Would You??

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?