Questions

[Richard Nixon]

Note these questions are derived from The Book of Questions by Gregory Stock, PH.D (New York: Workman), 1988. My answers are in bold

1. If a new medicine were developed that would cure arthritis but cause a fatal reaction in one percent of those who took it, would you want it to be released to the public? Yes I would since for 99% of the populace it would make their lives easier and better.

2. You discover your wonderful one-year old child is, because of a mixup at the hospital, not yours. Would you want to exchange the child to try to correct the mistake? Yes.

3. You are given the power to kill people simply by thinking of their deaths and twice repeating the word "good-bye." People would die a natural death and no one would suspect you. Are there any situations in which you would use this power? For criminals and dictators yes. For instance I could end the War on Terrorism by simultenously killing all the members of Al-Qaeda.

4. Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable yet unexciting private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a tolerable and uninspiring professional life. I'd prefer a good professional life.

5. If you knew of a way to use your estate following your death, to greatly benefit humanity, would you do it and leave only a minimal amount to your family? Yes but depending on my family's financial situation at the time.

6. If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you? Yes on evil people.

7. While on a trip to another city, your spouse (or lover) meets and spends a night with an exciting stranger. Given that they will never meet again, and that you will not otherwise learn of the incident, would you want your partner to tell you about it? If roles were reversed, would you reveal what you done? Yes and yes.

8. For an all-expense-paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off its wings? What about stepping on a cockroach? Yes.

9. Would you be willing to murder an innocent person if it would end hunger in the world? Yes because one person would die and end up saving millions.

10. Would you rather be given $10,000 for your own use or $100,000 to give anonymously to strangers? What if you could keep $1,000,000 or give away $20,000,000. Since I'm not in the best of financial conditions right now I'd prefer the money for myself and if I make more money by investing it then I can help even more people.

11. If you knew there would be a nuclear war in one week, what would you do? Go to a very remote part of the US and organize civil defense groups.

12. Someone very close to you is in pain, paralyzed, and will die within a month. He begs you to give him poison so that he can die. Would you? What if it were your father? No and no.

13. While parking late at night, you slightly scrape the side of a Porsche. You are certain no one else is aware of what happened. The damage is minor and would not be covered by insurance. Would you leave a note? Not now as I don't have enough money but I would memorize the license plate number and repay him when I have enough money.

14. Would you add one year to your life if it meant taking one year from the life of someone in the world selected at random? Would it matter if you were told whose life you had shortened? Yes as it's shortening life not killing someone and possibly.

15. Assume there were a technological breakthrough that would allow people to travel as easily and cheaply between continents as between nearby cities. Unfortunately, there would also be 100,000 deaths a year from the device. Would you try to prevent it's use? No, as such inventions as the automobile or the airplane cause a lot of deaths from accidents. I'd try to regulate it but not stop it.

16. You and a person you love deeply are placed in separate rooms with a button next to each of you. You know that you will both be killed unless one of you presses the button before sixty minutes pass; furthermore, the first to press the button will save the other person, but will immediately be killed. What do you do? Wait for the other person to push the button.

17. If you were to discover that your closest friend was a heroin dealer, what would you do? Call the police, the USA is a nation of laws.

18. Which of the following restrictions could you best tolerate: leaving the country permanently or never leaving the state in which you now live? I love the USA and my home state of California so the latter.

19. Where would you choose to be if you could place yourself anywhere on a scale from one to ten, where one is hardship, struggle, and extraordinary accomplishment and ten is comfort, peace of mind, and no accomplishment. Why? Where are you now? Six as it gives the best of both and right now nine.

20. While in the government, you discover the President is commiting extortion and other serious crimes. By exposing the situation you might bring about the President's downfall, but you career would be destroyed because you would be framed, fried, and publicly humiliated on other matters. Knowing you would vindicated five years later, would you blow the whistle? What if you knew you would never be vindicated. Yes and yes.

21. If this country were to suffer an unprovoked nuclear attack and would be totally obiterated in a matter of minutes, would you favour unleashing the U.S. nuclear arsenal upon the attackers? Yes.

22. If you were happily married, and then met someone you felt was certain to always bring you deeply passionate, intoxicating love, would you leave your spouse? What if you had kids? Provided I'm still fond of my spouse I'd stay with her. Good, steady love is enough for me and I prefer to keep my marital fidelity.

23. Assuming that complete recovery were instantaneous, would you be willing to accept a year of complete paralysis below the neck to prevent the otherwise certain extinction of the blue whale? No.

24. Do you believe in capital punishment? Would you be willing to execute a man sentenced to death by the courts if you were selected by lot to do so and he would go free if you refused? Assuming you know no details of the case. Yes and yes.

25. While out one day, you are surprised to see your mother holding hands with someone who is clearly her lover. She notices you, runs over, and begs you not to say anything to your father. How would you respond? What would you do if your father later told you that he was going crazy because he kept thinking your mother was having an affair yet knew it was just his imagination? I would tell my father the truth and have a detective film the evidence to help him in his divorce trial.

26. Which would you prefer: a wild, turbulent life filled with joy, sorrow, passion, and adventure-intoxicating successes and stunning setbacks; or a happy, secure, predictable life surrounded by friends and family without such wide swings of fortune and mood? The latter.

27. If you knew your child would be severely retarded and would die by the age of five, would you decide to have an abortion. NO and I would prevent my wife from having one by any means other then killing her.

28. Someone you love deeply is brutally murdered and you know the identity of the murderer, who unfortunately is acquitted of the crime. Would you seek revenge? Yes because I believe justice must be done even if the courts fail to do so.

29. If you had to spend the next two years inside a small but fully provisioned Antarctic shelter with one other person, whom would like to have with you? Probably one of my parents or a best friend.

30. If you had the choice of one intimate soulmate and no other close friends, or of no such soulmate and many friends and acquaintances, which would you choose? The latter.

31. Would you be willing to do something very unsatisfying (for example, clean toilets) for five years if you were certain that the experience would afterwards bring you a deep sense of personal fulfillment for the rest of your life? No.

32. Would you be content with a marriage of the highest quality in all respects but one-it completely lacked sex? Yes, I wouldn't mind a platonic marriage.

33. You are leading a hundred people whose lives are in danger and you must choose between two courses of action. One would save only 90 people; the other would have a fifty percent chance of saving everyone but were it to fail everyone would die. Which would you choose? The former.

34. If you could prevent either an earthquake in Peru that would kill 40,000 people, a crash at your local airport that would kill two hundred people, or an automobile accident that would kill an acquaintance of yours, which would you choose? The one that would save the most amount of lives by far.

[RedAnarchist]

1. If a new medicine were developed that would cure arthritis but cause a fatal reaction in one percent of those who took it, would you want it to be released to the public? As long as all those who took it were aware of the risk then yes, it should be released to the public. If they are taking it voluntarily, then it is up to them whether or not they take such a risk.

2. You discover your wonderful one-year old child is, because of a mixup at the hospital, not yours. Would you want to exchange the child to try to correct the mistake? If the parents of the other child were involved, then yes.

3. You are given the power to kill people simply by thinking of their deaths and twice repeating the word "good-bye." People would die a natural death and no one would suspect you. Are there any situations in which you would use this power? Although I can think of thousands, if not millions of people I would gladly use this power against, I think it would only be right to use it in situations where that person meant to cause me immediate harm.

4. Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable yet unexciting private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a tolerable and uninspiring professional life. If the professional life is tolerable, then I would prefer the extremely happy private life.

5. If you knew of a way to use your estate following your death, to greatly benefit humanity, would you do it and leave only a minimal amount to your family? I most likely will not leave very much, but it would depend on what situation my family were in. I would try to balance it out.

6. If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you? Depends on whether it works or not. I suppose this is like the power described in Question 3 and, again, I would only use it for my own personal safety.

7. While on a trip to another city, your spouse (or lover) meets and spends a night with an exciting stranger. Given that they will never meet again, and that you will not otherwise learn of the incident, would you want your partner to tell you about it? If roles were reversed, would you reveal what you done? Yes and yes, as long as there are no lasting effects (STDs/pregnancy).

8. For an all-expense-paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off its wings? What about stepping on a cockroach? Yes and yes. It sounds mean, but why would the butterfly be spared when the cockroach wouldn't? Beauty shouldn't mean priviledge.

9. Would you be willing to murder an innocent person if it would end hunger in the world? I suppose if you could choose the person, then you could always choose someone who is in a vegetative state, terminally ill or fatally injured. If not, then I would at least explain to the person why they were going to die.

10. Would you rather be given $10,000 for your own use or $100,000 to give anonymously to strangers? What if you could keep $1,000,000 or give away $20,000,000. I suppose the good thing to do would be to give away the money, but I'm not a rich person and that much money would be a great help to me.

11. If you knew there would be a nuclear war in one week, what would you do? Try to warn people before stocking up supplies and heading as far away from all major cities as possible.

12. Someone very close to you is in pain, paralyzed, and will die within a month. He begs you to give him poison so that he can die. Would you? What if it were your father? Yes, because it is his choice and his right to be free of pain should be respected. I would not be responsible for his death just because I gave them access to poison. The same situation would apply if it was my father as well.

13. While parking late at night, you slightly scrape the side of a Porsche. You are certain no one else is aware of what happened. The damage is minor and would not be covered by insurance. Would you leave a note? No. Maybe if the damage was done on a cheaper car or the damage was more serious, but not in this situation.

14. Would you add one year to your life if it meant taking one year from the life of someone in the world selected at random? Would it matter if you were told whose life you had shortened? No, because you could be hit by a bus tomorrow and that person could die just as they were discovering a cure for cancer or something. It wouldn't matter if I was told who it was.

15. Assume there were a technological breakthrough that would allow people to travel as easily and cheaply between continents as between nearby cities. Unfortunately, there would also be 100,000 deaths a year from the device. Would you try to prevent it's use? If the risk is known to the public, then no. I would try to find ways of reducing the deaths, though.

16. You and a person you love deeply are placed in separate rooms with a button next to each of you. You know that you will both be killed unless one of you presses the button before sixty minutes pass; furthermore, the first to press the button will save the other person, but will immediately be killed. What do you do? Personally, I would probably not push the button at all, but would probably consider it in the last few minutes.

17. If you were to discover that your closest friend was a heroin dealer, what would you do? I would try and find out why they got involved in it, and try to get them out of that job. I wouldn't call the police on them, though.

18. Which of the following restrictions could you best tolerate: leaving the country permanently or never leaving the state in which you now live? Lancashire is quite small, as is the United Kingdom, so leaving the country permanently would be best.

19. Where would you choose to be if you could place yourself anywhere on a scale from one to ten, where one is hardship, struggle, and extraordinary accomplishment and ten is comfort, peace of mind, and no accomplishment. Why? Where are you now? Five as it's right in the middle. Now I'm probably at eight or nine.

20. While in the government, you discover the Prime Minister is commiting extortion and other serious crimes. By exposing the situation you might bring about the Prime Minister's downfall, but you career would be destroyed because you would be framed, fried, and publicly humiliated on other matters. Knowing you would vindicated five years later, would you blow the whistle? What if you knew you would never be vindicated. Yes and yes. Any chance to get rid of a corrupt politician is good.

21. If this country were to suffer an unprovoked nuclear attack and would be totally obiterated in a matter of minutes, would you favour unleashing the UK nuclear arsenal upon the attackers? Whilst this would be a superficial act of vengeance, I would do so.

22. If you were happily married, and then met someone you felt was certain to always bring you deeply passionate, intoxicating love, would you leave your spouse? What if you had kids? No and no. My interest in sex just isn't that great.

23. Assuming that complete recovery were instantaneous, would you be willing to accept a year of complete paralysis below the neck to prevent the otherwise certain extinction of the blue whale? Yes, because even if you are unable to move your body, your mind can still be active and there are devices which can be used for paralyzed people.

24. Do you believe in capital punishment? Would you be willing to execute a man sentenced to death by the courts if you were selected by lot to do so and he would go free if you refused? Assuming you know no details of the case. Murder is murder, no matter who the murderer is and no matter who the victim is. No, I wouldn't - I would rather see them go free than have their entire existence destroyed.

25. While out one day, you are surprised to see your mother holding hands with someone who is clearly her lover. She notices you, runs over, and begs you not to say anything to your father. How would you respond? What would you do if your father later told you that he was going crazy because he kept thinking your mother was having an affair yet knew it was just his imagination? I would be upset that my mother could cheat on my father (and vice versa). I would have to see who would suffer the most if the truth came out before deciding whether or not to tell my father.

26. Which would you prefer: a wild, turbulent life filled with joy, sorrow, passion, and adventure-intoxicating successes and stunning setbacks; or a happy, secure, predictable life surrounded by friends and family without such wide swings of fortune and mood? The second one.

27. If you knew your child would be severely retarded and would die by the age of five, would you decide to have an abortion. Being male, I cannot make that decision due to the fact that we don't carry the baby for 9 months. I would make sure my partner knew all of the facts before she decided whether or not to have an abortion, and would ask her to tell me her decision before carrying it out.

28. Someone you love deeply is brutally murdered and you know the identity of the murderer, who unfortunately is acquitted of the crime. Would you seek revenge? No, or else I would have to allow their loved ones to avenge them, which could cause my death. Vengeance causes nothing but a vicious cycle.

29. If you had to spend the next two years inside a small but fully provisioned Antarctic shelter with one other person, whom would like to have with you? Possibly one of my siblings or a friend I've known for years.

30. If you had the choice of one intimate soulmate and no other close friends, or of no such soulmate and many friends and acquaintances, which would you choose? The former. I don't need a lot of friends, and am quite happy with just one or two.

31. Would you be willing to do something very unsatisfying (for example, clean toilets) for five years if you were certain that the experience would afterwards bring you a deep sense of personal fulfillment for the rest of your life? No, because I could probably get a deep sense of personal fulfillment from something very satisfying.

32. Would you be content with a marriage of the highest quality in all respects but one-it completely lacked sex? Yes.

33. You are leading a hundred people whose lives are in danger and you must choose between two courses of action. One would save only 90 people; the other would have a fifty percent chance of saving everyone but were it to fail everyone would die. Which would you choose? The former, because it is a guaranteed way of saving more lives.

34. If you could prevent either an earthquake in Peru that would kill 40,000 people, a crash at your local airport that would kill two hundred people, or an automobile accident that would kill an acquaintance of yours, which would you choose? The earthquake, where far more people will die than in the other two scenarios.

[Demogorgon]

16. You and a person you love deeply are placed in separate rooms with a button next to each of you. You know that you will both be killed unless one of you presses the button before sixty minutes pass; furthermore, the first to press the button will save the other person, but will immediately be killed. What do you do? Wait for the other person to push the button.

I would wait for Batman to save us.

[New Tet]

6. If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you? Yes on evil people.

Sounds like the reasoning of a kid on meth who listens to way too much Led Zeppelin.

But really, this would be funnier if it weren't so sad.

[Comrade B]

1. If a new medicine were developed that would cure arthritis but cause a fatal reaction in one percent of those who took it, would you want it to be released to the public? Yes, no one is forcing you to take it.

2. You discover your wonderful one-year old child is, because of a mixup at the hospital, not yours. Would you want to exchange the child to try to correct the mistake? No, what, swap them for my biological child? Do genes matter that much?

3. You are given the power to kill people simply by thinking of their deaths and twice repeating the word "good-bye." People would die a natural death and no one would suspect you. Are there any situations in which you would use this power? yes

4. Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable yet unexciting private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a tolerable and uninspiring professional life. Happy private life

5. If you knew of a way to use your estate following your death, to greatly benefit humanity, would you do it and leave only a minimal amount to your family?
Yes

6. If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you?
Yes

7. While on a trip to another city, your spouse (or lover) meets and spends a night with an exciting stranger. Given that they will never meet again, and that you will not otherwise learn of the incident, would you want your partner to tell you about it? If roles were reversed, would you reveal what you done?
Yes and Yes

8. For an all-expense-paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off its wings? What about stepping on a cockroach?
No, Yes, I dislike roaches, kill even without a benefit

9. Would you be willing to murder an innocent person if it would end hunger in the world?
yes

10. Would you rather be given $10,000 for your own use or $100,000 to give anonymously to strangers? What if you could keep $1,000,000 or give away $20,000,000.
Give away give away

11. If you knew there would be a nuclear war in one week, what would you do?
Go for safety, try to get others to come

12. Someone very close to you is in pain, paralyzed, and will die within a month. He begs you to give him poison so that he can die. Would you? What if it were your father?
Yes yes

13. While parking late at night, you slightly scrape the side of a Porsche. You are certain no one else is aware of what happened. The damage is minor and would not be covered by insurance. Would you leave a note?
I would for any car, doesn't matter if they have a nice one or not

14. Would you add one year to your life if it meant taking one year from the life of someone in the world selected at random? Would it matter if you were told whose life you had shortened?
Nope, nope

15. Assume there were a technological breakthrough that would allow people to travel as easily and cheaply between continents as between nearby cities. Unfortunately, there would also be 100,000 deaths a year from the device. Would you try to prevent it's use?
Nope, cars are more dangerous

16. You and a person you love deeply are placed in separate rooms with a button next to each of you. You know that you will both be killed unless one of you presses the button before sixty minutes pass; furthermore, the first to press the button will save the other person, but will immediately be killed. What do you do?
Hope that we both die together, if I survive I would kill myself.

17. If you were to discover that your closest friend was a heroin dealer, what would you do?
Um... I know dealers....
Talk to them about it, try to get them selling less dangerous stuff

18. Which of the following restrictions could you best tolerate: leaving the country permanently or never leaving the state in which you now live?
Leaving the country permanently

19. Where would you choose to be if you could place yourself anywhere on a scale from one to ten, where one is hardship, struggle, and extraordinary accomplishment and ten is comfort, peace of mind, and no accomplishment. Why? Where are you now?
I would choose to be at 0, my admiration goes out to the martyrs of communism, would gladly join them if I knew it would create something. I am now at about 7 or 6.

20. While in the government, you discover the Prime Minister is commiting extortion and other serious crimes. By exposing the situation you might bring about the Prime Minister's downfall, but you career would be destroyed because you would be framed, fried, and publicly humiliated on other matters. Knowing you would vindicated five years later, would you blow the whistle? What if you knew you would never be vindicated.
If I would be vindicated 5 years later, I would reveal it, if not I would shoot the prime minister/president.

21. If this country were to suffer an unprovoked nuclear attack and would be totally obiterated in a matter of minutes, would you favour unleashing the UK(US?) nuclear arsenal upon the attackers?
If the attack could prevent a larger number of deaths, yes.

22. If you were happily married, and then met someone you felt was certain to always bring you deeply passionate, intoxicating love, would you leave your spouse? What if you had kids?
No clue, never had a good relationship

23. Assuming that complete recovery were instantaneous, would you be willing to accept a year of complete paralysis below the neck to prevent the otherwise certain extinction of the blue whale?
Sure, 1 year isn't so bad. Also, hippie babes would be all over me after that.

24. Do you believe in capital punishment? Would you be willing to execute a man sentenced to death by the courts if you were selected by lot to do so and he would go free if you refused? Assuming you know no details of the case.
Yes. No.

25. While out one day, you are surprised to see your mother holding hands with someone who is clearly her lover. She notices you, runs over, and begs you not to say anything to your father. How would you respond? What would you do if your father later told you that he was going crazy because he kept thinking your mother was having an affair yet knew it was just his imagination?
Can't imagine this happening with my parents, too weird.

26. Which would you prefer: a wild, turbulent life filled with joy, sorrow, passion, and adventure-intoxicating successes and stunning setbacks; or a happy, secure, predictable life surrounded by friends and family without such wide swings of fortune and mood?
Adventure and the likes, growing up in rural America, I have had enough of calmness, as childish and unwise as it sounds.

27. If you knew your child would be severely retarded and would die by the age of five, would you decide to have an abortion.
If the decision were on me, I would.

28. Someone you love deeply is brutally murdered and you know the identity of the murderer, who unfortunately is acquitted of the crime. Would you seek revenge?
Yes

29. If you had to spend the next two years inside a small but fully provisioned Antarctic shelter with one other person, whom would like to have with you?
Bad internet question, doesn't speak of personality, speaks of personal life.

30. If you had the choice of one intimate soulmate and no other close friends, or of no such soulmate and many friends and acquaintances, which would you choose?
Soulmate I guess

31. Would you be willing to do something very unsatisfying (for example, clean toilets) for five years if you were certain that the experience would afterwards bring you a deep sense of personal fulfillment for the rest of your life?
Yes

32. Would you be content with a marriage of the highest quality in all respects but one-it completely lacked sex?
Nope

33. You are leading a hundred people whose lives are in danger and you must choose between two courses of action. One would save only 90 people; the other would have a fifty percent chance of saving everyone but were it to fail everyone would die. Which would you choose?
See what the group as a whole wishes to do.

34. If you could prevent either an earthquake in Peru that would kill 40,000 people, a crash at your local airport that would kill two hundred people, or an automobile accident that would kill an acquaintance of yours, which would you choose?
car accident, I have some acquaintances I don't give a shit about.

[Robert]

1. If a new medicine were developed that would cure arthritis but cause a fatal reaction in one percent of those who took it, would you want it to be released to the public? Yes, especially if risk were disclosed.

2. You discover your wonderful one-year old child is, because of a mixup at the hospital, not yours. Would you want to exchange the child to try to correct the mistake? Yes.

3. You are given the power to kill people simply by thinking of their deaths and twice repeating the word "good-bye." People would die a natural death and no one would suspect you. Are there any situations in which you would use this power? No.

4. Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable yet unexciting private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a tolerable and uninspiring professional life. The latter.

5. If you knew of a way to use your estate following your death, to greatly benefit humanity, would you do it and leave only a minimal amount to your family? No.

6. If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you? No

7. While on a trip to another city, your spouse (or lover) meets and spends a night with an exciting stranger. Given that they will never meet again, and that you will not otherwise learn of the incident, would you want your partner to tell you about it? If roles were reversed, would you reveal what you done? Next question, please.

8. For an all-expense-paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off its wings? What about stepping on a cockroach? No.

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9. Would you be willing to murder an innocent person if it would end hunger in the world? No.

10. Would you rather be given $10,000 for your own use or $100,000 to give anonymously to strangers? What if you could keep $1,000,000 or give away $20,000,000. The $100k; the $1M.

11. If you knew there would be a nuclear war in one week, what would you do? Gather immediate family, create shelter.

12. Someone very close to you is in pain, paralyzed, and will die within a month. He begs you to give him poison so that he can die. Would you? What if it were your father? "Give"? You mean administer the poison? No.

13. While parking late at night, you slightly scrape the side of a Porsche. You are certain no one else is aware of what happened. The damage is minor and would not be covered by insurance. Would you leave a note? Yes.

14. Would you add one year to your life if it meant taking one year from the life of someone in the world selected at random? Would it matter if you were told whose life you had shortened? No. The random person could be a baby!

15. Assume there were a technological breakthrough that would allow people to travel as easily and cheaply between continents as between nearby cities. Unfortunately, there would also be 100,000 deaths a year from the device. Would you try to prevent it's use? No.

16. You and a person you love deeply are placed in separate rooms with a button next to each of you. You know that you will both be killed unless one of you presses the button before sixty minutes pass; furthermore, the first to press the button will save the other person, but will immediately be killed. What do you do? Push.

17. If you were to discover that your closest friend was a heroin dealer, what would you do? Tell him to flush it or find another friend.

18. Which of the following restrictions could you best tolerate: leaving the country permanently or never leaving the state in which you now live? Never leave.

19. Where would you choose to be if you could place yourself anywhere on a scale from one to ten, where one is hardship, struggle, and extraordinary accomplishment and ten is comfort, peace of mind, and no accomplishment. Why? Where are you now? Nine.

20. While in the government, you discover the President is commiting extortion and other serious crimes. By exposing the situation you might bring about the President's downfall, but you career would be destroyed because you would be framed, fried, and publicly humiliated on other matters. Knowing you would vindicated five years later, would you blow the whistle? What if you knew you would never be vindicated. No.

21. If this country were to suffer an unprovoked nuclear attack and would be totally obiterated in a matter of minutes, would you favour unleashing the U.S. nuclear arsenal upon the attackers? If that were guaranteed to prevent the attack? Yes.

22. If you were happily married, and then met someone you felt was certain to always bring you deeply passionate, intoxicating love, would you leave your spouse? What if you had kids? No (this was the easiest one.)

23. Assuming that complete recovery were instantaneous, would you be willing to accept a year of complete paralysis below the neck to prevent the otherwise certain extinction of the blue whale? No.

24. Do you believe in capital punishment? Would you be willing to execute a man sentenced to death by the courts if you were selected by lot to do so and he would go free if you refused? Assuming you know no details of the case. Yes to the first. No to the second; I need to be personally satisfied that he's guilty and that it was a particularly heinous crime. Otherwise, yes.

25. While out one day, you are surprised to see your mother holding hands with someone who is clearly her lover. She notices you, runs over, and begs you not to say anything to your father. How would you respond? What would you do if your father later told you that he was going crazy because he kept thinking your mother was having an affair yet knew it was just his imagination? Nothing. Disgusting question.

26. Which would you prefer: a wild, turbulent life filled with joy, sorrow, passion, and adventure-intoxicating successes and stunning setbacks; or a happy, secure, predictable life surrounded by friends and family without such wide swings of fortune and mood? The latter.

27. If you knew your child would be severely retarded and would die by the age of five, would you decide to have an abortion. No.

28. Someone you love deeply is brutally murdered and you know the identity of the murderer, who unfortunately is acquitted of the crime. Would you seek revenge? Yes.

29. If you had to spend the next two years inside a small but fully provisioned Antarctic shelter with one other person, whom would like to have with you? Wife.

30. If you had the choice of one intimate soulmate and no other close friends, or of no such soulmate and many friends and acquaintances, which would you choose? The former.

31. Would you be willing to do something very unsatisfying (for example, clean toilets) for five years if you were certain that the experience would afterwards bring you a deep sense of personal fulfillment for the rest of your life? Yes. But I didn't say clean toilets.

32. Would you be content with a marriage of the highest quality in all respects but one-it completely lacked sex? No.

33. You are leading a hundred people whose lives are in danger and you must choose between two courses of action. One would save only 90 people; the other would have a fifty percent chance of saving everyone but were it to fail everyone would die. Which would you choose? The former.

34. If you could prevent either an earthquake in Peru that would kill 40,000 people, a crash at your local airport that would kill two hundred people, or an automobile accident that would kill an acquaintance of yours, which would you choose? Stop Earthquake.

[Durruti's Ghost]

1. If a new medicine were developed that would cure arthritis but cause a fatal reaction in one percent of those who took it, would you want it to be released to the public? Yes.

2. You discover your wonderful one-year old child is, because of a mixup at the hospital, not yours. Would you want to exchange the child to try to correct the mistake? No.

3. You are given the power to kill people simply by thinking of their deaths and twice repeating the word "good-bye." People would die a natural death and no one would suspect you. Are there any situations in which you would use this power? Only in self-defense or defense of others. Does that even count?

4. Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable yet unexciting private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a tolerable and uninspiring professional life. Definitely the happy private life.

5. If you knew of a way to use your estate following your death, to greatly benefit humanity, would you do it and leave only a minimal amount to your family? Yes.

6. If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you? No.

7. While on a trip to another city, your spouse (or lover) meets and spends a night with an exciting stranger. Given that they will never meet again, and that you will not otherwise learn of the incident, would you want your partner to tell you about it? If roles were reversed, would you reveal what you done? Yes and yes.

8. For an all-expense-paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off its wings? What about stepping on a cockroach? No and no, oddly enough.

9. Would you be willing to murder an innocent person if it would end hunger in the world? Not unless the person consented, in which case it wouldn't be murder. Can the innocent person be myself? If so, yes.

10. Would you rather be given $10,000 for your own use or $100,000 to give anonymously to strangers? What if you could keep $1,000,000 or give away $20,000,000. Give away in both cases.

11. If you knew there would be a nuclear war in one week, what would you do? Go underground, trying to save as many people as possible.

12. Someone very close to you is in pain, paralyzed, and will die within a month. He begs you to give him poison so that he can die. Would you? What if it were your father? Yes in both cases.

13. While parking late at night, you slightly scrape the side of a Porsche. You are certain no one else is aware of what happened. The damage is minor and would not be covered by insurance. Would you leave a note? Yes.

14. Would you add one year to your life if it meant taking one year from the life of someone in the world selected at random? Would it matter if you were told whose life you had shortened? No and no.

15. Assume there were a technological breakthrough that would allow people to travel as easily and cheaply between continents as between nearby cities. Unfortunately, there would also be 100,000 deaths a year from the device. Would you try to prevent it's use? No.

16. You and a person you love deeply are placed in separate rooms with a button next to each of you. You know that you will both be killed unless one of you presses the button before sixty minutes pass; furthermore, the first to press the button will save the other person, but will immediately be killed. What do you do? I push the button immediately.

17. If you were to discover that your closest friend was a heroin dealer, what would you do? Depends on the circumstances.

18. Which of the following restrictions could you best tolerate: leaving the country permanently or never leaving the state in which you now live? Leaving the country permanently.

19. Where would you choose to be if you could place yourself anywhere on a scale from one to ten, where one is hardship, struggle, and extraordinary accomplishment and ten is comfort, peace of mind, and no accomplishment. Why? Where are you now? 1; 7.

20. While in the government, you discover the Prime Minister is committing extortion and other serious crimes. By exposing the situation you might bring about the Prime Minister's downfall, but you career would be destroyed because you would be framed, fried, and publicly humiliated on other matters. Knowing you would vindicated five years later, would you blow the whistle? What if you knew you would never be vindicated. Yes and yes.

21. If this country were to suffer an unprovoked nuclear attack and would be totally obiterated in a matter of minutes, would you favour unleashing the UK nuclear arsenal upon the attackers? NO.

22. If you were happily married, and then met someone you felt was certain to always bring you deeply passionate, intoxicating love, would you leave your spouse? What if you had kids? If I'm happily married, I'm already in deeply passionate, intoxicating love. So no and no.

23. Assuming that complete recovery were instantaneous, would you be willing to accept a year of complete paralysis below the neck to prevent the otherwise certain extinction of the blue whale? Yes.

24. Do you believe in capital punishment? Would you be willing to execute a man sentenced to death by the courts if you were selected by lot to do so and he would go free if you refused? Assuming you know no details of the case. No and no.

25. While out one day, you are surprised to see your mother holding hands with someone who is clearly her lover. She notices you, runs over, and begs you not to say anything to your father. How would you respond? What would you do if your father later told you that he was going crazy because he kept thinking your mother was having an affair yet knew it was just his imagination? I'd keep her secret, but I'd also urge her to tell my father the truth.

26. Which would you prefer: a wild, turbulent life filled with joy, sorrow, passion, and adventure-intoxicating successes and stunning setbacks; or a happy, secure, predictable life surrounded by friends and family without such wide swings of fortune and mood? The first.

27. If you knew your child would be severely retarded and would die by the age of five, would you decide to have an abortion. It's not my choice, it's my partner's. Leaving that aside, though, I would certainly be in favor of the abortion in this case.

28. Someone you love deeply is brutally murdered and you know the identity of the murderer, who unfortunately is acquitted of the crime. Would you seek revenge? I honestly don't know.

29. If you had to spend the next two years inside a small but fully provisioned Antarctic shelter with one other person, whom would like to have with you? Someone with whom I am deeply in love.

30. If you had the choice of one intimate soulmate and no other close friends, or of no such soulmate and many friends and acquaintances, which would you choose? Soulmate.

31. Would you be willing to do something very unsatisfying (for example, clean toilets) for five years if you were certain that the experience would afterwards bring you a deep sense of personal fulfillment for the rest of your life? Yes.

32. Would you be content with a marriage of the highest quality in all respects but one-it completely lacked sex? I hate to say it, but probably not.

33. You are leading a hundred people whose lives are in danger and you must choose between two courses of action. One would save only 90 people; the other would have a fifty percent chance of saving everyone but were it to fail everyone would die. Which would you choose? Let the people decide.

34. If you could prevent either an earthquake in Peru that would kill 40,000 people, a crash at your local airport that would kill two hundred people, or an automobile accident that would kill an acquaintance of yours, which would you choose? Peruvian earthquake.

[Comrade B]

Got the earth quake question wrong, I would prevent the earth quake. I thought it was which of the disasters would you prefer to have happen

[New Tet]

Got the earth quake question wrong, I would prevent the earth quake. I thought it was which of the disasters would you prefer to have happen

The Lathe of Heaven (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lathe_of_Heaven)

[Ele'ill]

I LOVE these types of threads and there has been a lot of them lately.




1. If a new medicine were developed that would cure arthritis but cause a fatal reaction in one percent of those who took it, would you want it to be released to the public? I would as long as documentation was released in regards to the side affects and risks.

2. You discover your wonderful one-year old child is, because of a mixup at the hospital, not yours. Would you want to exchange the child to try to correct the mistake? Yes because it wouldn't be fair to the child's real parents. But what if I were the better parent? But what if I were to die suddenly when the child wasn't a child but was still only a teen and the child's parents were still alive and better parents than I would have been had I not died suddenly?

3. You are given the power to kill people simply by thinking of their deaths and twice repeating the word "good-bye." People would die a natural death and no one would suspect you. Are there any situations in which you would use this power? pfft. I already HAVE this power.

4. Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable yet unexciting private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a tolerable and uninspiring professional life. I'd want an exciting personal life.

5. If you knew of a way to use your estate following your death, to greatly benefit humanity, would you do it and leave only a minimal amount to your family? Yeah, because at some point in time my family would become the future-future humanity.

6. If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you? No.

7. While on a trip to another city, your spouse (or lover) meets and spends a night with an exciting stranger. Given that they will never meet again, and that you will not otherwise learn of the incident, would you want your partner to tell you about it? If roles were reversed, would you reveal what you done? Yes. Yes. Yes.

8. For an all-expense-paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off its wings? What about stepping on a cockroach? No.

9. Would you be willing to murder an innocent person if it would end hunger in the world? I'd run it past the person first. It really depends on how easily I could live with their murder. If they were an obnoxious asshole I could probably do it quite easily. And then move onto their family.

10. Would you rather be given $10,000 for your own use or $100,000 to give anonymously to strangers? What if you could keep $1,000,000 or give away $20,000,000. The 10k to me would be used to help me live where the 100k to a stranger might be used for something idiotic like a car or three. I'd rather take money first decide later. :D

11. If you knew there would be a nuclear war in one week, what would you do? I would write a poem.

12. Someone very close to you is in pain, paralyzed, and will die within a month. He begs you to give him poison so that he can die. Would you? What if it were your father? Probably not. Depends on what kind of mood I was in?

13. While parking late at night, you slightly scrape the side of a Porsche. You are certain no one else is aware of what happened. The damage is minor and would not be covered by insurance. Would you leave a note? No.

14. Would you add one year to your life if it meant taking one year from the life of someone in the world selected at random? Would it matter if you were told whose life you had shortened? I would require whose life it was and their background. Even then probably not. I want to live a normal life.



15. Assume there were a technological breakthrough that would allow people to travel as easily and cheaply between continents as between nearby cities. Unfortunately, there would also be 100,000 deaths a year from the device. Would you try to prevent it's use? Yes and no. Yes if the entity that created the device tried to hide the data.

16. You and a person you love deeply are placed in separate rooms with a button next to each of you. You know that you will both be killed unless one of you presses the button before sixty minutes pass; furthermore, the first to press the button will save the other person, but will immediately be killed. What do you do? Wait. Maybe something will malfunction.

17. If you were to discover that your closest friend was a heroin dealer, what would you do? Talk to them.


18. Which of the following restrictions could you best tolerate: leaving the country permanently or never leaving the state in which you now live? Leaving the country. I've lived here and traveled here long enough to remember it forever.

19. Where would you choose to be if you could place yourself anywhere on a scale from one to ten, where one is hardship, struggle, and extraordinary accomplishment and ten is comfort, peace of mind, and no accomplishment. Why? Where are you now? I'm at a two or three right now. It feels good. It fits who I am so I can stay here.

20. While in the government, you discover the President is commiting extortion and other serious crimes. By exposing the situation you might bring about the President's downfall, but you career would be destroyed because you would be framed, fried, and publicly humiliated on other matters. Knowing you would vindicated five years later, would you blow the whistle? What if you knew you would never be vindicated. Yep.

21. If this country were to suffer an unprovoked nuclear attack and would be totally obiterated in a matter of minutes, would you favour unleashing the U.S. nuclear arsenal upon the attackers? Depends on how many attackers there were. One person? Ten? A country? What about civilian casualties?

22. If you were happily married, and then met someone you felt was certain to always bring you deeply passionate, intoxicating love, would you leave your spouse? What if you had kids? This never happens. That type of person is never good for you.

23. Assuming that complete recovery were instantaneous, would you be willing to accept a year of complete paralysis below the neck to prevent the otherwise certain extinction of the blue whale? Fuck yeah. Why the hell not?

24. Do you believe in capital punishment? Would you be willing to execute a man sentenced to death by the courts if you were selected by lot to do so and he would go free if you refused? Assuming you know no details of the case. Under current conditions? No and No.

25. While out one day, you are surprised to see your mother holding hands with someone who is clearly her lover. She notices you, runs over, and begs you not to say anything to your father. How would you respond? What would you do if your father later told you that he was going crazy because he kept thinking your mother was having an affair yet knew it was just his imagination? If my father told me he was going crazy because he thought she was having an affair I would tell him the truth. Other wise I would talk to my mother.

26. Which would you prefer: a wild, turbulent life filled with joy, sorrow, passion, and adventure-intoxicating successes and stunning setbacks; or a happy, secure, predictable life surrounded by friends and family without such wide swings of fortune and mood? The first has been it.

27. If you knew your child would be severely retarded and would die by the age of five, would you decide to have an abortion. What does my wife think?

28. Someone you love deeply is brutally murdered and you know the identity of the murderer, who unfortunately is acquitted of the crime. Would you seek revenge? Like a fucking dehydrated yellow jacket sucked into a biker's sleeveless shirt at the onset of autumn.

29. If you had to spend the next two years inside a small but fully provisioned Antarctic shelter with one other person, whom would like to have with you? Moira Kelly.
(http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=6&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Fname%2Fnm0446702%2 F&ei=BvWdStrqHJKDlgekpuSDBw&rct=j&q=moira+kelly&usg=AFQjCNF0RiAMN3pHjy2eK7UxYJEyoB6mAA)







30. If you had the choice of one intimate soulmate and no other close friends, or of no such soulmate and many friends and acquaintances, which would you choose? The last.

31. Would you be willing to do something very unsatisfying (for example, clean toilets) for five years if you were certain that the experience would afterwards bring you a deep sense of personal fulfillment for the rest of your life? This doesn't make any sense at all. If I knew it would bring me fulfillment I would probably get fulfillment in doing it because of the knowing of future fulfillment.

32. Would you be content with a marriage of the highest quality in all respects but one-it completely lacked sex? I don't know. I have never been in a sexless relationship.

33. You are leading a hundred people whose lives are in danger and you must choose between two courses of action. One would save only 90 people; the other would have a fifty percent chance of saving everyone but were it to fail everyone would die. Which would you choose? What's the purpose of this mission or escape? The first I think.

34. If you could prevent either an earthquake in Peru that would kill 40,000 people, a crash at your local airport that would kill two hundred people, or an automobile accident that would kill an acquaintance of yours, which would you choose?

I would let them all die.

[Havet]

1. If a new medicine were developed that would cure arthritis but cause a fatal reaction in one percent of those who took it, would you want it to be released to the public? Yes

2. You discover your wonderful one-year old child is, because of a mixup at the hospital, not yours. Would you want to exchange the child to try to correct the mistake? Yes

3. You are given the power to kill people simply by thinking of their deaths and twice repeating the word "good-bye." People would die a natural death and no one would suspect you. Are there any situations in which you would use this power? Only against those who were in a given instant trying to kill me.

4. Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable yet unexciting private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a tolerable and uninspiring professional life. I'd rather have both

5. If you knew of a way to use your estate following your death, to greatly benefit humanity, would you do it and leave only a minimal amount to your family? You can only save one person at a time. All else is grandiose romanticism or politics. Therefore, i'd choose whom I'd give it.

6. If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you? Voodoo dolls can't hurt anyone.

7. While on a trip to another city, your spouse (or lover) meets and spends a night with an exciting stranger. Given that they will never meet again, and that you will not otherwise learn of the incident, would you want your partner to tell you about it? If roles were reversed, would you reveal what you done? Yes

8. For an all-expense-paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off its wings? What about stepping on a cockroach? I cant possibly devise a scenario where one affects the other, so I'd rather leave the insects alone.

9. Would you be willing to murder an innocent person if it would end hunger in the world? No, and that scenario is impossible.

10. Would you rather be given $10,000 for your own use or $100,000 to give anonymously to strangers? What if you could keep $1,000,000 or give away $20,000,000. Be given the money, generate more and then use some to help.

11. If you knew there would be a nuclear war in one week, what would you do? Build underground Vaults and sell them at a whopping profit :D:D. Just joking. I'd probably try to find a safe place and continue my life and my goals.

12. Someone very close to you is in pain, paralyzed, and will die within a month. He begs you to give him poison so that he can die. Would you? What if it were your father? Yes, but i'd need proof (either written or recorded) that it was in fact that person's wish.

13. While parking late at night, you slightly scrape the side of a Porsche. You are certain no one else is aware of what happened. The damage is minor and would not be covered by insurance. Would you leave a note? No idea. Depends on my financial condition.

14. Would you add one year to your life if it meant taking one year from the life of someone in the world selected at random? Would it matter if you were told whose life you had shortened? No i wouldn't

15. Assume there were a technological breakthrough that would allow people to travel as easily and cheaply between continents as between nearby cities. Unfortunately, there would also be 100,000 deaths a year from the device. Would you try to prevent it's use? Allow the technological breakthrough and let people decide whether or not they're willing to take the risk.

16. You and a person you love deeply are placed in separate rooms with a button next to each of you. You know that you will both be killed unless one of you presses the button before sixty minutes pass; furthermore, the first to press the button will save the other person, but will immediately be killed. What do you do? Wait for the other person to push the button.

17. If you were to discover that your closest friend was a heroin dealer, what would you do? Congratulate him on the business, but advise against the personal use of such drug.

18. Which of the following restrictions could you best tolerate: leaving the country permanently or never leaving the state in which you now live? Leaving the country permanently

19. Where would you choose to be if you could place yourself anywhere on a scale from one to ten, where one is hardship, struggle, and extraordinary accomplishment and ten is comfort, peace of mind, and no accomplishment. Why? Where are you now? I would place myself at 1, and right now I am at around 8.

20. While in the government, you discover the President is commiting extortion and other serious crimes. By exposing the situation you might bring about the President's downfall, but you career would be destroyed because you would be framed, fried, and publicly humiliated on other matters. Knowing you would vindicated five years later, would you blow the whistle? What if you knew you would never be vindicated. Yes on both

21. If this country were to suffer an unprovoked nuclear attack and would be totally obiterated in a matter of minutes, would you favour unleashing the U.S. nuclear arsenal upon the attackers? Hard issue really. The nukes should only be used directly at the entities which are performing the attack, so i'd only allow the nukes to reach the government. If it were possible to use the nukes to prevent the incoming news from hurting anybody then that would be my first choice.


22. If you were happily married, and then met someone you felt was certain to always bring you deeply passionate, intoxicating love, would you leave your spouse? What if you had kids? I would never marry, and if I did, I would have talked of that situation prior to the commitment.

23. Assuming that complete recovery were instantaneous, would you be willing to accept a year of complete paralysis below the neck to prevent the otherwise certain extinction of the blue whale? How the hell could one affect the other? Sure, whatever, one year isn't a lifetime, save the godamn whales then.

24. Do you believe in capital punishment? Would you be willing to execute a man sentenced to death by the courts if you were selected by lot to do so and he would go free if you refused? Assuming you know no details of the case. No capital punishment

25. While out one day, you are surprised to see your mother holding hands with someone who is clearly her lover. She notices you, runs over, and begs you not to say anything to your father. How would you respond? What would you do if your father later told you that he was going crazy because he kept thinking your mother was having an affair yet knew it was just his imagination? I wouldnt respond anything. Its their business and they are grown up people. Let them talk about it between themselves.

26. Which would you prefer: a wild, turbulent life filled with joy, sorrow, passion, and adventure-intoxicating successes and stunning setbacks; or a happy, secure, predictable life surrounded by friends and family without such wide swings of fortune and mood? The former

27. If you knew your child would be severely retarded and would die by the age of five, would you decide to have an abortion. Yes, I wouldn't want to make a future child suffer that much and live so little.

28. Someone you love deeply is brutally murdered and you know the identity of the murderer, who unfortunately is acquitted of the crime. Would you seek revenge? Yes, but the revenge would be severe aggression and not death. Possibly tie him in a boat and send him through the ocean.

29. If you had to spend the next two years inside a small but fully provisioned Antarctic shelter with one other person, whom would like to have with you? Does it really have to be a human? Oh well... A best friend then.

30. If you had the choice of one intimate soulmate and no other close friends, or of no such soulmate and many friends and acquaintances, which would you choose? None.

31. Would you be willing to do something very unsatisfying (for example, clean toilets) for five years if you were certain that the experience would afterwards bring you a deep sense of personal fulfillment for the rest of your life? I would only do something unsatisfying if I new I could use that to do something satisfying later.

32. Would you be content with a marriage of the highest quality in all respects but one-it completely lacked sex? I'd never marry, but I wouldnt matter to be with a woman I loved without having sex.

33. You are leading a hundred people whose lives are in danger and you must choose between two courses of action. One would save only 90 people; the other would have a fifty percent chance of saving everyone but were it to fail everyone would die. Which would you choose? None. I would not dictate. I could make suggestions, and people could choose to accept it or not, But I would not dictate their actions.

34. If you could prevent either an earthquake in Peru that would kill 40,000 people, a crash at your local airport that would kill two hundred people, or an automobile accident that would kill an acquaintance of yours, which would you choose? What am i, superman? If i can help, i'll try to help the option where most lives can be saved.

Some questions here are very strange...

[Forward Union]

29. If you had to spend the next two years inside a small but fully provisioned Antarctic shelter with one other person, whom would like to have with you? Probably one of my parents or a best friend.
You're a massive fuckign loser

[Richard Nixon]

You're a massive fuckign loser

:confused: Also reported and ignore.

[Plagueround]

3. You are given the power to kill people simply by thinking of their deaths and twice repeating the word "good-bye." People would die a natural death and no one would suspect you. Are there any situations in which you would use this power? For criminals and dictators yes. For instance I could end the War on Terrorism by simultenously killing all the members of Al-Qaeda.


AHAHAHAHAHA. Not only would you need the names of every single member, but you would have to live under the delusion that this would end the war on terrorism. The "war on terrorism" has been a pillar of american life since the days when it was called "manifest destiny". The war on terrorism will only end when america stops perpetuating it.

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

1. If a new medicine were developed that would cure arthritis but cause a fatal reaction in one percent of those who took it, would you want it to be released to the public? Yes.

2. You discover your wonderful one-year old child is, because of a mixup at the hospital, not yours. Would you want to exchange the child to try to correct the mistake? No.

3. You are given the power to kill people simply by thinking of their deaths and twice repeating the word "good-bye." People would die a natural death and no one would suspect you. Are there any situations in which you would use this power? Many.

4. Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable yet unexciting private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a tolerable and uninspiring professional life. Private life.

5. If you knew of a way to use your estate following your death, to greatly benefit humanity, would you do it and leave only a minimal amount to your family? Yes unless my family was broke at the time of my death.

6. If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you?
Yes.

7. While on a trip to another city, your spouse (or lover) meets and spends a night with an exciting stranger. Given that they will never meet again, and that you will not otherwise learn of the incident, would you want your partner to tell you about it? If roles were reversed, would you reveal what you done? Yup for both if we had agreed not to sleep with other people

8. For an all-expense-paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off its wings? What about stepping on a cockroach? Id do it for free

9. Would you be willing to murder an innocent person if it would end hunger in the world? Yes

10. Would you rather be given $10,000 for your own use or $100,000 to give anonymously to strangers? What if you could keep $1,000,000 or give away $20,000,000. I would keep it

11. If you knew there would be a nuclear war in one week, what would you do? Fuck off somewhere that probably wont be nuked


12. Someone very close to you is in pain, paralyzed, and will die within a month. He begs you to give him poison so that he can die. Would you? What if it were your father? Yes.

13. While parking late at night, you slightly scrape the side of a Porsche. You are certain no one else is aware of what happened. The damage is minor and would not be covered by insurance. Would you leave a note? No I would get out and key it.

14. Would you add one year to your life if it meant taking one year from the life of someone in the world selected at random? Would it matter if you were told whose life you had shortened? Absolutely not.

15. Assume there were a technological breakthrough that would allow people to travel as easily and cheaply between continents as between nearby cities. Unfortunately, there would also be 100,000 deaths a year from the device. Would you try to prevent it's use? Would have to do some reaserch first.

16. You and a person you love deeply are placed in separate rooms with a button next to each of you. You know that you will both be killed unless one of you presses the button before sixty minutes pass; furthermore, the first to press the button will save the other person, but will immediately be killed. What do you do? Im deeply in love with myself so im fucked whatever happens.

17. If you were to discover that your closest friend was a heroin dealer, what would you do? Flush it down the shitter and get him to sort himself or herself out.


18. Which of the following restrictions could you best tolerate: leaving the country permanently or never leaving the state in which you now live? Leaving permanently

19. Where would you choose to be if you could place yourself anywhere on a scale from one to ten, where one is hardship, struggle, and extraordinary accomplishment and ten is comfort, peace of mind, and no accomplishment. Why? Where are you now? Four

20. While in the government, you discover the President is commiting extortion and other serious crimes. By exposing the situation you might bring about the President's downfall, but you career would be destroyed because you would be framed, fried, and publicly humiliated on other matters. Knowing you would vindicated five years later, would you blow the whistle? What if you knew you would never be vindicated. No I would blackmail him for large amounts of money and political gain in both circumstances.

21. If this country were to suffer an unprovoked nuclear attack and would be totally obiterated in a matter of minutes, would you favour unleashing the U.S. nuclear arsenal upon the attackers? No.

22. If you were happily married, and then met someone you felt was certain to always bring you deeply passionate, intoxicating love, would you leave your spouse? What if you had kids? No.

23. Assuming that complete recovery were instantaneous, would you be willing to accept a year of complete paralysis below the neck to prevent the otherwise certain extinction of the blue whale? No.

24. Do you believe in capital punishment? Would you be willing to execute a man sentenced to death by the courts if you were selected by lot to do so and he would go free if you refused? Assuming you know no details of the case. Yes in the hands of propper Communists and no unless I had a personal grudge against that person.

25. While out one day, you are surprised to see your mother holding hands with someone who is clearly her lover. She notices you, runs over, and begs you not to say anything to your father. How would you respond? What would you do if your father later told you that he was going crazy because he kept thinking your mother was having an affair yet knew it was just his imagination? I would think that they are both mental cases as my parents havnt lived together for a long time.

26. Which would you prefer: a wild, turbulent life filled with joy, sorrow, passion, and adventure-intoxicating successes and stunning setbacks; or a happy, secure, predictable life surrounded by friends and family without such wide swings of fortune and mood? First

27. If you knew your child would be severely retarded and would die by the age of five, would you decide to have an abortion. Woman's choice, not my womb.

28. Someone you love deeply is brutally murdered and you know the identity of the murderer, who unfortunately is acquitted of the crime. Would you seek revenge? Yes.


29. If you had to spend the next two years inside a small but fully provisioned Antarctic shelter with one other person, whom would like to have with you? Someone attractive and well up for it

30. If you had the choice of one intimate soulmate and no other close friends, or of no such soulmate and many friends and acquaintances, which would you choose? Friends

31. Would you be willing to do something very unsatisfying (for example, clean toilets) for five years if you were certain that the experience would afterwards bring you a deep sense of personal fulfillment for the rest of your life? No.

32. Would you be content with a marriage of the highest quality in all respects but one-it completely lacked sex? No.

33. You are leading a hundred people whose lives are in danger and you must choose between two courses of action. One would save only 90 people; the other would have a fifty percent chance of saving everyone but were it to fail everyone would die. Which would you choose? 90%

34. If you could prevent either an earthquake in Peru that would kill 40,000 people, a crash at your local airport that would kill two hundred people, or an automobile accident that would kill an acquaintance of yours, which would you choose? Do I like the acquaintance?

[Richard Nixon]

20. While in the government, you discover the President is commiting extortion and other serious crimes. By exposing the situation you might bring about the President's downfall, but you career would be destroyed because you would be framed, fried, and publicly humiliated on other matters. Knowing you would vindicated five years later, would you blow the whistle? What if you knew you would never be vindicated. No I would blackmail him for large amounts of money and political gain in both circumstances.


Very uncommunistic in my opinion and also very immoral.



24. Do you believe in capital punishment? Would you be willing to execute a man sentenced to death by the courts if you were selected by lot to do so and he would go free if you refused? Assuming you know no details of the case. Yes in the hands of propper Communists and no unless I had a personal grudge against that person.

I think it is self-contradictory if you do believe in capital punishment but refuse to execute someone convicted by the courts yourself.

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

^


1. Being a greedy bastard does not = not a communist I would would give alot of the money to Communist orgs as well as blackmailing to secure the release of present and future political prisoners and similar things like that.

2. I dont think the capitalist state should be trusted with the death penalty and I also think it would be counter productive to restrict what a revolutionary movement could do in practical terms.

[Jazzratt]

1. If a new medicine were developed that would cure arthritis but cause a fatal reaction in one percent of those who took it, would you want it to be released to the public?

I really have a problem with this question. Does it somehow kill a random 1% of the population or is there a way of knowing beforehand if someone is at risk from the fatal effects? If it's the former then I would advise against distributing it, if it the latter then it should of course be made available to those not in at risk groups.


3. You are given the power to kill people simply by thinking of their deaths and twice repeating the word "good-bye." People would die a natural death and no one would suspect you. Are there any situations in which you would use this power? For criminals and dictators yes. For instance I could end the War on Terrorism by simultenously killing all the members of Al-Qaeda.

That's stupid. Surely this power relies on you at least knowing enough about someone to imagine what their death would be like, presumably this includes things like knowing what they fucking well look like. Anyway this is one of those boring hypothetical questions where there is no earthly reason to answer "no".


4. Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable yet unexciting private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a tolerable and uninspiring professional life. I'd prefer a good professional life.

I'd rather not end up slitting my wrists come middle age, but each to their own I suppose.


6. If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you? Yes on evil people.

:lol:


7. While on a trip to another city, your spouse (or lover) meets and spends a night with an exciting stranger. Given that they will never meet again, and that you will not otherwise learn of the incident, would you want your partner to tell you about it? If roles were reversed, would you reveal what you done?

Not really sure, probably and yes, of course.


12. Someone very close to you is in pain, paralyzed, and will die within a month. He begs you to give him poison so that he can die. Would you? What if it were your father? No and no.

Why the fuck not? You are one cruel bastard.


13. While parking late at night, you slightly scrape the side of a Porsche. You are certain no one else is aware of what happened. The damage is minor and would not be covered by insurance. Would you leave a note?

I'd get out and key the fucker before sodding off. In for a penny, after all.


15. Assume there were a technological breakthrough that would allow people to travel as easily and cheaply between continents as between nearby cities. Unfortunately, there would also be 100,000 deaths a year from the device. Would you try to prevent it's use? No, as such inventions as the automobile or the airplane cause a lot of deaths from accidents. I'd try to regulate it but not stop it.

Automobiles and areoplanes do not cause the deaths as a fact of their existance though. This hypothetical method of travel is just not worth the cost.


16. You and a person you love deeply are placed in separate rooms with a button next to each of you. You know that you will both be killed unless one of you presses the button before sixty minutes pass; furthermore, the first to press the button will save the other person, but will immediately be killed. What do you do?

I'll give them half an hour to press it, otherwise I'll bite the bullet.


17. If you were to discover that your closest friend was a heroin dealer, what would you do? Call the police, the USA is a nation of laws.

A nation of laws and apparently shiftless dickheads. I'd ask if they sold any "softer" drugs, personally.


21. If this country were to suffer an unprovoked nuclear attack and would be totally obiterated in a matter of minutes, would you favour unleashing the U.S. nuclear arsenal upon the attackers? Yes.

For what possible utility? Your country is already fried, why bother with retaliation?


23. Assuming that complete recovery were instantaneous, would you be willing to accept a year of complete paralysis below the neck to prevent the otherwise certain extinction of the blue whale? No.

I would. At the very least it's a year off work, no?


25. While out one day, you are surprised to see your mother holding hands with someone who is clearly her lover. She notices you, runs over, and begs you not to say anything to your father. How would you respond? What would you do if your father later told you that he was going crazy because he kept thinking your mother was having an affair yet knew it was just his imagination? I would tell my father the truth and have a detective film the evidence to help him in his divorce trial.

I, on the other hand, would choose not to be a snitching little ****.


27. If you knew your child would be severely retarded and would die by the age of five, would you decide to have an abortion. NO and I would prevent my wife from having one by any means other then killing her.

You scare me...


28. Someone you love deeply is brutally murdered and you know the identity of the murderer, who unfortunately is acquitted of the crime. Would you seek revenge? Yes because I believe justice must be done even if the courts fail to do so.

...a whole hell of a lot.

[Muzk]

2. You discover your wonderful one-year old child is, because of a mixup at the hospital, not yours. Would you want to exchange the child to try to correct the mistake? Yes, I'd think my genes are better than the ones of everyone else. Hehe, I want my children to be just as me, and succeed where I have failed.

3. You are given the power to kill people simply by thinking of their deaths and twice repeating the word "good-bye." People would die a natural death and no one would suspect you. Are there any situations in which you would use this power? Noone should have such a power.

5. If you knew of a way to use your estate following your death, to greatly benefit humanity, would you do it and leave only a minimal amount to your family? Entirely.

6. If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you? No.

7. While on a trip to another city, your spouse (or lover) meets and spends a night with an exciting stranger. Given that they will never meet again, and that you will not otherwise learn of the incident, would you want your partner to tell you about it? If roles were reversed, would you reveal what you done? Yes + it depends on the personallity of her.

8. For an all-expense-paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off its wings? What about stepping on a cockroach? No. Less about the animal, more about the useless wasted time

10. Would you rather be given $10,000 for your own use or $100,000 to give anonymously to strangers? What if you could keep $1,000,000 or give away $20,000,000. Who knows who might get this money? And since there is only as much money as there are goods and services, this seems kind of useless, considering I don't even know what to do with such a lot...

11. If you knew there would be a nuclear war in one week, what would you do? Stop it. Somehow. Or die trying.

12. Someone very close to you is in pain, paralyzed, and will die within a month. He begs you to give him poison so that he can die. Would you? What if it were your father? Yes.

13. While parking late at night, you slightly scrape the side of a Porsche. You are certain no one else is aware of what happened. The damage is minor and would not be covered by insurance. Would you leave a note? I would leave a paper saying "fuck you"

16. You and a person you love deeply are placed in separate rooms with a button next to each of you. You know that you will both be killed unless one of you presses the button before sixty minutes pass; furthermore, the first to press the button will save the other person, but will immediately be killed. What do you do? Since I can't talk to them and tell them to finish what I've never started, I'd wait and in the end just... hit it.

17. If you were to discover that your closest friend was a heroin dealer, what would you do? I don't care.

18. Which of the following restrictions could you best tolerate: leaving the country permanently or never leaving the state in which you now live? Leaving the country permanently, knowing different languages rules

19. Where would you choose to be if you could place yourself anywhere on a scale from one to ten, where one is hardship, struggle, and extraordinary accomplishment and ten is comfort, peace of mind, and no accomplishment. Why? Where are you now? Three?

21. If this country were to suffer an unprovoked nuclear attack and would be totally obiterated in a matter of minutes, would you favour unleashing the U.S. nuclear arsenal upon the attackers? No. USA should be exterminated. But then it really depends on WHY it is attacked. This does not involve the people. Although for some of them all hope is lost...

22. If you were happily married, and then met someone you felt was certain to always bring you deeply passionate, intoxicating love, would you leave your spouse? What if you had kids? I am not going to leave my children like my father did.

23. Assuming that complete recovery were instantaneous, would you be willing to accept a year of complete paralysis below the neck to prevent the otherwise certain extinction of the blue whale? Probably

26. Which would you prefer: a wild, turbulent life filled with joy, sorrow, passion, and adventure-intoxicating successes and stunning setbacks; or a happy, secure, predictable life surrounded by friends and family without such wide swings of fortune and mood? 1.

27. If you knew your child would be severely retarded and would die by the age of five, would you decide to have an abortion. Yes. Such a life sucks.

28. Someone you love deeply is brutally murdered and you know the identity of the murderer, who unfortunately is acquitted of the crime. Would you seek revenge? Self justice sucks. So no.

29. If you had to spend the next two years inside a small but fully provisioned Antarctic shelter with one other person, whom would like to have with you? A communist woman.

30. If you had the choice of one intimate soulmate and no other close friends, or of no such soulmate and many friends and acquaintances, which would you choose? Soulmate

31. Would you be willing to do something very unsatisfying (for example, clean toilets) for five years if you were certain that the experience would afterwards bring you a deep sense of personal fulfillment for the rest of your life? Yes

33. You are leading a hundred people whose lives are in danger and you must choose between two courses of action. One would save only 90 people; the other would have a fifty percent chance of saving everyone but were it to fail everyone would die. Which would you choose? 1. of course. Some would volunteer.. or we pick the older ones.

34. If you could prevent either an earthquake in Peru that would kill 40,000 people, a crash at your local airport that would kill two hundred people, or an automobile accident that would kill an acquaintance of yours, which would you choose? Earthquake.


Does someone even read all the ones?

[Manifesto]

1. If a new medicine were developed that would cure arthritis but cause a fatal reaction in one percent of those who took it, would you want it to be released to the public? Yes.

2. You discover your wonderful one-year old child is, because of a mixup at the hospital, not yours. Would you want to exchange the child to try to correct the mistake? If the other parents wanted to then yes.

3. You are given the power to kill people simply by thinking of their deaths and twice repeating the word "good-bye." People would die a natural death and no one would suspect you. Are there any situations in which you would use this power? I suppose in a case where it would save more lives.

4. Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable yet unexciting private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a tolerable and uninspiring professional life. Private life.

5. If you knew of a way to use your estate following your death, to greatly benefit humanity, would you do it and leave only a minimal amount to your family? If my family is doing o.k. financially then yes.

6. If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you? Even if it worked no.

7. While on a trip to another city, your spouse (or lover) meets and spends a night with an exciting stranger. Given that they will never meet again, and that you will not otherwise learn of the incident, would you want your partner to tell you about it? If roles were reversed, would you reveal what you done? Yes and yes.

8. For an all-expense-paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off its wings? What about stepping on a cockroach? Yes to both but I would just kill the butterfly so it would not suffer.

9. Would you be willing to murder an innocent person if it would end hunger in the world? Yes.

10. Would you rather be given $10,000 for your own use or $100,000 to give anonymously to strangers? What if you could keep $1,000,000 or give away $20,000,000. Give away money for both.

11. If you knew there would be a nuclear war in one week, what would you do? Get as many people to come with me that would believe me and stock up on mostly water.

12. Someone very close to you is in pain, paralyzed, and will die within a month. He begs you to give him poison so that he can die. Would you? What if it were your father? Grudgingly yes.

13. While parking late at night, you slightly scrape the side of a Porsche. You are certain no one else is aware of what happened. The damage is minor and would not be covered by insurance. Would you leave a note? If I could afford it at that time then yes.

14. Would you add one year to your life if it meant taking one year from the life of someone in the world selected at random? Would it matter if you were told whose life you had shortened? No.

15. Assume there were a technological breakthrough that would allow people to travel as easily and cheaply between continents as between nearby cities. Unfortunately, there would also be 100,000 deaths a year from the device. Would you try to prevent it's use? It would have to be supervised and not until the deaths were reduced.

16. You and a person you love deeply are placed in separate rooms with a button next to each of you. You know that you will both be killed unless one of you presses the button before sixty minutes pass; furthermore, the first to press the button will save the other person, but will immediately be killed. What do you do? Not press the button.

17. If you were to discover that your closest friend was a heroin dealer, what would you do? If he was doing it himself have him go to rehab, if he was just dealing it find out why first.

18. Which of the following restrictions could you best tolerate: leaving the country permanently or never leaving the state in which you now live? Leaving the country permanently.

19. Where would you choose to be if you could place yourself anywhere on a scale from one to ten, where one is hardship, struggle, and extraordinary accomplishment and ten is comfort, peace of mind, and no accomplishment. Why? Where are you now? 3.

20. While in the government, you discover the President is commiting extortion and other serious crimes. By exposing the situation you might bring about the President's downfall, but you career would be destroyed because you would be framed, fried, and publicly humiliated on other matters. Knowing you would vindicated five years later, would you blow the whistle? What if you knew you would never be vindicated. Yes and yes.

21. If this country were to suffer an unprovoked nuclear attack and would be totally obliterated in a matter of minutes, would you favour unleashing the U.S. nuclear arsenal upon the attackers? Yes.

22. If you were happily married, and then met someone you felt was certain to always bring you deeply passionate, intoxicating love, would you leave your spouse? What if you had kids? No and especially no.

23. Assuming that complete recovery were instantaneous, would you be willing to accept a year of complete paralysis below the neck to prevent the otherwise certain extinction of the blue whale? Yes.

24. Do you believe in capital punishment? Would you be willing to execute a man sentenced to death by the courts if you were selected by lot to do so and he would go free if you refused? Assuming you know no details of the case. No and no.

25. While out one day, you are surprised to see your mother holding hands with someone who is clearly her lover. She notices you, runs over, and begs you not to say anything to your father. How would you respond? What would you do if your father later told you that he was going crazy because he kept thinking your mother was having an affair yet knew it was just his imagination? I would tell. It is partially my business and he has the right to know.

26. Which would you prefer: a wild, turbulent life filled with joy, sorrow, passion, and adventure-intoxicating successes and stunning setbacks; or a happy, secure, predictable life surrounded by friends and family without such wide swings of fortune and mood? The first one.

27. If you knew your child would be severely retarded and would die by the age of five, would you decide to have an abortion. No but it is also for my partner to decide.

28. Someone you love deeply is brutally murdered and you know the identity of the murderer, who unfortunately is acquitted of the crime. Would you seek revenge? No revenge and murder never ends well.

29. If you had to spend the next two years inside a small but fully provisioned Antarctic shelter with one other person, whom would like to have with you? Someone that I can have many conversations with.

30. If you had the choice of one intimate soulmate and no other close friends, or of no such soulmate and many friends and acquaintances, which would you choose? The soulmate, I could still have some regular friends.

31. Would you be willing to do something very unsatisfying (for example, clean toilets) for five years if you were certain that the experience would afterwards bring you a deep sense of personal fulfillment for the rest of your life? No there are better things that could be done with my time.

32. Would you be content with a marriage of the highest quality in all respects but one-it completely lacked sex? Yes.

33. You are leading a hundred people whose lives are in danger and you must choose between two courses of action. One would save only 90 people; the other would have a fifty percent chance of saving everyone but were it to fail everyone would die. Which would you choose? Save the 90 people, with my luck it would really be 1%.

34. If you could prevent either an earthquake in Peru that would kill 40,000 people, a crash at your local airport that would kill two hundred people, or an automobile accident that would kill an acquaintance of yours, which would you choose? Save the 40,000 from the earthquake easy.

[Kwisatz Haderach]

This looks like fun! :lol:

1. If a new medicine were developed that would cure arthritis but cause a fatal reaction in one percent of those who took it, would you want it to be released to the public? Yes, as long as the public is informed about the risk.

2. You discover your wonderful one-year old child is, because of a mixup at the hospital, not yours. Would you want to exchange the child to try to correct the mistake? No. If I raised the child for a year, she is my child.

3. You are given the power to kill people simply by thinking of their deaths and twice repeating the word "good-bye." People would die a natural death and no one would suspect you. Are there any situations in which you would use this power? I would secretly use this power, and the threat of it, to persuade some US officials to give me documents to prove that I was a natural-born US citizen. Then I would kill those officials so as to leave no witnesses. Next, I would enter politics in the US, and use my power to selectively kill my opponents in such a way that I would eventually be elected President of the United States. Then, I would use the authority of my office, as well as my power, to utterly destroy the global capitalist system and build socialism in its place.

4. Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable yet unexciting private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a tolerable and uninspiring professional life. I'd prefer the successful professional life.

5. If you knew of a way to use your estate following your death, to greatly benefit humanity, would you do it and leave only a minimal amount to your family? Yes.

6. If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you? Same answer as for question 3. I would use this power to maneuver my way to an office of high authority from which I could destroy capitalism.

7. While on a trip to another city, your spouse (or lover) meets and spends a night with an exciting stranger. Given that they will never meet again, and that you will not otherwise learn of the incident, would you want your partner to tell you about it? If roles were reversed, would you reveal what you done? Yes and yes.

8. For an all-expense-paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off its wings? What about stepping on a cockroach? Yes and yes.

9. Would you be willing to murder an innocent person if it would end hunger in the world? Yes, without a second thought. The good of the many outweighs the good of the few.

10. Would you rather be given $10,000 for your own use or $100,000 to give anonymously to strangers? What if you could keep $1,000,000 or give away $20,000,000. In both cases I would prefer the money to be given to strangers.

11. If you knew there would be a nuclear war in one week, what would you do? Get together my family, my friends and all the communists I know and make a plan to ensure our survival (probably involving buying a house and land in the most remote area we can find).

12. Someone very close to you is in pain, paralyzed, and will die within a month. He begs you to give him poison so that he can die. Would you? What if it were your father? No and no.

13. While parking late at night, you slightly scrape the side of a Porsche. You are certain no one else is aware of what happened. The damage is minor and would not be covered by insurance. Would you leave a note? No.

14. Would you add one year to your life if it meant taking one year from the life of someone in the world selected at random? Would it matter if you were told whose life you had shortened? If I knew I was going to die young, yes. Otherwise, no.

15. Assume there were a technological breakthrough that would allow people to travel as easily and cheaply between continents as between nearby cities. Unfortunately, there would also be 100,000 deaths a year from the device. Would you try to prevent it's use? No, but I would want people to be aware of the risk.

16. You and a person you love deeply are placed in separate rooms with a button next to each of you. You know that you will both be killed unless one of you presses the button before sixty minutes pass; furthermore, the first to press the button will save the other person, but will immediately be killed. What do you do? Utter a prayer and then push the button.

17. If you were to discover that your closest friend was a heroin dealer, what would you do? Try to talk him out of it. If he were caught, I would testify against him in court, but otherwise I would not call the police or take any action to get him in trouble.

18. Which of the following restrictions could you best tolerate: leaving the country permanently or never leaving the state in which you now live? Never leaving the "state" (general area) in which I now live.

19. Where would you choose to be if you could place yourself anywhere on a scale from one to ten, where one is hardship, struggle, and extraordinary accomplishment and ten is comfort, peace of mind, and no accomplishment. Why? Where are you now? One. Accomplishment is all that really matters. Personal happiness is fleeting. Right now, however, I'm probably around 7 or 8.

20. While in the government, you discover the President is commiting extortion and other serious crimes. By exposing the situation you might bring about the President's downfall, but you career would be destroyed because you would be framed, fried, and publicly humiliated on other matters. Knowing you would vindicated five years later, would you blow the whistle? What if you knew you would never be vindicated. Yes if I would be vindicated five years later, no otherwise. Extortion is not a big enough crime to warrant the irreversible destruction of my career, given that I could use my career to save lives.

21. If this country were to suffer an unprovoked nuclear attack and would be totally obiterated in a matter of minutes, would you favour unleashing your country's nuclear arsenal upon the attackers? No. If we are to die, there is no point in taking more innocent lives with us. But if I were a politician and someone asked me this question, I would lie and say yes.

22. If you were happily married, and then met someone you felt was certain to always bring you deeply passionate, intoxicating love, would you leave your spouse? What if you had kids? Hell no! Fidelity is of the utmost importance to me.

23. Assuming that complete recovery were instantaneous, would you be willing to accept a year of complete paralysis below the neck to prevent the otherwise certain extinction of the blue whale? Yes. One year of paralysis for an entire species? Sounds like a good deal.

24. Do you believe in capital punishment? Would you be willing to execute a man sentenced to death by the courts if you were selected by lot to do so and he would go free if you refused? Assuming you know no details of the case. Yes and no. I believe in capital punishment in the abstract, but the currently existing courts are too corrupt and tied to capitalist interests. I cannot respect their verdicts.

25. While out one day, you are surprised to see your mother holding hands with someone who is clearly her lover. She notices you, runs over, and begs you not to say anything to your father. How would you respond? What would you do if your father later told you that he was going crazy because he kept thinking your mother was having an affair yet knew it was just his imagination? I would tell my father, and let my mother know that I would do so when she runs over to me.

26. Which would you prefer: a wild, turbulent life filled with joy, sorrow, passion, and adventure-intoxicating successes and stunning setbacks; or a happy, secure, predictable life surrounded by friends and family without such wide swings of fortune and mood? The latter.

27. If you knew your child would be severely retarded and would die by the age of five, would you decide to have an abortion. If I were female, no. Since I am male, the decision isn't really mine to take.

28. Someone you love deeply is brutally murdered and you know the identity of the murderer, who unfortunately is acquitted of the crime. Would you seek revenge? Yes, but I would try to devise a plan to kill the bastard and get away with it.

29. If you had to spend the next two years inside a small but fully provisioned Antarctic shelter with one other person, whom would like to have with you? My fiancée.

30. If you had the choice of one intimate soulmate and no other close friends, or of no such soulmate and many friends and acquaintances, which would you choose? The former.

31. Would you be willing to do something very unsatisfying (for example, clean toilets) for five years if you were certain that the experience would afterwards bring you a deep sense of personal fulfillment for the rest of your life? No.

32. Would you be content with a marriage of the highest quality in all respects but one-it completely lacked sex? Yes.

33. You are leading a hundred people whose lives are in danger and you must choose between two courses of action. One would save only 90 people; the other would have a fifty percent chance of saving everyone but were it to fail everyone would die. Which would you choose? The former. I am very risk-averse.

34. If you could prevent either an earthquake in Peru that would kill 40,000 people, a crash at your local airport that would kill two hundred people, or an automobile accident that would kill an acquaintance of yours, which would you choose? Preventing the earthquake in Peru. Whatever saves the most lives is always the best course of action.