1) Would you be willing to spend a night alone in a remote house that is supposedly haunted, just for the sake of it? (knowing nothing more about the history of the house than that) There is no electricity though there is running water and other utilities, and you can bring your own flashlight and/or lantern and such. The nearest neighbors live 5 miles away.
1A = Nope. I have better things to do with my time. But if they want to pay me to stop there then that’s a different matter.
2) If a new medicine were developed that would cure arthritis but cause a fatal reaction in 1% of those who took it, would you want it to be released to the public?
2A = Why not, it happens already with other medication. As long as people know there is a risk.
3) You discover that your wonderful one-year-old child is, because of a mix-up at the hospital, not yours. What would you do? Would you want to exchange the child to try to correct the "mistake"?
3A = Can I just have a refund or gift vouchers?
4) Would you accept $1,000,000 in U.S. dollars (or the equivelant in whatever currency) to leave your country and never set foot in it again?
4A = This must be an old question as a million is barely a decent house … add a few noughts and I’ll think about it.
5) Which gender do you think has it easier in our culture?
5A = Easier at what? (btw – that’s not a hypothetical question)
6) (For this question, if you're currently in a mate relationship then answer as if you were single) You have the chance to meet someone with whom you can have the most satisfying love imaginable -- the stuff of dreams. However, you know that in six months the person will have sex with someone else, and then when you eventually find out they will leave you for them and want nothing more to do with you. Knowing the pain that would follow, would you still want to meet the person and fall in love and experience the 6 months of bliss? You would forget your foreknowledge of the events in store for you, too.
6A = No person knows what the future holds. It is better to have loved and lost than to have to pretend.
7) If you knew of a way to use your estate, following your death, to greatly benefit all of humanity, would you do it and leave only a minimal amount (10%) to your family?
7A = This depends on how many noughts they add onto question 4.
8) Would you be willing to murder an innocent person if it would 'somehow' end all hunger in the world?
8A = Probably not, as we don’t know the consequences of the resulting over population.
9) Would you rather be given $10,000 for your own use, or be able to give $1000 anonymously to 100 strangers? You can't pick who it's given to, though you know that all of the people could really use the money.
9A) = I’ll take the 10k. We don’t know what these other people ‘could really use the money’ for.
10) Would you be willing to give up half of what you now own (randomly selected) for a pill that would permanently change you so that one hour of sleep each day would fully refresh you?
10A = Nope.
11) If the person you were engaged to marry had an accident and became a paraplegic, would you go through with the marriage or back out of it?
11A = I’d make a run for it, they obviously drugged me to get me to agree to marry them.
12) You are offered $1,000,000 USD (or the equivalent in whatever currency) for the following act: Before you are ten pistols -- only one of which is loaded. You must pick up one of the pistols, point it at your forehead, and pull the trigger. If you can do this and walk away you do so a millionaire. Would you accept the risk?
12A = Nope.
13) Someone very close to you is in pain, paralyzed, and you 'somehow' know for certain that they will die within a month. He begs you to give him a fast-acting, painless poison so that he can die. No one else would ever know. Would you?
13A = I’d like to think I would.
14) If you could have free, unlimited service for five years from an extremely good cook, chauffeur, or masseuse, which would you choose?
14A = the chauffeur with great hands and cooking skills.
15) Do you feel ill at ease going out to see a movie by yourself?
15A = Nope (this isn’t a hypothetical question either)
16) Do you feel ill at ease going out to dinner at a resturaunt by yourself?
16A = Nope (this also isn’t a hypothetical question, you really found some crap examples)
17) For $35,000 USD, would you go for three months without washing, brushing your teeth, or using deodorant? Assume you could not explain your reasons to anyone until after the three months is up.
17A = Nope – I get paid more than that to turn up looking presentable.
18) Would you be willing to have your left middle finger surgically removed if it 'somehow' guaranteed you immunity from all diseases?
18A = Depends what other diseases I get.
19) You 'somehow' know for certain that you will die of an incurable disease within three months. Would you allow yourself to be cryogenically frozen *within the week* if you knew it would give you a modest chance of being revived in 1,000 years and living a greatly extended life?
19A = Nope – I would have had my finger cut off and become immune from the disease.
20) You are leading 100 people in a survivalist situation, when suddenly your lives are in danger and you must choose between two courses of action. One would cause 10 of the people to die and everyone else would live, the other would have a 70% chance of saving everyone but were it to fail then everyone would die. Which would you choose?
20A = Do I get the choose which 10 people die?
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