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Dec 2001 time: 07:25
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OK, I think these questions will make your think a bit... Try to answer them.
Question #1:For a person you love deeply, would you be willing to move to a distant country knowing that there would be little chance of you ever seeing your family and friends again?
Question #2: Do you believe in ghost? would you be willing to spend a weekend alone in a remote house that is supposedly haunted because death occured there?
Question #3:Would you be willing to take the life of a child if you knew this would cure world hunger and end starvation?
Question #4:You are a couple who is expecting your first child. The doctor tells you that there is a 50 percent chance that the child will be blind and deaf. This is your one and only chance to have a child. Would you give up your only chance of having this child because he/she may be blind and deaf? Or would you take the risk and have it?
Question #5:If you could spend 10 years in perfect happiness--having everything you could possibly want out of life, but afterwards would remember nothing of the experience, would you do it?
Question #6:A person that you know successfully
completes a robbery. Although he gets away with ten million dollars, a person dies during the robbery. Assuming this person will NEVER get caught and he/she offers you half the money (and you REALLY need the money) to keep quiet, would you take it? Or would you turn him in and get nothing? By the way, the person killed was a homeless person--a John Doe, and had no family.
Question #7:You discover your wonderful one year old child is, because of a mix up, not yours. When you start to search for your own child you are told it will take at least five years to find your child. Futhermore, you are also informed that it is possible that your child is no longer alive. Meanwhile, the one year old will be removed from your home. Do you risk having the only child you know as yours removed from home in order to wait five years to find your own child that may or may not be alive? Or do you just keep the child in your home and say nothing?
Question #8: Do you think the world will be better or worse off 100 years from now?
Question #9: Would you like to know the date of your and your relatives/friends deathes? (assuming that you could do nothing to prevent those deaths).
(Questions (c) "Book of Questions" 1983)
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All Glory To The Hypnotoad!
Mar 2002 time: 05:25
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1 - Yes
2 - No and Yes
3 - Yes
4 - Have the kid
5 - Of course. What's the downside?
6 - Show me the money!
7 - Those options suck, I'd do neither of those.
8 - About the same
9 - Of course not.
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Mar 1999 time: 00:25
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Question #1:For a person you love deeply, would you be willing to move to a distant country knowing that there would be little chance of you ever seeing your family and friends again? Yes. Especially if the money is good.
Question #2: Do you believe in ghost? would you be willing to spend a weekend alone in a remote house that is supposedly haunted because death occured there? No. Yes.
Question #3:Would you be willing to take the life of a child if you knew this would cure world hunger and end starvation? No.
Question #4:You are a couple who is expecting your first child. The doctor tells you that there is a 50 percent chance that the child will be blind and deaf. This is your one and only chance to have a child. Would you give up your only chance of having this child because he/she may be blind and deaf? Or would you take the risk and have it? No. Yes.
Question #5:If you could spend 10 years in perfect happiness--having everything you could possibly want out of life, but afterwards would remember nothing of the experience, would you do it? No. Why bother?
Question #6:A person that you know successfully
completes a robbery. Although he gets away with ten million dollars, a person dies during the robbery. Assuming this person will NEVER get caught and he/she offers you half the money (and you REALLY need the money) to keep quiet, would you take it? Or would you turn him in and get nothing? By the way, the person killed was a homeless person--a John Doe, and had no family. Turn him in. No amount of money is worth a lifetime of guilt and worry.
Question #7:You discover your wonderful one year old child is, because of a mix up, not yours. When you start to search for your own child you are told it will take at least five years to find your child. Futhermore, you are also informed that it is possible that your child is no longer alive. Meanwhile, the one year old will be removed from your home. Do you risk having the only child you know as yours removed from home in order to wait five years to find your own child that may or may not be alive? Or do you just keep the child in your home and say nothing? Hell no. Hell Yes.
Question #8: Do you think the world will be better or worse off 100 years from now? Better.
Question #9: Would you like to know the date of your and your relatives/friends deathes? (assuming that you could do nothing to prevent those deaths). Again, Hell No.
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Eli
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Israel
Jul 2000 time: 07:25
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quote: Originally posted by Sonic
Question #1:For a person you love deeply, would you be willing to move to a distant country knowing that there would be little chance of you ever seeing your family and friends again? |
Depends on the circumstances. What if it's not love, but the future. I know that when we left for Israel my mother assumed that she will never see her family again. Thankfully reality was much better.
quote: Question #2: Do you believe in ghost? would you be willing to spend a weekend alone in a remote house that is supposedly haunted because death occured there? |
It will be spooky. But it all depends on what will I get in return?
quote: Question #3:Would you be willing to take the life of a child if you knew this would cure world hunger and end starvation? |
Yes. And I wouldnt feel a bit of guilt over it.
quote: Question #4:You are a couple who is expecting your first child. The doctor tells you that there is a 50 percent chance that the child will be blind and deaf. This is your one and only chance to have a child. Would you give up your only chance of having this child because he/she may be blind and deaf? Or would you take the risk and have it? |
If "only" blind or deaf? I'll have the kid. But something significantly serious, no.
quote: Question #5:If you could spend 10 years in perfect happiness--having everything you could possibly want out of life, but afterwards would remember nothing of the experience, would you do it? |
No. If you dont remember it, it never happened.
quote: Question #6:A person that you know successfully
completes a robbery. Although he gets away with ten million dollars, a person dies during the robbery. Assuming this person will NEVER get caught and he/she offers you half the money (and you REALLY need the money) to keep quiet, would you take it? Or would you turn him in and get nothing? By the way, the person killed was a homeless person--a John Doe, and had no family. |
I will take the money.
quote: Question #7:You discover your wonderful one year old child is, because of a mix up, not yours. When you start to search for your own child you are told it will take at least five years to find your child. Futhermore, you are also informed that it is possible that your child is no longer alive. Meanwhile, the one year old will be removed from your home. Do you risk having the only child you know as yours removed from home in order to wait five years to find your own child that may or may not be alive? Or do you just keep the child in your home and say nothing? |
Risk.
quote: Question #8: Do you think the world will be better or worse off 100 years from now? |
Overall, better.
quote: Question #9: Would you like to know the date of your and your relatives/friends deathes? (assuming that you could do nothing to prevent those deaths). |
No.
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Los Angeles, CA, USA
Feb 1999 time: 21:25
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quote: Originally posted by Sonic
OK, I think these questions will make your think a bit... [/]quote]
Naw, they're easy.
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Question #1:For a person you love deeply, would you be willing to move to a distant country knowing that there would be little chance of you ever seeing your family and friends again? |
Move.
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Question #2: Do you believe in ghost? would you be willing to spend a weekend alone in a remote house that is supposedly haunted because death occured there? |
I believe there are probably ghosts. If properly motivated, I would spend the night in the haunted house because (a) most ghosts are benign and (b) those that aren't can't hurt you 'cause they're dead.
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Question #3:Would you be willing to take the life of a child if you knew this would cure world hunger and end starvation? |
In a heartbeat. 1 life vs. 10,000/day. Do the math.
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Question #4:You are a couple who is expecting your first child. The doctor tells you that there is a 50 percent chance that the child will be blind and deaf. This is your one and only chance to have a child. Would you give up your only chance of having this child because he/she may be blind and deaf? Or would you take the risk and have it? |
Have it. The only problem with being blind and deaf is that you can't see or hear. But it's still a kid.
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Question #5:If you could spend 10 years in perfect happiness--having everything you could possibly want out of life, but afterwards would remember nothing of the experience, would you do it?
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Why would I?? BTW, this happened to a friend of my brother-in-law. He spend years on drugs, and was finally found living under a bush by his family & successfully went thru rehab. My brother in law later commented, "Well, at least you have all those great memories," to which the friend reply. "Jim, I can't remember a thing!" 
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Question #6:A person that you know successfully
completes a robbery. Although he gets away with ten million dollars, a person dies during the robbery. Assuming this person will NEVER get caught and he/she offers you half the money (and you REALLY need the money) to keep quiet, would you take it? Or would you turn him in and get nothing? By the way, the person killed was a homeless person--a John Doe, and had no family. |
Both. Take the money, turn him in, deny any knowledge of the money. 
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Question #7:You discover your wonderful one year old child is, because of a mix up, not yours. When you start to search for your own child you are told it will take at least five years to find your child. Futhermore, you are also informed that it is possible that your child is no longer alive. Meanwhile, the one year old will be removed from your home. Do you risk having the only child you know as yours removed from home in order to wait five years to find your own child that may or may not be alive? Or do you just keep the child in your home and say nothing?
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The kid that I'm raising is mine. The other kid just had my DNA.
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Question #8: Do you think the world will be better or worse off 100 years from now?
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Not sure. It'll either be better off or gone.
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Question #9: Would you like to know the date of your and your relatives/friends deathes? (assuming that you could do nothing to prevent those deaths).
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Don't want to know. Wouldn't matter anyway. In Question 1, I've moved to a distant land and will never see them again. 
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Eli
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Israel
Jul 2000 time: 07:25
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quote:
So, if you personally had to break a 1 year-olds neck, you wouldn't feel guilty? |
If by not doing it I cause the deaths of millions, yes.
It will, of course, be very uncomfortable(to say the least), but no guilt.
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Eli
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Israel
Jul 2000 time: 07:25
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT
Methinks the child-killers on this thread have no experience with children of their own. |
Is causing the death of one kid "worse" than causing the death of millions only because you are the direct killer, rather than an indirect one?
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Question #1:For a person you love deeply, would you be willing to move to a distant country knowing that there would be little chance of you ever seeing your family and friends again?
Yes. If she lives somewhere sunny then I wouldn't even have to love her that deeply. Hell, she wouldn't even have to exist...
Question #2: Do you believe in ghost? would you be willing to spend a weekend alone in a remote house that is supposedly haunted because death occured there?
Nope, and yes.
Question #3:Would you be willing to take the life of a child if you knew this would cure world hunger and end starvation?
Nasty... it would depend on the child. Some people I couldn't harm even at those stakes.
Question #4:You are a couple who is expecting your first child. The doctor tells you that there is a 50 percent chance that the child will be blind and deaf. This is your one and only chance to have a child. Would you give up your only chance of having this child because he/she may be blind and deaf? Or would you take the risk and have it?
Well I don't much want children, so the poor git is in trouble anyway. Assuming I did want a child then I'd probably go ahead, but it's difficult to put yourself in that position.
Question #5:If you could spend 10 years in perfect happiness--having everything you could possibly want out of life, but afterwards would remember nothing of the experience, would you do it?
Ah, but I intend to do that anyway. 
Yes, I guess I would.
Question #6:A person that you know successfully
completes a robbery. Although he gets away with ten million dollars, a person dies during the robbery. Assuming this person will NEVER get caught and he/she offers you half the money (and you REALLY need the money) to keep quiet, would you take it? Or would you turn him in and get nothing? By the way, the person killed was a homeless person--a John Doe, and had no family.
Either I'd turn them in or I wouldn't depending on who it was, but the money wouldn't make a difference.
Of course I'd take the 5 mil from them regardless.
Question #7:You discover your wonderful one year old child is, because of a mix up, not yours. When you start to search for your own child you are told it will take at least five years to find your child. Futhermore, you are also informed that it is possible that your child is no longer alive. Meanwhile, the one year old will be removed from your home. Do you risk having the only child you know as yours removed from home in order to wait five years to find your own child that may or may not be alive? Or do you just keep the child in your home and say nothing?
Dunno... is it in the habit of puking on the carpet? Just kidding. I'd keep the child, I think.
Question #8: Do you think the world will be better or worse off 100 years from now?
Either better, or (in a human sense) not here at all. Probably better.
Question #9: Would you like to know the date of your and your relatives/friends deathes? (assuming that you could do nothing to prevent those deaths).
No thanks, I'll preserve the illusion of immortality as long as I can.
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Eli
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Israel
Jul 2000 time: 07:25
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quote: Originally posted by Starchild
Since this is a pressing moral issue, I'm assuming the kid is mine or in some way I have a vested emotional attachment to it. As I'm faced with a child I love on one hand versus millions of faceless strangers on the other, I've gotta go with the kid.
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Well, the OP didnt specify what child it is, so I assumed random, therefore no one you know.
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Sweet Sauce Jones
Jul 1999 time: 00:25
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#1: Yes
#2: No, Yes. I do, however, believe in zombies, and hooo baby, are they ever sexy. If there were zombies in the house, then I'd be there in a heartbeat.
#3: No, I'm not much in to cannibalism, and besides, even if the baby weighed several million pounds its death would still be only a temporary solution to world hunger. (Kill a million-pound baby, and you feed the world for a day. Clone a million million-pound babies, and you feed the world for a million days.)
#4: Have the kid. It would probably be a bit more challenging to have a blind/deaf child, but so what? Having any child would be challenging.
#5: Nope.
#6: I'd turn the ****er in. (BTW, in what scenario would I REALLY NEED five million dollars? )
#7: Keep the kid.
#8: Worse, since I'll probably be dead, and a world without loinburger is not a world I want to live in.
#9: I wouldn't want to know the date of my own death, but it might be fun to know the date of my friends'/relatives' deaths -- I could do things like throw darts at them or put them in meat grinders or whatever, just to see them miraculously survive again and again.
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quote: Originally posted by Sonic
OK, I think these questions will make your think a bit... Try to answer them.
Question #1:For a person you love deeply, would you be willing to move to a distant country knowing that there would be little chance of you ever seeing your family and friends again? |
Yes.
quote: Question #2: Do you believe in ghost? would you be willing to spend a weekend alone in a remote house that is supposedly haunted because death occured there? |
Yes, No
quote: Question #3:Would you be willing to take the life of a child if you knew this would cure world hunger and end starvation? |
Yes, though I would feel guilt about it for the rest of my life.
quote: Question #4:You are a couple who is expecting your first child. The doctor tells you that there is a 50 percent chance that the child will be blind and deaf. This is your one and only chance to have a child. Would you give up your only chance of having this child because he/she may be blind and deaf? Or would you take the risk and have it? |
No. It's not worth the risk to put a child through such a thing.
quote: Question #5:If you could spend 10 years in perfect happiness--having everything you could possibly want out of life, but afterwards would remember nothing of the experience, would you do it? |
No. Theres no point if I dont remember it....
quote: Question #6:A person that you know successfully
completes a robbery. Although he gets away with ten million dollars, a person dies during the robbery. Assuming this person will NEVER get caught and he/she offers you half the money (and you REALLY need the money) to keep quiet, would you take it? Or would you turn him in and get nothing? By the way, the person killed was a homeless person--a John Doe, and had no family. |
Yes I would. The memory of the homeless person is best served if the money is used to help my family, not if some person gets thrown in jail.
quote: Question #7:You discover your wonderful one year old child is, because of a mix up, not yours. When you start to search for your own child you are told it will take at least five years to find your child. Futhermore, you are also informed that it is possible that your child is no longer alive. Meanwhile, the one year old will be removed from your home. Do you risk having the only child you know as yours removed from home in order to wait five years to find your own child that may or may not be alive? Or do you just keep the child in your home and say nothing? |
Quite simple: I hire someone else to go find my child, and I keep the one year old here.
quote: Question #8: Do you think the world will be better or worse off 100 years from now? |
Worse. Though in maybe 1000 itll be better.
quote: Question #9: Would you like to know the date of your and your relatives/friends deathes? (assuming that you could do nothing to prevent those deaths). |
Yes.
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Pittsburgh, PA
Apr 1999 time: 00:25
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"Question #1:For a person you love deeply, would you be willing to move to a distant country knowing that there would be little chance of you ever seeing your family and friends again?"
Probably.
"Question #2: Do you believe in ghost? would you be willing to spend a weekend alone in a remote house that is supposedly haunted because death occured there?"
I don't believe in ghosts, and I would be willing to spend said weekend.
"Question #3:Would you be willing to take the life of a child if you knew this would cure world hunger and end starvation?"
No.
"Question #4:You are a couple who is expecting your first child. The doctor tells you that there is a 50 percent chance that the child will be blind and deaf. This is your one and only chance to have a child. Would you give up your only chance of having this child because he/she may be blind and deaf? Or would you take the risk and have it?"
Keep the child.
"Question #5:If you could spend 10 years in perfect happiness--having everything you could possibly want out of life, but afterwards would remember nothing of the experience, would you do it?"
Sure.
"Question #6:A person that you know successfully
completes a robbery. Although he gets away with ten million dollars, a person dies during the robbery. Assuming this person will NEVER get caught and he/she offers you half the money (and you REALLY need the money) to keep quiet, would you take it? Or would you turn him in and get nothing? By the way, the person killed was a homeless person--a John Doe, and had no family."
How bad do I need the money? Do I need it a for a life saving medical operation for someone in my family? If I really needed it and I was confident the robber would never do it again I would do it.
"Question #7:You discover your wonderful one year old child is, because of a mix up, not yours. When you start to search for your own child you are told it will take at least five years to find your child. Futhermore, you are also informed that it is possible that your child is no longer alive. Meanwhile, the one year old will be removed from your home. Do you risk having the only child you know as yours removed from home in order to wait five years to find your own child that may or may not be alive? Or do you just keep the child in your home and say nothing?"
Try to get my real child.
"Question #8: Do you think the world will be better or worse off 100 years from now?"
Worse. The world's population is growing way too fast and it will become harder and harder to sustain it.
"Question #9: Would you like to know the date of your and your relatives/friends deathes? (assuming that you could do nothing to prevent those deaths)."
Yes.
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It doesn't matter what your name is!
Feb 2000 time: 00:25
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quote: Originally posted by Sonic
OK, I think these questions will make your think a bit... Try to answer them.
Question #1:For a person you love deeply, would you be willing to move to a distant country knowing that there would be little chance of you ever seeing your family and friends again? |
Yes.
quote: Question #2: Do you believe in ghost? would you be willing to spend a weekend alone in a remote house that is supposedly haunted because death occured there? |
No, and only if there was a purpose...otherwise I don't see the point.
quote: Question #3:Would you be willing to take the life of a child if you knew this would cure world hunger and end starvation? |
I probably couldn't bring myself to do it, but I think it would be 'for the greater good'.
quote: Question #4:You are a couple who is expecting your first child. The doctor tells you that there is a 50 percent chance that the child will be blind and deaf. This is your one and only chance to have a child. Would you give up your only chance of having this child because he/she may be blind and deaf? Or would you take the risk and have it? |
Don't see why not. I'd love him/her either way, and it's still only a coin flip.
quote: Question #5:If you could spend 10 years in perfect happiness--having everything you could possibly want out of life, but afterwards would remember nothing of the experience, would you do it? |
Sure, why not?
quote: Question #6:A person that you know successfully
completes a robbery. Although he gets away with ten million dollars, a person dies during the robbery. Assuming this person will NEVER get caught and he/she offers you half the money (and you REALLY need the money) to keep quiet, would you take it? Or would you turn him in and get nothing? By the way, the person killed was a homeless person--a John Doe, and had no family. |
No, I would turn him/her in.
quote: Question #7:You discover your wonderful one year old child is, because of a mix up, not yours. When you start to search for your own child you are told it will take at least five years to find your child. Futhermore, you are also informed that it is possible that your child is no longer alive. Meanwhile, the one year old will be removed from your home. Do you risk having the only child you know as yours removed from home in order to wait five years to find your own child that may or may not be alive? Or do you just keep the child in your home and say nothing? |
Search for my child.
quote: Question #8: Do you think the world will be better or worse off 100 years from now? |
Better.
quote: Question #9: Would you like to know the date of your and your relatives/friends deathes? (assuming that you could do nothing to prevent those deaths). |
Absolutely. I'd like to know when I am going...it would motivate me to do certain things ahead of time...it would also tell me when to get the best moments with people that might not be around much longer. I welcome death, I don't fear it.
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