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I would, yes. I might not age myself ten years but I would defintely agree to lose ten years off the end of my life.
Would you choose perfect beauty or perfect intellect?
Also come on... eternal damnation in exchange for sixty or so years on Earth? You will REALLY be regretting that in thirty six trillion lifetimes.
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Originally Posted by Iain Sparrow
You know, this sounds remarkably short-sighted. Trading ten years off the end of your life might just be the last ten years you've got. One is reminded of these lines from The Goon Show...Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
"He says he wishes to die rich, Sire."
"Very well. Give him this bag of gold and then strangle him."
For myself, or as qualities of a potential mate? For myself, intellect. As for a partner, well the beauty doesn't have to be perfect, but I wouldn't want to rule it out completely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
Would you like to travel to work in a tank?
I'd rather live to 70 with no worries or stresses about money and a fortune without ever having to work than live to eighty and work for forty years of my life.
No, I'd rather not have to work. Tanks for the offer, though. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hawkman
Would you rather have hallucinations that (actually non-existent) horrors were trying to get you, or have actual horrors like a potentially recurrent cancer trying to get you?
Mhm, hard to say, but I think I'll take the hallucinations.
Would you eat dog?
No.
Would you go on a hunger strike?
I'd take cancer. Only live long if it's worth it.
Would you rather watch an intellectually stimulating and emotionally stirring movie (2 hours @price of a movie) or read an equally intellectually stimulating and emotionally stirring novel of 1000 pages (@price of an ebook)?
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Originally Posted by piaya
No, but I'd eat a dog. When I lived in Africa, we used to eat rats.
Would you withhold information from your doctor out of embarrassment?
I would unless I was really worried about dying or something serious like that.
Would you give your guaranteed spot in a lifeboat to a child?
My child (which I don't have). Or my wife. Or my Dad (who wouldn't take it). Otherwise, happy landings! :)
Would you use a socially forbidden ethnic slur (in a non-polemical context) just to show that you had free speech?
Sure, if I had some cause to do so.
Would you take a lucrative job shilling on the internet for Putin's government? You just have to make a few pro Russia posts every day and you get plenty of roubles.
Maybe if I were desperate for money, but I'm not, so no.
Would you cancel your wedding at the last moment (that is, just not show) if you were scared it was a mistake?
Yes I would, but I would be very unlikely to propose marriage or agree to marriage in the first place if I thought there was any room to doubt.
Would you (assume you are single for the sake of the hypothetical) sleep with a woman who you knew was married.
Well do as you like, Clopin, but if you are ever in that position, remember this advice. Every groom who ever got married had those fears, because on the most primal level, marriage accords with what nature wants females to do, which is to grow a nice, safe garden; and not what it wants males to do, which is to pollinate as many blossoms as possible. All grooms panic. Go through with it anyway. If it goes badly you can always get out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
Well, I wouldn't recommend it. It's dangerous and seldom works out. But I can see some situations where it might potentially happen. Love and reason don't always see eye to eye.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
Would you rather go to an intellectually stimulating and emotionally stirring movie (2 hours @price of a going to a movie) or read an equally intellectually stimulating and emotionally stirring novel of 900 to 1000 pages (@price of an ebook)?
Haha well I was thinking of more serious concerns than the monogomy issue at least. If I can't reconcile my desire to pollinate with what I want out of family life I'll, hopeully, be able to realise that before things get so far.
The book; they are different mediums and I sort of don't think film can do as much for me. 900 pages is also a lot more to work with than a two hour film.
Would you land with the allied forces on d-day if you knew for sure you would not be killed or seriously wounded, just to check things out. If no are there any battles you would want to participate in? With the same assurance that you won't be killed or maimed.