This is the Interesting Hypothetical Question Game. There are 4 detailed hypothetical questions listed below. You can choose to answer however many you like.
The rules are very simple:
1. Answer the question(s) with complete honesty.
2. Give your answer some thought.
3. State which question you are answering by listing the letter.
You can explain or not explain why you chose the answer(s) you did.
Question A
For whatever the reason, two unauthorized movies are made about your life. The first is an independently released documentary, primarily comprised of interviews with people who know you and bootleg footage from your actual life. Critics are describing the documentary as "brutally honest and relentlessly fair." Meanwhile, Columbia Tri-Star has produced a big budget biopic of your life, casting major Hollywood stars as you and all your acquaintances; though the movie is based on actual events, screenwriters have taken some liberties with the facts. Critics are split on the artistic merits of this fictionalized account, but audiences love it.
Which film would you be most interested in seeing?
Question B
Your best friend is taking a nap on the floor of your living room. Suddenly, you are faced with a bizarre existential problem: This friend is going to die unless you kick them (as hard as you can) in the rib cage. If you don't kick them while they slumber, they will never wake up. However, you can never explain this to your friend;if you later inform them that you did this to save their life, they will also die from that. So you have to kick a sleeping friend in the ribs and you can't tell them why.
Since you cannot tell your friend the truth, what excuse will you fabricate this (seemingly inexplicable) attack?
Question C
You are sitting in an empty bar (in a town you've never before visited ), drinking Bacardi with a soft spoken acquaintance you barely know. After an hour, a third individual walks into the tavern and sits by himself, and you ask your new acquaintance who the new man is. "Be careful of that guy" you are told "he is a man with a past." A few minutes later, a fourth person enters the bar, he also sits alone. You ask your new acquaintance who this new individual is. "Be careful of that guy, too" he says. "He is a man with no past."
Which of these two people do you trust less?
Question D
You have a brain tumor. Though there is no discomfort at the moment, this tumor will unquestionably kill you in six months. However, your life can (and will) be saved by an operation; the only downside is that there will be a brutal incision to your frontal lobe. After the surgery, you will be significantly less intelligent. You will still be a fully functioning person, but you will be less logical, you will have a terrible memory, and you will have little ability to understand complex concepts or difficult ideas. The surgery is in two weeks.
How do you spend the next fourteen days?
The rules are very simple:
1. Answer the question(s) with complete honesty.
2. Give your answer some thought.
3. State which question you are answering by listing the letter.
You can explain or not explain why you chose the answer(s) you did.
Question A
For whatever the reason, two unauthorized movies are made about your life. The first is an independently released documentary, primarily comprised of interviews with people who know you and bootleg footage from your actual life. Critics are describing the documentary as "brutally honest and relentlessly fair." Meanwhile, Columbia Tri-Star has produced a big budget biopic of your life, casting major Hollywood stars as you and all your acquaintances; though the movie is based on actual events, screenwriters have taken some liberties with the facts. Critics are split on the artistic merits of this fictionalized account, but audiences love it.
Which film would you be most interested in seeing?
Question B
Your best friend is taking a nap on the floor of your living room. Suddenly, you are faced with a bizarre existential problem: This friend is going to die unless you kick them (as hard as you can) in the rib cage. If you don't kick them while they slumber, they will never wake up. However, you can never explain this to your friend;if you later inform them that you did this to save their life, they will also die from that. So you have to kick a sleeping friend in the ribs and you can't tell them why.
Since you cannot tell your friend the truth, what excuse will you fabricate this (seemingly inexplicable) attack?
Question C
You are sitting in an empty bar (in a town you've never before visited ), drinking Bacardi with a soft spoken acquaintance you barely know. After an hour, a third individual walks into the tavern and sits by himself, and you ask your new acquaintance who the new man is. "Be careful of that guy" you are told "he is a man with a past." A few minutes later, a fourth person enters the bar, he also sits alone. You ask your new acquaintance who this new individual is. "Be careful of that guy, too" he says. "He is a man with no past."
Which of these two people do you trust less?
Question D
You have a brain tumor. Though there is no discomfort at the moment, this tumor will unquestionably kill you in six months. However, your life can (and will) be saved by an operation; the only downside is that there will be a brutal incision to your frontal lobe. After the surgery, you will be significantly less intelligent. You will still be a fully functioning person, but you will be less logical, you will have a terrible memory, and you will have little ability to understand complex concepts or difficult ideas. The surgery is in two weeks.
How do you spend the next fourteen days?
