Seems I've caught the question bug so here's some scenarios for you. Please try to be truthful and please explain the thinking behind your answers.
Oh, and a few words of advice: assumptions are never your best friend.
1) You are given an envelope containing a single sheet of paper. Written on this sheet of paper is the exact moment (date and time) that you will die. This factoid is irrefutable. What do you do? Do you dare peek?
2) You are a top class surgeon. 100% of your surgeries are a success. The person survives, continues to live, so forth and etc. However, you are faced with a dilemma. Before you are two critical patients who are identical in most every way. The only noticeable difference between them is that one is white and the other is black. You only have the time and resources to save one of them. Which do you choose?
3) You save a stranger's life. As a reward, they hand you a blank check and tell you to make it out to yourself for however much you want. How much do you make it?
4) You are testifying before a court in regards to an obscene mass-murder case. You know the defendant is guilty. If you affirm his guilt, he will be imprisoned for life and eventually put to death. However, through connections unknown, he will have you killed for squealing. There is no avoiding this death. If you deny his guilt, you will personally survive but he will go free, upon which he will murder another 10 people before being caught again. How do you testify?
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1. I wouldn't look
2. Have another top class surgeon treat one person and I treatthe other
3. Enough money to buy Minecraft
4. I would affirm him guilty to prevent any more deaths
1. Burn it, like the others have said. I don't need to or want to know.
2. The one who came in first. That or I'd coin flip. The other could be taken in by some other top class surgeon. Not gonna be racist or anything like that so I'll leave it to chance. I could also consult both of them first. Good thing I'll never become a surgeon :P
3. Nothing. I'm not going to put monetary value onto a stranger's life.
4. Leak information to a third party. He wouldn't necessarily know it was me, but that could be a little risky. That, or I'd provoke him enough for him to attack me first (before the trial ends) where I could then have grounds to kill him. Horrible I know, but I don't really want to die nor let him go and kill another 10 people.
1) Incinerate it immediately, I have no earthly business knowing that, Or do something clever, Have my heart stopped so that i'm legally dead for ten seconds That will have technically been when i died, And the paper of course, Would have to see this coming and have the date and time when i have my heart stopped
2) Draw cards from a hat T_T i don't have any racial bias and answering this question will make us seem so
3) Enough to retire immediately, Not getting greedy, or do the good summeritan thing and just go buy a coffee with it But probably the first thing
4) Guilty, I've had people try to assassinate me before just saying, Whiteness pro is pretty good anyways
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1. Burn it.
2. Eh... I suppose I'd treat the black guy (to avoid any accusations of racism) and have someone else treat the white guy.
3. Burn it and say I don't require payment.
4. Tell the truth and sacrifice myself.
First, I will take careful note of the date, and brush up on my surgeon skills to execute my master plan. At the day on which the white man/black man dilemma occurs, I will save whoever arrives first, and gratefully take the blank check offered for my services. I will then save the check for a time I may greatly need it. After knowing of the case in court, I will spend many dollars on a high quality and convincing Bill Murray costume, and a complex robot that can be controlled by someone's brain. If such a thing does not exist, I will hire a team of scientists to make one. After this, I will secretly and indirectly testify against him while disguised as Bill Murray. It'll probably take them a while to figure out that Bill Murray testified against him, and even more time to figure out it wasn't Bill Murray testifying against him, but actually me. By then, using my expert surgeon skills, I will have placed my brain into the robot, so while my body may die, my mind will live on forever.
1.) I'll keep the envelope as it's clearly out of the ordinary. It's perhaps proof of predestination, time travel, or some omniscient entity.
However, I won't read it, for personal reasons.
2.) Having someone else to operate on the other is pointless for the purposes of this exercise, as is flipping a coin.
If I can't rely on chance, and must make a decision between the two without any extra information beyond their difference of race, I have no idea how to come to an answer.
3.) Seeing as how they don't really seem to care how much I write, this must mean they're fairly wealthy. However, there's the obvious notion that they could just refuse if I put down an absurd amount.) I'd put somewhere between 50 to 100 dollars if I can only have it for personal use. (Another option is giving a decent amount to charity.)
4.) Like the second question, there's no use trying to give a 'third option' when my only options are to testify or not. That just defeats the purpose of asking the question. I suppose the only answer I can give is to testify. Luckily, the situation isn't realistic, so I probably won't have to face that sort of situation.
1) Burn that crap. Burn it with fire. There is no situation in which I would want to know it, and the knowledge would only cause me pain and suffering, especially if it's an early date.
2) Assuming no loopholes, i.e. find another surgeon, I would simply pick one at random. Maybe flip a coin, or maybe just go to whoever happens to be in the closer room.
3) Unless saving their life cost me something, I would hand it back to them. I don't feel the need to hurt them even further than the near-death experience that they just had. If they were one of those people who were insistent, saying they'd feel better if they repaid me, I'd take a reasonable amount to satisfy them, and donate it to charity. Although honestly, me sitting here on my couch may say something different than me actually in that situation.
4) Again assuming no loopholes, I hope I would testify against him. I really do hope so. However, consider the probability of this situation, or anything similar, is close to 0, I'm not really going to worry about it too much.
1. Ignorance is bliss. I wouldn't want to open the envelope.
2. If I could only save one, no matter how hard I try, I would have to flip a coin to find out.
3. It depends how hard it was to save their life. I would probably take $50.
4. I would not even get into a situation like that.
1) I look and then that day make sure I say goodbye to everyone I care about. So, my cat.
2) I let them both die. Wouldn't want one feeling jealous of the other!
3) $6,000. Enough to buy 10 games that are $60.
4) I say he's guilty, go home, hug my cat, make sure he remembers me for at least another two years after I die, then patiently wait for death. But, I'd call the cops, knowing this information.
I'm totally not mentally insane or anything.
2. I'd operate on the black person and get another surgeon to operate on the white person. I can't possibly be the only surgeon in the hospital or the only surgeon in the operating room.
3. If the person gave me a blank check saying they can take however much I want, they're either really rich or wasn't thinking. But still, I'd just burn it or if I really needed money, take a little
4. I'd testify with only the judge and with no one else around (you can do that)
Also, why are people saying burn the check? Why not just write a huge amount of money and get the money? Why would it hurt the guy who gave you the check?
...unless I don't know how checks work. Which is probably the case right now.
Also, why are people saying burn the check? Why not just write a huge amount of money and get the money? Why would it hurt the guy who gave you the check?
...unless I don't know how checks work. Which is probably the case right now.
1) I'd probably end up peeking at some point unless I burn it.
2) First come first serve.
3) Tear the check in half. I shouldn't get money for saving a life, unless I'm like a surgeon or something and it's my job.
4) Say he's not guilty, then use my connections on him before he uses his on me.
1) I look and then that day make sure I say goodbye to everyone I care about. So, my cat.
2) I let them both die. Wouldn't want one feeling jealous of the other!
3) $6,000. Enough to buy 10 games that are $60.
4) I say he's guilty, go home, hug my cat, make sure he remembers me for at least another two years after I die, then patiently wait for death. But, I'd call the cops, knowing this information.
I'm totally not mentally insane or anything.
Cats.
10 games at $60 is $600 just saying.
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1. Since there would be no way for me avoid my death, I'd have to know.
2. I would ask them to choose, but if one came before the other I'd do he one that came in first.
3. Really about $2000, it'd be a great computer for now, then the other thousand spend a few years later on a computer of that generation instead of going overkill with a $2k one.
4. I couldn't live myself knowing I caused 10 people to die. But I'd call the cops saying he will kill me to him arrested immediately.
...unless I don't know how checks work. Which is probably the case right now.
Any money that you use the check to attain will be deducted from the stranger's accounts. So the stranger would be losing whatever amount of money you decide to take from him.
1) I would not open the envelope detailing my fate, but I would store it away safely.
2) I would sooner attempt to save both their lives, even if all outside indicators deemed it impossible. I would rather lose them both as a product of my best efforts than lose just one as a product of my neglect. (This is likely related to why I am not a world-class surgeon.)
3) I would give the stranger an opportunity to rescind his offer, noting that my generosity does not extend to fields of finance. If he insists, I would take everything he had.
4) It depends on whether or not Iknow the criminal plans to have me killed if I tell the truth. If I was sure he would kill me for my honesty, I would lie to the court to protect myself. If I didn't know or believe he would try to kill me, I would enlist the aid of the Witness Protection Program before testifying.
Oh, and a few words of advice: assumptions are never your best friend.
1) You are given an envelope containing a single sheet of paper. Written on this sheet of paper is the exact moment (date and time) that you will die. This factoid is irrefutable. What do you do? Do you dare peek?
2) You are a top class surgeon. 100% of your surgeries are a success. The person survives, continues to live, so forth and etc. However, you are faced with a dilemma. Before you are two critical patients who are identical in most every way. The only noticeable difference between them is that one is white and the other is black. You only have the time and resources to save one of them. Which do you choose?
3) You save a stranger's life. As a reward, they hand you a blank check and tell you to make it out to yourself for however much you want. How much do you make it?
4) You are testifying before a court in regards to an obscene mass-murder case. You know the defendant is guilty. If you affirm his guilt, he will be imprisoned for life and eventually put to death. However, through connections unknown, he will have you killed for squealing. There is no avoiding this death. If you deny his guilt, you will personally survive but he will go free, upon which he will murder another 10 people before being caught again. How do you testify?
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2. Have another top class surgeon treat one person and I treatthe other
3. Enough money to buy Minecraft
4. I would affirm him guilty to prevent any more deaths
2. I would ask them and see what they would want me to do.
3. I would burn the check, and just tell them thanks.
4. See if there's a way I can testify anonymously and then get out of that area.
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2. The one who came in first. That or I'd coin flip. The other could be taken in by some other top class surgeon. Not gonna be racist or anything like that so I'll leave it to chance. I could also consult both of them first. Good thing I'll never become a surgeon :P
3. Nothing. I'm not going to put monetary value onto a stranger's life.
4. Leak information to a third party. He wouldn't necessarily know it was me, but that could be a little risky. That, or I'd provoke him enough for him to attack me first (before the trial ends) where I could then have grounds to kill him. Horrible I know, but I don't really want to die nor let him go and kill another 10 people.
2) Draw cards from a hat T_T i don't have any racial bias and answering this question will make us seem so
3) Enough to retire immediately, Not getting greedy, or do the good summeritan thing and just go buy a coffee with it But probably the first thing
4) Guilty, I've had people try to assassinate me before just saying, Whiteness pro is pretty good anyways
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2. i ask them who will have the surgery.. i would do the one who choose the other to get the surgery..
3. the amount of money i need at that time..
4. deny it..
2. Eh... I suppose I'd treat the black guy (to avoid any accusations of racism) and have someone else treat the white guy.
3. Burn it and say I don't require payment.
4. Tell the truth and sacrifice myself.
However, I won't read it, for personal reasons.
2.) Having someone else to operate on the other is pointless for the purposes of this exercise, as is flipping a coin.
If I can't rely on chance, and must make a decision between the two without any extra information beyond their difference of race, I have no idea how to come to an answer.
3.) Seeing as how they don't really seem to care how much I write, this must mean they're fairly wealthy. However, there's the obvious notion that they could just refuse if I put down an absurd amount.) I'd put somewhere between 50 to 100 dollars if I can only have it for personal use. (Another option is giving a decent amount to charity.)
4.) Like the second question, there's no use trying to give a 'third option' when my only options are to testify or not. That just defeats the purpose of asking the question. I suppose the only answer I can give is to testify. Luckily, the situation isn't realistic, so I probably won't have to face that sort of situation.
2. Find another top class surgeon as fast as I can.
3. Burn the check.
4.See if I can testify anonymously. If not, testify and hire four bodyguards.
2) Assuming no loopholes, i.e. find another surgeon, I would simply pick one at random. Maybe flip a coin, or maybe just go to whoever happens to be in the closer room.
3) Unless saving their life cost me something, I would hand it back to them. I don't feel the need to hurt them even further than the near-death experience that they just had. If they were one of those people who were insistent, saying they'd feel better if they repaid me, I'd take a reasonable amount to satisfy them, and donate it to charity. Although honestly, me sitting here on my couch may say something different than me actually in that situation.
4) Again assuming no loopholes, I hope I would testify against him. I really do hope so. However, consider the probability of this situation, or anything similar, is close to 0, I'm not really going to worry about it too much.
2. The choice would be random, I have no bias of race.
3. I would just give it back to him.
4. He's guilty. I would report also to the cops that I'm a target now.
2. If I could only save one, no matter how hard I try, I would have to flip a coin to find out.
3. It depends how hard it was to save their life. I would probably take $50.
4. I would not even get into a situation like that.
2) I let them both die. Wouldn't want one feeling jealous of the other!
3) $6,000. Enough to buy 10 games that are $60.
4) I say he's guilty, go home, hug my cat, make sure he remembers me for at least another two years after I die, then patiently wait for death. But, I'd call the cops, knowing this information.
I'm totally not mentally insane or anything.
Cats.
2. I'd operate on the black person and get another surgeon to operate on the white person. I can't possibly be the only surgeon in the hospital or the only surgeon in the operating room.
3. If the person gave me a blank check saying they can take however much I want, they're either really rich or wasn't thinking. But still, I'd just burn it or if I really needed money, take a little
4. I'd testify with only the judge and with no one else around (you can do that)
No, that's enough to buy 100 $60 games.
Also, why are people saying burn the check? Why not just write a huge amount of money and get the money? Why would it hurt the guy who gave you the check?
...unless I don't know how checks work. Which is probably the case right now.
Oh yeah, you're right. Fail.
Cats.
2) First come first serve.
3) Tear the check in half. I shouldn't get money for saving a life, unless I'm like a surgeon or something and it's my job.
4) Say he's not guilty, then use my connections on him before he uses his on me.
10 games at $60 is $600 just saying.
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1. Since there would be no way for me avoid my death, I'd have to know.
2. I would ask them to choose, but if one came before the other I'd do he one that came in first.
3. Really about $2000, it'd be a great computer for now, then the other thousand spend a few years later on a computer of that generation instead of going overkill with a $2k one.
4. I couldn't live myself knowing I caused 10 people to die. But I'd call the cops saying he will kill me to him arrested immediately.
1) I would not open the envelope detailing my fate, but I would store it away safely.
2) I would sooner attempt to save both their lives, even if all outside indicators deemed it impossible. I would rather lose them both as a product of my best efforts than lose just one as a product of my neglect. (This is likely related to why I am not a world-class surgeon.)
3) I would give the stranger an opportunity to rescind his offer, noting that my generosity does not extend to fields of finance. If he insists, I would take everything he had.
4) It depends on whether or not I know the criminal plans to have me killed if I tell the truth. If I was sure he would kill me for my honesty, I would lie to the court to protect myself. If I didn't know or believe he would try to kill me, I would enlist the aid of the Witness Protection Program before testifying.