A rich friend gives you a special offer. You can choose to either raise a Grizzly Bear or South African Lion cub from birth until they die of natural causes. You will be provided an additional $30,000 every year to help with any expenses such as food and veterinary.
You have to be the main caregiver for the animal and cannot let anyone else raise or train it
A demon by the name of Jimmy Deville decides to come to our world and hosts a talk show where he teleports in random people (including prominent celebrities, world leaders, etc) to be his guest that he interviews. He asks them a few introductory questions (who are you, what do you do, etc) but then he reveals the most morally evil thing you ever done and shows a video from your perspective of you doing said action and then asks why you did it. After the interview is done you are teleported back to where you originally were.
This show is automatically put on every screen in the world and is automatically translated to the language that the people there would understand and cannot be turned off while it is airing.
You are brought onto this show one day. What do you think would be the worst thing you did, how would you explain it, and what would you do after the show?
In both scenarios you are stuck in an empty arena with a sharp knife and some protective leather padded armor and helmet. There is nothing else inside the arena to help you.
The arena is about 1 square mile in area and you cannot leave until all the opponents are dead. Assume they are all hostile to you
Which do you think you have better odds against?
A scientist has discovered how to make people immortal. No longer will people die of old age/ natural causes. The formula has specific conditions where people will age until they are around 25 and then they stop aging. Those that are already past 25 will stay at the age they are currently at.
Do note, this doesn’t make you invincible from dying, it just prevents you from aging.
In order to prevent population collapse the governments of the world chose to outlaw reproduction unless given authorization by the them. An organization is set up to neutralize any violations and you are its newest recruit.
You are sent into an apartment with a partner to neutralize two birthers. Your partner found and dealt with the parents, but you hear the cries of the baby and find it. It’s laying in a crib swaddled in a blanket and it stares at you. Your partner is in the other room waiting for you
Your orders are to neutralize it. What do you do?
A virus slowly spreads that takes away people’s hearing over the course of a year. There is no cure or vaccine for this and after 10 years everyone in the world has become infected with it and lose their hearing.
How would the world change without hearing. How would society and culture adjust to this? What would you do in this scenario?
You discover a cursed ancient artifact that when you touch it causes the soul of a pirate named Robert Hawk to be inside you.
Rob Hawk was a cunning Jack Sparrow-esque pirate that rebelled against the British Empire, but lost in a battle.
Rob wants to take over your body to exact his revenge on the British, but the process will take about a year and will kill you. The takeover is inevitable and nothing can be done to stop it, you will slowly turn into Bob (in terms of memory) and eventually you will no longer exist in your body. Just Rob.
For now, Bob will be visible to you in your head (like Johnny Silverhand from Cyberpunk 2077) and talk with you.
What do you do with the remainder of your life? How would you spend it?
A skilled knight challenges you to a trial by combat and you are forced to accept it. The main rule is that you have to fight it in a suit of full plate armor with a sword and jousting rod (will be provided for you)
You are given two options for this duel to the death. You can either fight him on your own or you can challenge him to a trial by seven where you and six other willing champions will fight the knight and his six willing champions.
A magical phenomenon causes you to be teleported to medieval England (specifically 1450) with whatever you have with you. You are currently in the middle of the woods about 20 miles away from London.
Do you think you would survive the Middle Ages? If so, what would you choose to do?
The world discovers that they can now detach various body parts just like a Lego minifig. Even heads can come off (you’ll still be alive) and be attached to other heads (as long as the blood types work). You can even switch hairstyles.
Anything you can do to a Lego mini figure you can do to yourself. Even replace your parts with other items as long as they can fit on the area.
A virus begins to slowly spread across the world and it’s only symptom is that it eventually makes people blind.
It spreads slowly and is asymptomatic for the first year and everyone gets infected with it. In the second year people with weak immune systems start to experience blurry vision. People start to recognize the virus and try to make a cure but results so far prove unsuccessful. By the third year those with weak immune system experience full blindness while others are starting to experience the blurry vision now. By the fourth year 50% of the population is fully blind. By the fifth year it’s 100%. No cure was found.
How would the world adjust to this? What changes would society have to make if it wants to deal with this situation?
Jerry, the creator of the universe announces a new update for the world.
"All oaths, vows, and promises, no matter how small, shall have actual consequences. If you break an oath, an armored knight will appear to judge you and depending on the severity of the break will either demand atonement, prison time (kept in a white box), or death.
You take an oath for political office, better keep it or face the blade.
You promise little Timmy a trip to Disneyworld but take him to the Dentist instead? Take him to right now and buy anything he asks as atonement
Break a marriage vow and cheat. Get locked in the white box for a few months.
The exact punishment is negotiable, but you cannot bribe the judge. This system will be active starting now with all past official oaths and vows being under this system immediately while only promises made after this announcement being under the system
Thank You and have a nice day -Jerry"
Does the world improve under this system?
Let’s say the elements in Avatar the last Air Bender became real with certain countries having control of certain elements with similar power levels to that of the show. Basically some people start to realize they have this ability in our world
Let’s say Europe is where a majority of fire benders come from
Asia is where a lot of air benders come from
Africa is home to the earth benders
The Americas is home to the water benders
You also discover that you are the avatar and have power over all of the elements
How do you think the world would change with these newfound abilities and what would you do as Avatar?