I'm sure all internet users have seen this over the years.
One of the first examples of this I saw was in a thread about 9 years ago when someone asked
"If you caught Bin Ladin and he offered you 10 million dollars to let him go. Would you?" (This was before there was a bounty on him)
This followed by about 5 pages of "I would kill him and take the money"
But this way of thinking still lives on. Even some very educated and smart people can never and will never accept or be able to imagine a hypothetical scenario. So they avoid the question. Demand more alternatives. Make up their own alternatives. Reject the scenario all together but still wish to participate.
Its the same people who demand third options in polls like "Don't care either way"
One of the first examples of this I saw was in a thread about 9 years ago when someone asked
"If you caught Bin Ladin and he offered you 10 million dollars to let him go. Would you?" (This was before there was a bounty on him)
This followed by about 5 pages of "I would kill him and take the money"
But this way of thinking still lives on. Even some very educated and smart people can never and will never accept or be able to imagine a hypothetical scenario. So they avoid the question. Demand more alternatives. Make up their own alternatives. Reject the scenario all together but still wish to participate.
Its the same people who demand third options in polls like "Don't care either way"