Hypothetically speaking - lets say you have an opportunity to win $1,000,000 in a contest. To win - you must choose from one of the following five options:
"Punch" option ---- You will be punched in the face, just once, by a big fat man. The punch is guaranteed not to be fatal nor to cause brain damage, but you will likely sustain a nasty injury such as a split lip, black eye or perhaps even a broken nose. After being punched - you will be given the $1,000,000!
"Bomb" option ---- Nothing will happen to you. However, you will start the countdown on a huge bomb that is hidden deep inside the center of the Earth. The bomb is large enough that, when detonated, it will cause devastating earth quakes and floods all over the planet. The bomb is completely undetectable and can not be disarmed. However it will not detonate until exactly 5,000 years in the future. As soon as the countdown has started - you will be given the $1,000,000!
"Insults" option ---- Twenty people will shout terrible insults and obscenities at you for one full hour. These people will not come into physical contact with you nor harm you, but they will say all sorts of horrible and upsetting things to you. After one full hour of intense verbal abuse - you will be given the $1,000,000!
"Magic" option ---- Your personality and ethical convictions will be painlessly altered in some unknown way by a magic spell. The alteration will be instantaneous and will not affect your memory, cause brain damage nor result in any physical harm of any kind. After the alteration - you will be given the $1,000,000!
"Nothing" option ---- None of the above. Nothing happens to you or anyone else, but you will NOT be given any money.
Which option would you choose first? Second? Third? Etc...???
Please list them like so ... (with "1" listed as your first choice, "2" as your next choice, and so on...)
1 - option name 2 - option name 3 - option name 4 - option name 5 - option name
Posts: 16 | Location: IL. USA | Registered: 12-20-06
There are only two options I'd choose. The first I'd choose would be the insults option. I don't think anyone could say an insult that would be so terrible that I'd regret it. Maybe that's just me though. The second would be nothing since nothing is never bad.
Posts: 6496 | Location: Grayson, Georgia, USA | Registered: 06-03-02
I have to laugh. I get what I imagine to be more insults than most for my viewpoints right here in the religion forums, and I once wrote that I hope that I die rich and famous, knowing that my viewpoints were finally accepted after all. It seems as though I set myself on track for the insults option.
I'd definitely go for the insult option. "Sticks and stones...." and all that. Depending on my financial and living situation at the time of being given this choice, I might also go for the punch option (not right now, as I am pregnant and wouldn't want to do anything that could even remotely harms the babies).
wouldn't want to do anything that could even remotely harms the babies).
Was that babies..as in two? Congratulations Silja. dg
I'd go for the 'nothing' option. Money means little to me, other than what I need for basic things. By the same reasoning, another person having a lot of money doesn't impress me either. What the heck would I do with $1000,000 anyway?
Insults Punch Nothing The others are not an option for any amount of money. I really don't see any balance in the choices - either they are unreasonably easy or unreasonably impossible to accept.
Posts: 3056 | Location: USA | Registered: 06-04-02
When they are born kiss them on their forehead and then rub it in with your thumb for me. Love is truth and to kiss their minds in truth is holy. Bring them up to the knowledge that to become a success in their own lives is the greatest honour a parent can expect.
As an afterthought I will say that love of money is the root of all evil.
Posts: 1773 | Location: Kingsford, MI USA | Registered: 06-13-02
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