You discover that, because of a mix-up at the hospital, your wonderful 2-year-old is not actually yours. Would you want to switch kids and try to correct the mistake? Assume you'd have no further contact with the child you gave up. No. If my wife and I have spent the last two years forming attachments … Continue reading Question of the Week #265
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Question of the Week #264
If a new medicine would cure arthritis but kill 1 out of 100 people who took it, would you want it to be legal? What about a vaccine that would kill 1 in 20, but keep the others from getting cancer? No. And no. If it were one in a million, I might think differently. … Continue reading Question of the Week #264
Question of the Week #263
For $30,000 would you go for 2 months without washing, brushing your teeth, shampooing, or even using deodorant? Assume you can't tell anyone why. Seems like this would have been super easy to accomplish in 2020 while everyone was on lock down at home, desperate to avoid COVID-19. Now that we're all making our way … Continue reading Question of the Week #263
Question of the Week #262
You're on an airplane talking pleasantly to a stranger of average appearance. Unexpectedly, the person offers you $30,000 for one night of sex. If you knew there were no danger and you'd get the money, would you do it? If the payment were meaningfully raised or lowered, at what point would you change your answer? … Continue reading Question of the Week #262
Question of the Week #261
If you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, what would you most regret not having told someone? What good might come out of telling them now? I know I don't talk much. But when I do, it's because I have something to say. Therefore, I don't think there's necessarily … Continue reading Question of the Week #261
Question of the Week #260
Would you like your partner to be much smarter and much more attractive than you? If so, what is it about you that might hold his or her interest and love? Absolutely. I definitely want whoever I end up with to be smarter and more attractive than me. I want to feel like I'm with … Continue reading Question of the Week #260
Question of the Week #259
If all online interactions and Web browsing had to be under your real name and would be recorded and archived, how would it alter your use of the Internet and the way you communicate with people? Uh... isn't that basically how things work now anyway? I mean... I wasn't 100% paying attention to everything that … Continue reading Question of the Week #259
Question of the Week #258
Would you want to spend a week as someone of the opposite sex? Someone very old? Very beautiful? Very ugly? Or severely handicapped? If so, which one would most intrigue you? Can I just say no? To all of these... no. It just seems exhausting to spend time as someone who isn't me. Besides, by … Continue reading Question of the Week #258
Question of the Week #257
Terrorists operating out of a country that tacitly supported them kill 2 million people by setting off a nuclear bomb in downtown Chicago. Would you favor retaliating against that country, and if so, how? This is something of a follow up to last week's question... And, like I mentioned last week, I'd really be torn … Continue reading Question of the Week #257
Question of the Week #256
If a country hit the U.S. with a nuclear bomb, would you favor unleashing our nuclear arsenal upon them? An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind. Someone said that. Was it Gandhi? During the Cold War, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. had policies of mutually assured destruction. Basically, it meant if … Continue reading Question of the Week #256
The Confusing Middle 