Hypothetical Dilemmas

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**unclehomefries**

Ok, so I did this in another forum looong ago, but its pretty fun and thought provoking (usually)

Works like this: I pose a hypothetical dilemma. Next person answers dilemma and posts a new one, with third person answering and posting a new one.

These rules are lax, so feel free to just answer or just write a new dilemma.

Dilemma:
If you could grant world peace at the cost of your own life, would you do it?

**OverbossGhurzubMoga**

No. I wouldn't. The human race doesn't deserve to be saved. Not now, not ever. Humans have destroyed so many beautiful things that I can never forgive them as a race.

Dilemma: You have two sons. You can give one a bright and promising future at the the expense of the others' future. Do you do it?

**Greebynog**

No. Probably my most core belief is a fair and equal start for all, I detest the idea of social class determining the course of a life.

Dilemma: Someone with a terminal illness asks you to help them die with dignity. You're the only one who can do this. Do you help them or not?

**mcfly**

No, because I am Christian and feel it would damn my soul. It seems like murder to me.

Delimma: You give up wargaming and video gaming for a perfect relationship for the rest of you life. Do it? Y/N (this is meant as a your happiness or your and someone elses happiness)

**sebster**

Sure. That's assuming that I'm not giving up gaming on the grounds that it's an ultimatum from my perfect partner, because then it’s not the perfect relationship. If it was because she lived in a small town or something where there was no gaming, I’d do it no hesitation, it's just wargaming

A device is invented that allows for instant teleportation. It achieves this transportation by determining the exact location of everything that makes up your body, destroying it and recreating it perfectly at the new location. It is 100% safe and completely painless. You just close your eyes and when you open them again you’re at the new location, but you’re now composed of entirely different matter. Are you willing to use this machine?

**warpcrafter**

Yes, if it were guaranteed that the process would exactly recreate everything that I am.

Dilemma: Thanks to the wonders of genetic engineering, your children could be guaranteed utter physical perfection, but then they could only have children with others who had been so perfected by science. Would you want that for your children, or would you be willing to roll the genetic lottery?

**Cheese Elemental**

No. Man was not meant to tamper with the course of nature. Improve on it, yes, but not mess with it.

Dilemma: You and a stranger are held prisoner by a terrorist organisation. They have the means to automatically detect a lie. The stranger is in no state to talk, so they interrogate you first. They ask you questions regarding vital information about your country. Every time you give a correct answer, they harm the stranger. Lie, and you take the hit.

Would you lie to save a stranger if it means your own pain and death?

**Ghost in the Darkness**

Yes, and No. I would lie and take the beating to protect my country feth the other guy.

Dilemma: Who would you have sex with Jessica Alba or Jessica Biel.

**warpcrafter**

That would go to a coin toss, with a win either way.

Dilemma: You find out that a new advanced medical technology would provide you with instantly available replacement organs/tissues, but only because a clone of you has been made and is being kept, mindless, in a coma for your convenience.

**Cheese Elemental**

I wouldn't have a problem with that if it's essentially a corpse.

Dilemma: You are the commander of a military garrison in a city. In two days time, you are going to carry out a crippling assault on the enemy's city.

However, you know that the enemy general is planning the same thing. If you do not carry out the attack, your enemy could gain tremendous boosts to his military. If you destroy his city, he can't do anything.

You can't change the day of the attack, and you don't have enough men to split offence and defence. What do you do?

**Lord Bingo**

Attack, if you destroy the city he can't attack you.

Dilemma: You and you friend have been kidnapped, you manage to find a way to escape but only one person can use it without the kidnapper knowing, what do you do? Escape and leave your friend or let your friend escape but you stay.

**Septic**

Let the friend escape, if it's just akidnapping and I could be rensomed or something

Dillema: A drug has been devoloped that gives a 'perfect' high but has no lasting mental effects, however you are generally unaware once you have taken it. It also renders you sterile.
Do you take it

**Gary**

Assuming the drug is legal, hell yeah! I'm not the type of guy who likes children anyway.

Took me a while to figure out what dilemma to use, eventually chose something based on my favorite anime.

Dilemma: Your most trusted friend offers you a notepad known as a "Deathnote". If you write a person's name in this notepad and picture their face, they will die. You can, if you wish, also specify the cause of death as well as the time of death. Your friend has been using this notepad to deliver justice on a global scale at their will, eliminating many of the world's criminals, and wants you to continue their work, because their life is now in danger.

The moment you touch the notepad your soul never be allowed to rest in peace.

Do you accept such responsibility and consequences to make the world a better place?

**Paul Atreides**

No. I would not trust myself to wield something like that. Plus, I will rather make my own tool of masssdestruction anyway.

Someone gives YOU the choice to shift the planets history from the patrialcal society model to the matrialchal(Could someone tell me how you spell that anyway?). If you take the chance, patrialchal rule will be a figment of imagination. To you take that chance?

**OverbossGhurzubMoga**

Hell yeah, just to up-feth all the sexists out there. After the world is burning to the ground, since all women know how to do is cook and clean [up until the '60s atleast

], I will instate myself as ruler.

Dilemma: You have the choice to wipe the slate clean with the human race. You would undo the history of the world and start over, imparting all the knowledge you know into a small civilazation to hopefully make a better, smarter human race. The drawback is that you or your friends and family would never be born. Do you do it?

**Corpsesarefun**

Yes i would.

You have the choice between your friends and family dying or the rest of the human race being wiped out. what do you do?

**Orkeosaurus**

Gotta be my friends and family. Sucks, but that's life.

Would you rather punch a baby in the face, or kick a baby in the face?

**Belphegor**

Kick. I need my hands free to light my cigar when I do it.

Dilemma: Scented or Unscented

**Ghost in the Darkness**

Scented.

Kill a Polar Bear and eye in the process of kill a wolf and lose an arm in the process.

**Orkeosaurus**

I'd kill the polar bear and his eye.

I wouldn't want to lose an arm.

Kill Hitler, knowing that there might be disastrous results in the future?

**mcfly**

Yes.

If the world was destroyed and you had to choose between bringing your family back to life, all the money in the world, or bringing all the dead people back to life and healing the world(no zombies and no family) which would you choose?

**unclehomefries**

lol someone has been playing Fable 2

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

All the money in the world. Then with that, I can fund research into the other two. Win/Win/Win situation with money.

RIght, my one.

You decided to chum your mate down to another pub on a Saturday night, get some mopsy sitting on your knee, who winds up getting the wrong end of the stick, and you don't know how to let her down and are kicking yourself for not being such a weakling and agreeing to stay that night...

**Orkeosaurus**

I go to America where people speak correctly.

You must topple one government, anywhere in the world.

(Has to be an actual country, no Vatican or anything.)

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

USA. Back into the Empire, you naughty little boys. Then we will show you the language known as English and it's various dialects, all of which are acceptable, apart from your ones

You find out your friend has been cheating on his girlfriend, who is also a very good friend of yours. He then asks you to lie for him. What do you do?

**Cheese Elemental**

Tell the the guy that his girlfriend has started cheating on him as well. They'll both come clean and split up with no fuss.

You are in a locked room, with two spiked walls slowly grinding towards you. There is a lock on your side of the door, but the keyhole is in the shape of your penis. When you stick it in the hole, as was shown with a metal key earlier, it gets chopped off but the door opens.

What do you do? (Sorry girls, you can't answer this one.)

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Probably just take the walls. Sure, I could stick the old chap into the lock to open it, but I'd imagine the excrutiating agony would prevent me from doing pretty much anything else. Or, whip out my pocket Bono. He's enough of a...well, you get the picture.

Someone else can do the dilemma. I've done two now!

**LunaHound**

easy, i'll use cheese elemental's to open the door.

Dilema: You get to forever be with your soulmate ,
down side is you relive one same day ( think movie ground hog day) for eternity.

**Orkeosaurus**

I tell R2 to shut it down.

You're either blind or paraplegic.

**Orkeosaurus**

Oops, gak, that was 3 answers for the penis destroying walls one.