Hypothetical Dilemmas

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**greenskin lynn**

same day over and over.....i'd probably go slightly mad

you and your mum are being chased by a bear, do you outrun your mum or slow down the bear

**Septic**

Outrun my Mum, she can take a bear

Dilemma: You have power over two boats full of 100 people and explosives.
One boat is full of convicts and the other is full of citizens.

One of them has to blow up and the citezens ask you to blow up the convicts. The convicts say nothing.

Who do you blow up?
(Dark knight FTW)

**Corpsesarefun**

i blow up both of them and watch the fireworks

would you rather be omnipotent (all powerfull) or omniscient (all knowing)? you cant be both.

**sebster**

corpsesarefun wrote:would you rather be omnipotent (all powerfull) or omniscient (all knowing)? you cant be both.

Omniscient. I’ve never really wanted all that much, materially, but I love knowing stuff and finding out new things.

And yeah, I know there are cheaty answers where you can choose omnipotence and then make yourself omnipotent, but that’s a boring approach.

You are given a lottery ticket and win $75. A friend invites you into a game, where he gives you a 75% chance of winning $100, but if you accept there is a 25% chance of losing your $75.

A week later you make a silly bet and lose $75. Your same friend pops up and offers you another chance to play the same game, except now there’s a 25% chance of wiping your debt out entirely, but a 75% chance your debt will grow to $100.

Do you play either game? You can play one of them, both or neither.

**Roze**

None

i hate to gamble

You are offered the best sex of your life *guaranteed* with the best looking person you have ever seen, But your in a relationship. The deal is this super fit Chick/Dude will fly to the other side of the world and you will never see him/her again and no one but you will ever know about it...do you do it?

**RapidKiller**

Yes because that would be awesome and "...your in a relationship" makes no grammatical sense.

Dilemma: Would you use a slave if the only pleasure in life was serving you and not doing so would cause it great physical Displeasure.

**Septic**

Aahh, the dobby dilemma.
Yes I would.

Dilemma: You have the power to make half the people in the world happy at the expense of the other half's lives, the halves are determined at random and you are exempt from either outcome.
Do you use your power?

**J.Black**

No. Because, you could accidentally wipe out all the pretty and intelligent types, leaving you with nothing but grinning, ugly morons for the rest of your days.

Dilemma: A fat man leading a group of people out of a cave on a coast is stuck in the mouth of that cave. In a short time high tide will be upon them, and unless he is unstuck, they will all be drowned except the fat man, whose head is out of the cave. [But, fortunately, or unfortunately, someone has with him a stick of dynamite.] There seems no way to get the fat man loose without using [that] dynamite which will inevitably kill him; but if they do not use it everyone will drown. What should they do?

**99MDeery**

Simple stick the dynamite where the sun don't shine and light the fuse.

You have a choice you can either go back in time and meet either Napoleon or Hitler to have dinner with them, which do you choose and why?

**Ghost in the Darkness**

Napoleon cause He was the only one who made the French not suck.

You could either live at the top of the mountain or the bottom of the ocean, note: both places will be the last place you live and you can't travel.

**Ghost in the Darkness**

Napoleon cause He was the only one who made the French not suck.

You could either live at the top of the mountain or the bottom of the ocean, note: both places will be the last place you live and you can't travel.

**Orkeosaurus**

"Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible."

Would you rather go two days without food or water or a week without food?

**Corpsesarefun**

week without food, it will be less damaging

would you rather die or live forever? (forever means FOREVER. even after everything ends)

**Frazzled**

Forever's so over rated its not funny

Cabernet or merlot?

**Belphegor**

Merlot

Live without hands, or live without a voice?

**Frazzled**

Live without a vice-heck no one listens to me anyway.

In the case of Zombie outbreak, head to the hills or head to the beach?

**Corpsesarefun**

I stay at home, the stash of chainsaws, knives and axes should keep me safe

if zombies were fully sentient beings would you still kill them for your own survival?

**Greebynog**

Yes, if they were trying to eat me or other innocents. Same way I'd shoot a bear coming at me.

Would you rather have a twelve foot penis or a 1mm one?

**Orkeosaurus**

I'd go with a twelve foot penis, cuz that's only 6" extra.

Boo-ya!

Would you rather be surrounded by house flies or garter snakes for 6 hours?

**Frazzled**

Garter snakes are cool. House flies are annoying.

Which is worse to wake up to in your room, a Zentraedi Battlepod or Invid warrior?

**Cheese Elemental**

I don't know what you're on about, so I choose both.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

**sebster**

Cheese Elemental wrote:I don't know what you're on about, so I choose both.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Egg. It was a dinosaur egg, but it was there way before there were chickens.

If you had to have sex with either Courtney Love or Hagrid, who would you pick?

**OverbossGhurzubMoga**

Hagrid. Couldn't deal with the shotgun being fed to me shells first.

Life without sight or life without sound?

**greenskin lynn**

while both would drive me mad, i'll go with sound, since i'd survive longer.

you find out your mates new girl does nude work on the net, do you tell him?

**OverbossGhurzubMoga**

Yes, after saving the url's.

You are trapt in a cave with a friend with no food but plenty of water. You are getting really hungry and you notice your friend is looking "good-enough-to-eat"...Do you?

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Not enough information in that quandry. How long are we stuck for? How deep? CAn we expect rescue? Why are we trapped? Rockfall, or too tight a hole?

The human body can go a long time without food, so I'd give it as long as possible before consider chowing down. Even then, I'd try to keep him alive by just taking a few choice cuts here and there.

You are seeing a girl. It is clear she is more into you than you are into her. However, she has been told that you are a bit of an arsehole with women, quite unjustifiably. Now you slept together the first night, though not a lot happened. Do you knock things on the head straight away, or try to make a go of it?

**Aelyn**

Mu. It's not feasible, with the way I think and act, for this scenario to come about.

You're on a train. The way it's headed at the moment, it will cause the death of five innocent people. It's possible for you to change the course of the train, but doing so will cause the death of one innocent person. Do you make the passive choice for five to die, or the active choice for one to die?

**mcfly**

I would jump off and tell the driver to do his job and drive that train.

If there were terrorists bent on changing the country, would you save your countries government or support a revolution?

**yani**

Save it cos Clown is good to laugh at

Also terrorism is stamping on the innocent to make the bad guys hurt which is a complete oxymoron like war for peace.

A man walks into a shop thet you're shopping in. He pulls a gun on the assistant and demands he opens the tills. You are the only one to notice. Do you step in to help the assistant or do you phone the police or just walk away?

**OverbossGhurzubMoga**

I would be the one with the gun, lol. Seriously, I would walk in, save the day, and be all heroic and stuff.

Your country is on the verge of revolution. You are the deciding factor. Do you push the country into years of blood shed or do you perserve the government. [It doesn't matter if the government doesn't need changing or isn't doing anything wrong.]