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suncrafter · 09/14/2007, 07:42 am

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

Harald B · 09/14/2007, 07:57 am

Is this for some kind of academic assignment, perchance? Game Theory, Ethics, Cognition, something else? Anyway, I love these, so here goes:
1 - Punch
2 - Insults
3 - Nothing
4 - Magic
5 - Bomb
I'd offer explanations except that I'm guessing that's not very much the point here (and that I tend to go on far too long for forums in these cases...).

Haggis · 09/14/2007, 09:48 am

1 - Insults
2 - Nothing
3 - Punch
4 - Magic
5 - Bomb

I think I could take the insults. I've been punched in the face before, so I sort of know what it's like (got a bad nosebleed from that, but didn't break anything). Altering my personality would be awkward, and I'm not sure I could live with that, even if I had a million dollars... and nobody should set us up the bomb.

Guybrush Threepwood · 09/14/2007, 11:29 am

1 - Insults
2 - Punch
3 - Nothing
4 - Magic
5 - Bomb

Molokov · 09/14/2007, 06:20 pm

1 - Insults
2 - Punch
3 - Bomb
4 - Nothing
5 - Magic

5000 years is a long time... It might be a little heartless to condem future generations, but this is only hypothetical

Odd how I feel that changing my personality is worse that causing major natural disasters long after I'm dead...

-=[The_Razgriz_Ace]=- · 09/15/2007, 05:06 am

1 - Bomb - By the time this goes off I'll probably be forgotten in time...5,000 years is a long time...alot of generations will have come and gone by then...and by that time we may not be on this planet anyway...so I can just live with my million with nothing to worry about...
2 - Insults - Insults dont mean much...I couldnt care less really...so yeah, 1 hour of insults for 1 Mil aint so bad...
3 - Punch - This hurts, but probably only for a little while...and besides, I have 1 million, so I can just spend some on an ice pack...
4 - Magic - This seems rather dodgy...and Im not sure how it would work...but hey, a million is a million...
5 - Nothing - I WANT MY MILLION DOLLARS!! XD...

doom saber · 09/15/2007, 09:19 pm

I got punched in the face a bunch of times before, so

1. punch
2. insult
3. nothing
4. bomb
5. magic -one can alter it to make one a mass murderer
if that happens and one goes to death row for it, winnin the dinero is pointless and your life screwed up. so no for me.

-=[The_Razgriz_Ace]=- · 09/15/2007, 10:56 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by doom saber

5. magic -one can alter it to make one a mass murderer if that happens and one goes to death row for it, winnin the dinero is pointless and your life screwed up. so no for me.

That also depends on what country you live in...I live in Aus so capital punishment is not done here anymore...just life imprisonment...XD...either way though I suppose it means life over anyway...oh well...I'd still take the million...just so I could say I have a million!

purple_monkfish · 09/17/2007, 11:58 pm

1 - Insults (eh, I can take em)
2 - Punch (not in the face! not in the face!)
3 - Nothing
4 - Bomb (I'd feel guilty)
5 - Magic (I just couldn't live with myself if I wasn't me)

Pvt._Public · 09/20/2007, 01:32 am

1 - Punch (Let's just say, I have no problem with physical pain after some of the things that have happened to me lately)
2 - Insults (I like money, but I still find insults to hurt more than physical pain)
3 - Bomb (I'll be dead when it happens, and I'm a bit of a bastard)
4 - Nothing
5 - Magic (I could never make the decision to change into someone else, even if I wouldn't remember making the decision)

jmm · 09/20/2007, 08:37 am

The Max in me says
1. Bomb (Gotta love 'em, and who cares of what will happen 5,000 years in the future)
2. Insults (Although Punches and .... will happen to the other guys)
3. Nothing
4. Punch
5. Magic (Not again, Hugh!)

09/14/2007, 07:42 am	#1
suncrafter Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 13	Hypothetical Question... 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 __________________ Proud webmaster of: "Stickman Murder Mystery Games" Please visit my Forum too!

09/14/2007, 07:57 am	#2
Harald B Egregious Philosopher Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,448	Is this for some kind of academic assignment, perchance? Game Theory, Ethics, Cognition, something else? Anyway, I love these, so here goes: 1 - Punch 2 - Insults 3 - Nothing 4 - Magic 5 - Bomb I'd offer explanations except that I'm guessing that's not very much the point here (and that I tend to go on far too long for forums in these cases...). __________________ although we do still have a time machine, so I wouldn't completely rule out the possibility. Forgot what T.H.E.M. stands for? Need the lyrics to the War Song? Visit the Sam & Max wiki! Last edited by Harald B; 09/14/2007 at 10:13 am.

09/14/2007, 09:48 am	#3
Haggis Idealist/Surrealist Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands Posts: 1,316	1 - Insults 2 - Nothing 3 - Punch 4 - Magic 5 - Bomb I think I could take the insults. I've been punched in the face before, so I sort of know what it's like (got a bad nosebleed from that, but didn't break anything). Altering my personality would be awkward, and I'm not sure I could live with that, even if I had a million dollars... and nobody should set us up the bomb. __________________ I write, therefore I am.

09/14/2007, 11:29 am	#4
Guybrush Threepwood You fight like a cow! Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: England Posts: 2,228	1 - Insults 2 - Punch 3 - Nothing 4 - Magic 5 - Bomb __________________ Sign here for Bone 3! (with 701+ signatures!)

09/15/2007, 05:06 am	#6
-=[The_Razgriz_Ace]=- ... Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Perth, WA Posts: 85	1 - Bomb - By the time this goes off I'll probably be forgotten in time...5,000 years is a long time...alot of generations will have come and gone by then...and by that time we may not be on this planet anyway...so I can just live with my million with nothing to worry about... 2 - Insults - Insults dont mean much...I couldnt care less really...so yeah, 1 hour of insults for 1 Mil aint so bad... 3 - Punch - This hurts, but probably only for a little while...and besides, I have 1 million, so I can just spend some on an ice pack... 4 - Magic - This seems rather dodgy...and Im not sure how it would work...but hey, a million is a million... 5 - Nothing - I WANT MY MILLION DOLLARS!! XD... __________________ "At least pants are optional!" - Max

09/14/2007, 06:20 pm	#5
Molokov Dingo in a Maternity Ward Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Adelaide, Australia Posts: 1,138	1 - Insults 2 - Punch 3 - Bomb 4 - Nothing 5 - Magic 5000 years is a long time... It might be a little heartless to condem future generations, but this is only hypothetical Odd how I feel that changing my personality is worse that causing major natural disasters long after I'm dead...

09/15/2007, 09:19 pm	#7
doom saber Coffee addict Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Bay Area(Alameda), California Posts: 809	I got punched in the face a bunch of times before, so 1. punch 2. insult 3. nothing 4. bomb 5. magic -one can alter it to make one a mass murderer if that happens and one goes to death row for it, winnin the dinero is pointless and your life screwed up. so no for me. __________________ "Omae wa mō shindeiru"- Kenshiro Kasumi from Fist of the Northstar Last edited by doom saber; 09/15/2007 at 09:23 pm.

09/17/2007, 11:58 pm	#9
purple_monkfish Dread Pirate Necromancer Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: UK Posts: 462	1 - Insults (eh, I can take em) 2 - Punch (not in the face! not in the face!) 3 - Nothing 4 - Bomb (I'd feel guilty) 5 - Magic (I just couldn't live with myself if I wasn't me) __________________ "you ignorant fools! Do you comprehend what you have done? None of us can pass across this rift your weaver mischief has so blindly created! Your pious meddling has brought the end of my dream! You will hear, for all eternity, the cries of those you have abandoned, Bobbin Threadbare! You will always know that you have left them under my rule!"

09/20/2007, 01:32 am	#10
Pvt._Public Evil Talking Skull Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New Zealand Posts: 402	1 - Punch (Let's just say, I have no problem with physical pain after some of the things that have happened to me lately) 2 - Insults (I like money, but I still find insults to hurt more than physical pain) 3 - Bomb (I'll be dead when it happens, and I'm a bit of a bastard) 4 - Nothing 5 - Magic (I could never make the decision to change into someone else, even if I wouldn't remember making the decision) __________________ That's a good point. I'll counter it with a HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Yes I am a bastard. I've worked long and hard for the right to be one and what would be the point if I didn't flaunt it?

09/20/2007, 08:37 am	#11
jmm Fremen Fedaykin Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Arrakis (also known as Dune) Posts: 1,177	The Max in me says 1. Bomb (Gotta love 'em, and who cares of what will happen 5,000 years in the future) 2. Insults (Although Punches and .... will happen to the other guys) 3. Nothing 4. Punch 5. Magic (Not again, Hugh!)

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