Question #122: If you were happily married, and then met someone you felt was certain to always bring you deeply passionate, intoxicating love, would you leave your spouse? What if you had kids?No ( Read more... )

Question #119: If this country were to be totally obliterated in a nuclear attack, would you favor unleashing the US nuclear arsenal on the aggressors?

Of course not. Violence only begets violence. There's no need to lump massive suffering upon massiver suffering.

Question #120: Would you accept $10,000 for shaving your head without wearing a ( Read more... )

Question #117: Have you ever considered suicide? What is so important to you that without it life would not be worth living?Only briefly have I ever considered suicide, but iit was more like a selfish thought-experiment. I have no idea what it feels like to be depressed or even extremely blue. My brain chemistry isn't wired for that ( Read more... )

Question #115: Given the ability to project yourself into the past but not return, would you do so? Where would you go and what might you try to accomplish to try to change history?

Hell to the naw. And if I did, it would be to pants you.

Follow-up question: How might the world be different if you could actually change an event? How sure are you ( Read more... )

Question #113: If you could take a one-month trip anywhere in the world and money were not a consideration, where would you go and what would you do?

Better question for ChristineI've thought about this before, but never really came to a conclusion. I usually end up saying whatever country is on my mind. Most recently I've said Brazil and Spain ( ( Read more... )

Question #111: If your parents became infirm and the only options were to either bring them into your home or to put them in a nursing home, which would you do? What about a sister or brother who had suffered a crippling injury and -- other than your home -- had nowhere to go but a convalescent home?Of course I'd prefer to take them into my own ( Read more... )

Question #110: If you were having difficulty on an important test and could safely cheat by looking at someone else's paper, would you?I hate to say it, but I might. My academic performance is important to me. I would hate myself later for doing it and feel incredible guilt. But I would feel better if I got the test back and didn't do that well ( Read more... )

Question #108: You are attending a party that is being attended by many fascinating people you've never met. Would you want to go if you had to go by yourself?Probably not. They would have to be circus-quality fascinating if I were to attend. Or maybe if it's something I find fascinating but also embarassing, then I would go alone in that situation ( Read more... )

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Question #107: Would you like to have your rate of physical aging slowed by thirty or so as to give you a life expectancy of about 2000 years?I don't think so. My immediate family would die when I was a child. My nieces and nephews would die when I was an adolescent. My brother and sister's grandchildren would die when I was in high school ( Read more... )