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Quote suncrafter Replybullet Topic: Hypothetical Question...
    Posted: 16 September 2007 at 4:30am

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

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Quote spartan_117 Replybullet Posted: 16 September 2007 at 5:36am
1-insults // i can ignore them completely
2-bomb // mankind will destroy itself before 5000 years ( i had a premonition)
3-nothing
4-punch // it would probably cost a million dollars to fix you up.
5-magic//i put this last in the fear i might turn gay.(i dont hate people who r gay i just hate the idea)


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Quote Hapiel Replybullet Posted: 16 September 2007 at 7:41am
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Nothing

All those things are just stupid.. If you dont REALLY need those 1000000000 why would you take them? those things are just stupid. however the insults cant be that wrong..
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Quote Larwick Replybullet Posted: 16 September 2007 at 7:57am
1. Insults
2. Punch (but only if i didn't get a broken nose)
3. Nothing

None of the others. Lame.
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Quote Monkey 'o Doom Replybullet Posted: 16 September 2007 at 11:20am
1.Insults
2.Punch
3.Bomb
4.Nothing
 
 
I would take the bomb option because beyond the impractibility of getting a bomb to the earth's core, it would also be rendered useless (or at least the timing mechanism and other sensitive components) by the massive heat and pressure there.

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Quote PixelSnader Replybullet Posted: 16 September 2007 at 5:09pm
i can't buy stuff with dollars here.

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Quote Metaru Replybullet Posted: 16 September 2007 at 10:55pm
Originally posted by suncrafter

"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!

Kid, that countdown already started a century ago, and is set to 50, not 5,000.
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Quote Hapiel Replybullet Posted: 18 September 2007 at 6:20am
Originally posted by snader

i can't buy stuff with dollars here.

If you get a million dollars, come to my house with them, ill give you 1000 euro's if you give the million for me.. those 1000 euros are usefull for you :)
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Quote Metaru Replybullet Posted: 18 September 2007 at 8:26am
and, on the other hand, it surprises me how cheap is mankind's future.
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Quote Aleiav Replybullet Posted: 18 September 2007 at 1:42pm
1. Bomb
2. Insults
3. Punch
4. Nothing
5. Magic
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Quote Larwick Replybullet Posted: 18 September 2007 at 1:57pm
It's surprising how much some people will do for a million dollars. You'd think you'd prefer to earn your own money properly right? Plus, it's not that much, it'll get you an average house in England these days, and you couldn't live off of it.
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Quote Metaru Replybullet Posted: 18 September 2007 at 6:00pm
after all, it's just one millon dollars. that thing was a lot of money in the 60's
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Quote Aleiav Replybullet Posted: 19 September 2007 at 12:08am
I would like to earn my money properly. In fact, I plan on it. But this is a hypothetical situation, not real life.
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Quote greenraven Replybullet Posted: 22 September 2007 at 1:48pm
1. Insults. Sticks and stones...
2. Nothing. None of the others seem worth it.
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Quote Skull Replybullet Posted: 22 September 2007 at 1:54pm
Insults.. I make witty comebacks to all of them
Punch.. I'd later tw*t that fat guy.


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Quote ScarredShadow Replybullet Posted: 14 October 2007 at 11:55pm
Insults:  Purely because of two things, everyone would be rushing to say something so it would just a blur of noise and sticks and stones.

Punch:  A black eye or split lip isn't a bad injury, especially for $1 million. 

And I mean these are easy ways to earn $1 million, and a million isn't just pocket money. 
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