r/hypotheticals

A genie appears while you are on the toilet and offers you a deal. He feels you have been wasting your life recently, so he offers you $30,000,000, but with a catch: you will only live for a maximum of 30 extra years.

You will still be mortal and therefore could die sooner, but if you do not, in exactly 30 years time, you will suffer a fatal heart attack and die on the spot.

Would you accept this deal, or reject it and live the remainder of your natural life?

If humanity found out the sun was going to explode in a 100 years. Would the combined effort of the whole world and all its money/resources be enough to create a way for humanity to survive?

- what could we build to survive as a species?

- if 100 years is not enough how long would we need?

A magical microphone appears and offers you a challenge. He will give you $1,000 dollars for every word you can say in just one breath. Here are the rules:

You are allowed to prepare for one minute before you start. You can use this time to think about what you will say and do breathing exercises to help you get ready.

As soon as the minute is up, you will have to keep speaking for as long as possible. As soon as you take a breath, the challenge ends.

How much would you be able to earn?

To be clear, this man sees EVERYTHING, he knows the size of your Johnson at this very moment, but he doesn’t know what it looked like 5 minutes ago because he stores no information, if it’s not available to see right now then he cannot see it

He can see inside everything, he knows all written information because he can see it, but he can’t read your hard drive, if you have something on the monitor though, he can see it

If anyone commits any crime, he will report it to the police alongside a live location tracker of the criminal, there are no courts for this because his information is always correct, he will only report reasonable crimes, so if they make laws based on his knowledge then he won’t report those

He can also tell if your lying

Nobody can see what he sees, nobody can get information out of him unless it’s about a criminal committing a crime and their location, but you are ALWAYS being watched, down to the smallest detail, someone sees it

Unless you select “even if he stores information” he won’t be able to catch crimes that require previous information, like rape by deceit (unless you find out in the middle of the action)

If you pick “even if people could access publicly available information” than people can see any publicly available place, roads, libraries, KFCs, open houses, but anywhere private, your backyard, schools, they can’t see

EDIT: the selecting and picking is because this was from polls and I can’t put polls here, but please state if you’d be ok with the other parts, wether he stores information or if people could see the public information

EDIT2: forgot to include, he will store information relating to the crime, if you rob someone he will record it, if you hit someone, he will record it, but that’s the only info he stores

A petty genie finds you and gives you your age amount of wishes but what you wish for not only affects you, but it also affects everybody in a 0.3 mile radius from you.

How the age thing works- let’s say you are 42 years old, you have 42 wishes, whereas if you are 85, you get 85 wishes.

What are you wishing for?

One day everyone has two versions of themselves one male one female. They share the same memories, personality, and life but they also are different. Growing up treated different would shape you in different ways.

How would you react to yourself? Would you compare your lives to see how much gender changed your friendships, opportunities, goals, and relationships?

Would you enjoy someone who understands you completely, or will you only see your own flaws looking back at you? What if one version of you was happier, more successful, or more loved?

How would society change when everyone is forced to confront another themselves shaped by different expectations? Also the world has balanced itself to support the doubled populations needs

The Queen of the Karens appears in front of you. She wants to let you know what it is like to suffer like her. Therefore, she offers you a deal. She will give you $1,000,000, but you will have to spend the next year of your life as an old woman.

Aches. Pains. Weird stains. Many complaints. You'll have to endure it all.

Once the year is up, you will return to your normal body with your prize.

Would you take the deal?

You trained birds to steal money and other riches within a 5 km radius from your house.
They mostly return with paper money and jewellery and always return the goods by flying into your house through an open window.

The people notice that some of their money and jewellery is gone but they can’t find any signs of a break in.

After a few months some of your neighbours notice that birds with either money or jewellery clamped in their beaks fly into your house through the window. With time more people seem to notice that birds return with (stolen) goods to your home.

Could these people press charges against you and on what grounds?
And if yes, how would you defend yourself if you were your lawyer?

Let's just suppose that your soul somehow left your body and entered Donald Trump's body. Now you are in Donald Trump's body, Donald's Office but your own consciousness, your own decision, your own morals but entire power and reputation that Trump holds as of today.

Imagine this:

Someone offers you a single penny.

The catch? It doubles every day.

Day 1: $0.01

Day 10: $5.12

Day 20: $5,242.88

Day 30: over $5 million.

But there’s one rule:

The moment you spend even 1 cent of it, the doubling stops forever.

No loopholes.

No borrowing against it.

No transferring it to someone else.

The second you use it for anything — food, bills, a car, rent, even a stick of gum — the growth ends instantly.

You can watch the number rise every day, knowing that waiting just a little longer could completely change your life… but also knowing you’re one emergency away from losing the chance forever.

Would you cash out early for security?

Or risk waiting longer for generational wealth?

What day are you stopping on?

A magical pomeranian appears and offer you a deal. He will give you $1,000 for each donut you eat in the next 6 hours. However, the Pomeranian will not permit greed. If you ever eat too much to the point of vomiting, you will be instantly disqualified and, as your punishment, be allergic to donuts for the rest of your life.

What would be your strategy, and how many could you eat?

If you choose the 2 million, the money will be instantly transferred to your account.

If you choose the dragon egg it will hatch and awaken with a natural bond with you and listen to your commands, they are loyal and depending on how you raise them will determine their magic affinity.

The question could be anything, who killed JFK, do aliens exist, does god exist, how did the universe start. Can’t be a question about the future like when will bitcoin go up.

You get one question answered. What are you asking?

Would you hypothetical live in county that has no laws and no police, no ambulance? It means you can do anything.

When you move in you are provided with a weapon, 1 million EUR in cash and a house to live.

You can steal, kill, rape, do whatever you want or just live like a normal human being, but you should never forget that all citizens have the same rights as there are no laws, so you can potentially be killed, raped or robbed at any moment if you can't protect yourself.

There is no-one to help you if you are injured, ill or lost, you are totally on your own.

Would you move to such country?

You're offered something from some sorta god or whateva. One million dollars in USD every two months BUT there will be a random set of coordinates that you, ONLY YOU, will instantly die to if any part of you touches this coordinates geolocation. The coordinates will only be on a surface not covered by water and the coordinates change every month. YOU will never be made aware of the coordinates. The coordinates could be anywhere on land and it's not counting for an up & down axis, you could be exactly where it ends up when it changes while it changes. If the surface, of which the coordinates is changed to, moves then the coordinates change relative to the surfaces movement.

My petty wish would be either those who make online content and put music in will be compelled to credit the exact artist and name of the music/song including themselves if they made it, or if someone asks them what’s the music/song used, they will be compelled to accurately answer the question the next time they log in to their respective accounts.

I keep hearing about how people wouldn’t tell anyone, but that’s not an option for me. I’m disabled which means I kind of can’t drive or turn it in on my own. I have to tell somebody so. What would you do if you were in my situation I should be clear. I have not won. I’m just genuinely curious.