The forums are all going pretty slow so I thought this would be a good way to get some movement. Feel free to do multiple (just make sure you don't break the triple posting/spam rules, this isn't the undercurrent!). Include the number of which question you are answering. The credit for some of the longer ones go to Chuck Klosterman, creator of the game "Hypertheticals". Go ahead and pick your poison:
I apologize if this belongs in a different category, I wasn't sure where else to put this. Feel free to suggest new questions to add to this and I will update it if I think it fits and is thought-provoking enough.
1. You get to create a sitcom, guaranteed to air. What would it be about and how would the production work (i.e. would you have laugh tracks, what tropes are in it, how would you work with censorship)?
2. If you got to have any magical power (not super power, this is fantasy magic), what would it be and how would it function? -OR- What stereotypical power seems like a really trash power, magical or super (reading thoughts, flight, being invisible, etc.)
3. You get to solve one big problem in the world. What would the issue be and/or what would you change in the world to fix it?
4. Do you think that war can end at some point and people would no longer engage in it, or do you believe that it's too far ingrained within society to come to a final end?
5. In a zombie apocalypse, you get the choice of one very untraditional weapon (no guns, bows, knives, etc), what would it be?
2. If you got to have any magical power (not super power, this is fantasy magic), what would it be and how would it function? -OR- What stereotypical power seems like a really trash power, magical or super (reading thoughts, flight, being invisible, etc.)
3. You get to solve one big problem in the world. What would the issue be and/or what would you change in the world to fix it?
4. Do you think that war can end at some point and people would no longer engage in it, or do you believe that it's too far ingrained within society to come to a final end?
5. In a zombie apocalypse, you get the choice of one very untraditional weapon (no guns, bows, knives, etc), what would it be?
6. You get to finally have your dream career instantly and be paid graciously, but in the process you will lose your mind. Would you choose to continue and have your dream career or stay in your current state to save your sanity?
7. You're now in a youtube group with your best friends, creating genuinely good content together that people love. The problem is - one of the members slowly starts to get more power/money hungry and starts changing the group dynamic, slowly making members leave out of frustration with the path the group dynamic is headed. Would you break off with some of the group members and abandon anyone that doesn't choose to come along or attempt to (and more-than-possibly fail) to bring the dynamic back to its original state?
8. Wattpad becomes a platform for new authors to make actual stories that they can't get published (for whatever reason) after fanfiction is banned. The quality of the new abundance of stories are much much higher than before the ban happens. Would you read the stories or avoid it to save your image due to Wattpad's legacy?
9. You are able to send a letter to yourself at any past stage of your life. You only get one sheet of wide-ruled notebook paper to get all of your points across (you cannot write multiple layers of text on a single line of the notebook paper). What age/stage of life would you send the letter and what would you tell yourself?
10. You own a multiplex building that has three seperate units in it. You are planning to move into one of them while collecting rent money from the other two units, but have medical/psychological needs that require someone to take care of you in a manor (it's not too serious, rather just inconvenient) and you have no one to move in to make sure you're okay. Because of this, you have to live with your parent(s) for the time being. Someone that you're close with that lives in another state is willing to move in with you to take care of you but they have to stay where they are for the time being for college or some other reason keeping them there. They will move to your city in four years, so in the meantime you decide to rent out all three of them, but when you need to move out, you would have to kick someone out in order to live there. You cannot move into a different building at that point until you can afford to buy another property, which would take years more than when you friend will move. Would you be okay with kicking someone to the curb (and losing their rent money) in order to finally live (kind of) on your own?
7. You're now in a youtube group with your best friends, creating genuinely good content together that people love. The problem is - one of the members slowly starts to get more power/money hungry and starts changing the group dynamic, slowly making members leave out of frustration with the path the group dynamic is headed. Would you break off with some of the group members and abandon anyone that doesn't choose to come along or attempt to (and more-than-possibly fail) to bring the dynamic back to its original state?
8. Wattpad becomes a platform for new authors to make actual stories that they can't get published (for whatever reason) after fanfiction is banned. The quality of the new abundance of stories are much much higher than before the ban happens. Would you read the stories or avoid it to save your image due to Wattpad's legacy?
9. You are able to send a letter to yourself at any past stage of your life. You only get one sheet of wide-ruled notebook paper to get all of your points across (you cannot write multiple layers of text on a single line of the notebook paper). What age/stage of life would you send the letter and what would you tell yourself?
10. You own a multiplex building that has three seperate units in it. You are planning to move into one of them while collecting rent money from the other two units, but have medical/psychological needs that require someone to take care of you in a manor (it's not too serious, rather just inconvenient) and you have no one to move in to make sure you're okay. Because of this, you have to live with your parent(s) for the time being. Someone that you're close with that lives in another state is willing to move in with you to take care of you but they have to stay where they are for the time being for college or some other reason keeping them there. They will move to your city in four years, so in the meantime you decide to rent out all three of them, but when you need to move out, you would have to kick someone out in order to live there. You cannot move into a different building at that point until you can afford to buy another property, which would take years more than when you friend will move. Would you be okay with kicking someone to the curb (and losing their rent money) in order to finally live (kind of) on your own?
11. Some animals have the same level of sentience and intelligence as the average human, and also have proper vocal chords to communicate in human languages and can cross-breed with humans, making animal-human hybrids. Do you believe it would be morally okay for intimate relations with these animals to exist since they can fully consent and understand consent or is it too far in a moral grey area for it to be morally okay?
12. You/your partner (pretend one of you is a girl if the relationship is two men) are pregnant and very excited to have a child together. You've tried for years but nothing ever happened until now. During a checkup for the pregnancy, the doctor tells you the child will have down syndrome. Would you terminate the pregnancy to avoid having someone that would live with the struggles of down syndrome or not?
13. Someone builds a paranormal "Honesty Room." Within the walls of this room, it is impossible for anyone to tell lies (or to avoid answering whatever questions they are asked). This same inventor also creates a memory loss drug that is released into the air inside the Honesty Room as an airborne mist; what this means is that people who enter the Honesty Room will not remember what they said, what questions they were asked, or even that they were ever there. The only antidote to the memory loss drug is a pill, and you have this pill. So--in essence--you have access to a room where every guest who enters will tell you the absolute truth (about anything) and then immediately forget what they were asked and what they said. But you will retain everything you learn. You get to go in with a convicted criminal or someone who is suspected to have committed/been involved in a crime. Who would you bring in, and what would you ask them?
14. At long last, someone invents "the dream VCR." This machine allows you to tape an entire evening's worth of your own dreams, which you can then watch at your leisure. However, the inventor of the dream VCR will only allow you to use this device of you agree to a strange caveat: When you watch your dreams, you must do so with your family and your closest friends in the same room. They get to watch your dreams along with you. And if you don't agree to this, you can't use the dream VCR. Would you still do this?
15. You are hired by the government to help solve crimes related to murder or suicide, since you are a well-known medium that can actually talk to spirits (unlike all the phony tv show scammers). You are able to interview the spirits of the murdered individual(s) (or individual(s) that are suspected to be suicides but people are unsure of) to find out who killed them at their death sites. A long since closed case is being highly scrutinized by people across the world since the evidence around said case is very fishy. You are told that this case takes place on private property that the owner is very not okay with letting you on, which has ramifications with your career as a spiritual investigator. The court does not allow you a permit to be on the property without the owner's permission. In short - you are given the chance to finally put this huge and rather suspicious case to rest, but in the process you can possibly be fired and prosecuted for trespassing. Would you still go forward with your investigation in hopes to find the truth or would you avoid it to make sure you won't lose your job?
12. You/your partner (pretend one of you is a girl if the relationship is two men) are pregnant and very excited to have a child together. You've tried for years but nothing ever happened until now. During a checkup for the pregnancy, the doctor tells you the child will have down syndrome. Would you terminate the pregnancy to avoid having someone that would live with the struggles of down syndrome or not?
13. Someone builds a paranormal "Honesty Room." Within the walls of this room, it is impossible for anyone to tell lies (or to avoid answering whatever questions they are asked). This same inventor also creates a memory loss drug that is released into the air inside the Honesty Room as an airborne mist; what this means is that people who enter the Honesty Room will not remember what they said, what questions they were asked, or even that they were ever there. The only antidote to the memory loss drug is a pill, and you have this pill. So--in essence--you have access to a room where every guest who enters will tell you the absolute truth (about anything) and then immediately forget what they were asked and what they said. But you will retain everything you learn. You get to go in with a convicted criminal or someone who is suspected to have committed/been involved in a crime. Who would you bring in, and what would you ask them?
14. At long last, someone invents "the dream VCR." This machine allows you to tape an entire evening's worth of your own dreams, which you can then watch at your leisure. However, the inventor of the dream VCR will only allow you to use this device of you agree to a strange caveat: When you watch your dreams, you must do so with your family and your closest friends in the same room. They get to watch your dreams along with you. And if you don't agree to this, you can't use the dream VCR. Would you still do this?
15. You are hired by the government to help solve crimes related to murder or suicide, since you are a well-known medium that can actually talk to spirits (unlike all the phony tv show scammers). You are able to interview the spirits of the murdered individual(s) (or individual(s) that are suspected to be suicides but people are unsure of) to find out who killed them at their death sites. A long since closed case is being highly scrutinized by people across the world since the evidence around said case is very fishy. You are told that this case takes place on private property that the owner is very not okay with letting you on, which has ramifications with your career as a spiritual investigator. The court does not allow you a permit to be on the property without the owner's permission. In short - you are given the chance to finally put this huge and rather suspicious case to rest, but in the process you can possibly be fired and prosecuted for trespassing. Would you still go forward with your investigation in hopes to find the truth or would you avoid it to make sure you won't lose your job?
I apologize if this belongs in a different category, I wasn't sure where else to put this. Feel free to suggest new questions to add to this and I will update it if I think it fits and is thought-provoking enough.
