it all the time, no question, you could do anything.


Would you alter the course of any historical conflicts (everything about you will remain the same regardless), if yes, which ones and why? Oh and you can't alter them so that they never happen.

Yes

All Heathens everywhere will have prevented the Christians from gaining a stronghold and it will not have become a global super power of a religion. Why? Because I think the world would be a better place and a lot of other conflicts never would have happened.

The Celts will have defeated the Romans. This is for my own Celtic pride.

If you knew the world was going to end tomorrow what would your last actions on Earth be?

Eh probably just walk around a bit, talk to my family some, but I wouldn't tell them. I don't think I would be too fussed honestly.

Would you rather bring back to life (at the height of their creative powers) Emily Dickinson, Chaucer, Milton, Tolstoy or Gogol? Whoever you choose is now your roommate as well.

Wow, the questions got really good overnight! Sorry for the retroactive hogging in, but I couldn't resist:

I absolutely would not take a random life for any amount of money. Financial security isn't really that hard to achieve if you're smart about it, having more money than you'll need in a lifetime is not important, and the goal of life is to die broke. (Take care of your money when you're young, though).

I do, however, like the idea of controlling billionaires' minds so that they give me all their money. But that's probably just because I find most of them so irritating.

The one event in history I would change would be to stop Zachary Taylor from drinking the bad milk that killed him so he could crush the southern rebellion before the Confederacy got organized, in a small war rather than the years of slaughter that came later.

If the world were about to end, I would get into bed with my wife and hold her to the last, as some did at Pompeii.

And I was going to say Tolstoy for resurrection until I saw the roommate part. If we had to live together it would probably be Chaucer. We'd have a lot of laughs together.

Would you rather get drunk with Jesus or Hemmingway?

Hands down, Hemmingway


Would you rather play chess with Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar?

I would rather play chess with Alexander the Great, because he was a cool guy, more so than Caesar.

Would you dare to jump off the tenth floor of a building for 1 million dollars if on the surface there was a bed on which you would (hopefully) fall?

No way.

Would you gamble more money than you have (at triple risk/triple return) if you thought you had at least a 75% chance of winning?

Mhm I would if it weren't triple risk. Haha though maybe I'll throw down a million I don't have and declare bankruptcy if I lose. Of course if I'm going to owe money to people who will kill me for it then no.

Would you murder the next stranger you see if doing so would make all of your dreams, wants, desires, aspirations, etc, whatever they are, come true? You must accept or decline this proposition before you see the stranger. Choosing yes and then refusing to kill your stranger after seeing that it's a tree year old girl or something will cause both of your heads to explode.

Edit: Your dreams also must be entirely selfish. You can't 'dream of inhabiting a world without violence and hunger'. Nobody's life can be saved, except your own, through wishing here.

Nope. I've already got enough of my dreams (plus it would be wrong).

You have a beautiful 3-year-old child who is everything to you and your spouse. Your child develops a terminal liver disease and will certainly die if a transplant can't be found. Your family is put on a waiting list, but the doctors tell you that there probably won't be enough time. At the last minute, however, you are told that a child's liver has been found. But a few days before the procedure is scheduled, a charity worker confides to you that the organ was purchased by an anonymous benefactor from a criminal group that kidnaps children, then harvests and sells their organs on the black market. Worse yet, the vivisection has not yet happened. The kidnapped child is still alive.

Do you keep your mouth shut and proceed with the planned operation as if nothing had changed?

Yes.

After running into a burning building you are confronted with a wailing infant in one room and 52 manuscripts of previously unknown, unreleased shakespeare plays, each more majestic than the last. Given only enough time to save the plays or the baby what do you do?

You bastard :)

The kid. (But I would have done the same as you with the liver transplant).

Same question, but this time the kid has Down's Syndrome.

lol the kid every time and I think downs syndrome children are really sweet and cute :(

Would you commit or attempt suicide if your dream of becoming a banker went unfulfilled?

Hell no. That sh*t's not important. But I would if my wife and father were already gone and I found out I had cancer again (I had cancer once). Or if I had dementia. Or if I just felt like I was done.

Would you assist in the suicide of a spouse or family member in brutal pain, even if you were likely to go to prison for it?