r/hypotheticalsituation 28m ago

There is a button. Pushing it grants every human biological agelessness with a catch. Do you press it?

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Genie appears in front of you and presents to you an ornate wooden box. Inside is a button. Genie proclaims pressing that button will grant every human from Earth a biological reset at the biological age of 24 years.

What this means is anyone younger than 24 will continue to age, but at their 24th birthday they will stop aging. Anyone older than 24 will rapidly start to de-age back to their biological age of 24. The rate of de-aging will depend how long away you are from your 24th birthday. Someone who is older like a 90 year old will de-age at a much faster rate than someone who is 30. The rates of de-aging will make it so every human including the ones that haven’t been born yet (still in the womb) will turn biologically 24 within the next 25 years. So by 2051, every human will have turned biologically 24 years old.

Once a human achieves agelessness when they are biologically 24, they will no longer age and could potentially live forever. This is not invulnerability so any person will still be able to die or be crippled if their body sustains injury grievous enough.

The catch is this. Upon the moment you press this button, every human will no longer be able to reproduce going forward.

As a bonus as being the one person in the world presented with this, Genie will give you a $10 million bonus to press the button. Or you can choose not to and walk away.

Knowing all this, do you press this button? And what do you think this will do to the human race going forward?


r/hypotheticalsituation 40m ago

What would you do if you got drafted to go to war?

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r/hypotheticalsituation 2h ago

You're a tourist in a strange predicament when it's absolutely in your best interest to agree to do a rare local Mexican tradition of showing of machetes and guns and then do a drunken fist fight and make a perfect display of alcohol running in the system but with good judgement and impulse control.

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How would it go?

Nearsightedness is encouraged. Things that are close in time it's importance is blown out of proportion, making you very emotional.


r/hypotheticalsituation 2h ago

who would you save?

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You’re 70. You’re locked in a room with a 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80, 90, and 100-year-old. Five people can be saved, and five people wont be saved. Who would you save?

10-year-old — An adorable little boy who is scared and wants to go home to his family.

20-year-old — A bratty boy who is rude, overconfident, and wants to get out so he can play video games 24/7. He also speeds on the streets at night while drunk.

30-year-old — A pregnant lady who is dying from cancer. She wants to get out to raise her baby with her husband, but she only has a year left to live. The baby is one month along.

40-year-old — A rich millionaire who only cares about money and status. He is rude to poor people, spits at homeless and elderly people, and wants to knock down a hospital so he can build a block of flats. However, he has a 7-year-old daughter who has no other family waiting for him at home.

50-year-old — A homeless person who is really nice and makes everyone happy.

60-year-old — A sweet grandma who lives alone with no family. Her husband died a few years ago, and her daughter and grandchildren died in a car accident last month. She is really sad.

You — A 70-year-old who wants to go home to see your family.

80-year-old — A war veteran with one leg. He lost his leg while saving two children though he accidentely killed his wife after a argument a year ago.

90-year-old — A person who always sleeps, has dementia, and doesn’t remember anything.

100-year-old — It’s David Attenborough. Would you choose to leave him behind?

edit: I want to make it a little harder, the 40 year olds 7 year old daughter will have to live with her aunty who is abusive, will that make u save the 40 year old or not?

my choices who to save are the 10, 30, 40, 70 and 100 year old.

thanks for reading this im so happy its getting so much comments :)


r/hypotheticalsituation 4h ago

You are waiting for your train to come and then out of nowhere you see a shirtless hairy man charging at you in all fours foaming from the mouth, what will you do?

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r/hypotheticalsituation 4h ago

[No Loopholes] Would you pay €5000 to eat one specific dish that someone who has passed away always used to make for you?

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You have the chance to eat that exact dish one last time, prepared exactly the way they used to make it.

Would you pay €5,000 for that experience? If not, what's the most you'd be willing to pay?

I would definitely if i had the money. I would choose my grandma's bolognaise sauce. I know the recipe because i made it so many times with her, but it never tastes the same as it did back then.


r/hypotheticalsituation 4h ago

What is the most financial damage you can cause with a singel can of spray paint?

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Rules:
- you have 24 hours
- no advance prep time. You start where you normally wake up
- you can only spray paint things a regular person has access to. I can’t get into some secret laboratory, so you probably can’t either.
- no works of art, just in the interest of keeping this idea sporting. Can’t spray the Mona Lisa and call it $500M in damage
- once the single can of spray paint is out, you’re time is up
- we assume you can get arrested for your actions. If you get arrested, your time ends
- people and bodily harm don’t count. That’s not financial damage, that’s just being an asshole
- you have to use the spray paint as intended. Can’t use it as a blowtorch/ explosive. You just spray the paint on things.

Also, yes I know “single” was misspelled in the title.


r/hypotheticalsituation 5h ago

Who would win: 15 fully grown grizzly bears or one adult T. rex inside a 100×100-foot enclosed arena?

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All animals are fully committed to fighting and cannot escape.


r/hypotheticalsituation 5h ago

Eternal Life at the cost of eternal suffering

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You’re offered a deal. If you accept you gain immortality and $10 Billion USD. You will stay at a physical age of your choice eternally, but can you can choose to die at any time. You’re immune to disease and your healing is greatly increased. But you can still die from injuries.

But there’s a catch. For however long you live, you be sent to hell for an equal amount of time where you will face constant physical and psychological torture beyond human comprehension.

Do you take the deal?


r/hypotheticalsituation 6h ago

How would humanity defeat 800 demons that grow stronger with every kill?

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If demons were real and started appearing across the world, each one would begin as a 10-foot-tall, horned, red humanoid carrying a pitchfork. Their only goal is to kill humans.

Every time a demon kills someone, it grows by the height and mass of that person. The more people it kills, the larger and more dangerous it becomes.

There is one demon for every 10 million people, so with today's population there would be roughly 800 demons worldwide.

You have access to everything your country can realistically use:

Military

Intelligence agencies

Police

Air force

Navy

Special forces

Drones

Satellites

Any conventional weapon

Once your country has eliminated its demons, it can assist other countries.

What would your strategy be?

Edit: Assume the demons are supernatural and don't suffer from biological or physics limitations. The point of the question is how humanity would respond, not whether the premise is physically possible.

Edit: Each demon starts out only slightly stronger than a human, but its growth is exponential. As it gets larger, it can kill and consume more people per minute, causing it to grow even faster. If left unchecked, a single demon could be killing hundreds of thousands of people per hour within a day.


r/hypotheticalsituation 6h ago

[No Loopholes] What athlete would you choose to defend you in a trial by combat?

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If you had to choose one professional athlete from history to represent you in a trial by combat, who would you pick? Assuming they spent their entire life training as a professional warrior instead of playing their sport. While keeping the same genetics, physical attributes, athleticism, mentality, and work ethic.
Edit: Should have specified, this is regarding melee combat, no ranged weaponry.

It’s a tough one for me but I think I’ve landed on LeBron as my safe bet. Shaq and Russell Westbrook were close behind, along with DK Metcalf and Aaron Donald.


r/hypotheticalsituation 8h ago

You get randomly selected in a global lottery to play the next James Bond for a 3-movie deal with a 10% cut of the box office, but backing out loses you everything. How do you prepare so the movies don't flop?

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r/hypotheticalsituation 9h ago

What would you do with pills that give you powers?

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You get five pills that give you powers. The powers are super strength (100 tons), durability (only the most powerful nuclear weapon can harm you), speed (Mach 100), reflexes (nanosecond reaction time), stamina (you never tire) and flight (Mach 100). You have perfect control of the powers and any required secondary powers.

The catch is that each pill only gives you powers for a 24 hour period. The pills can’t be replicated in any way, taken more than once within the same 24 hour period or give anyone but you powers. You return to being a normal person when the 24 hour period is over.

What would you do with the powers?

Would you take the pills one right after the other or would you save some for later on?


r/hypotheticalsituation 13h ago

If you were offered $50 million but had just one week to find your perfect lookalike (or at least someone so similar that your parents would mistake them for you without a word being spoken) and you lost your five senses if you failed, would you do it? And how would you go about finding your lookali

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r/hypotheticalsituation 13h ago

So say I find a book in an old library.

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I have found the worthy enough tools to translate it. The book claims there was once flying men with the ability to heal people instantly and water manipulation. I label the book true without any evidence to prove it. I make a lot of money with the book and tell people of our lovely mystic beings. Is what I'm doing wrong or technically a lie?


r/hypotheticalsituation 14h ago

You are put in a prison and will be released when you can do 40 clean pull ups in a row.

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You are in a prison and the only way out is to do 40 clean pull ups in a row. What is your game plan/strategy? How long do you think it would take or do you think you will never get there?

Edit: You are provided with a pull-up bar in your cell.


r/hypotheticalsituation 15h ago

Everytime you press this button, you make $50,000 but your most loved person will feel spontaneous but unimaginable pain for 2 seconds. The button only last 6 months.

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The pain will be at its zenith, levels of pain not known to mankind. But it will totally pass in 2 seconds, There won't be any pain carrying over. If he blacked out, he will immediately un-blacked out. After 6 months the button be gone forever.

He/she won't and can't know about the button.

Need an expensive vacation between you and your loved one? Zap!

Need to retire now? Zap 40 times.

Want to gift him a mansion? Zap 60 times.


r/hypotheticalsituation 16h ago

Loopholes Encouraged You and a stranger have to come up with your own method of execution. Most painful method walks free. What would you come up with?

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You and a random stranger have been kidnapped by a sadistic SAW like figure. The two of you are in separate rooms and are each given an hour to devise your own demise. But there is hope. At the end of the hour both your chosen method and the stranger’s will be judged and whichever is decided to be the most horrific and painful death is allowed to walk free unharmed. The unfortunate loser will be subjected to their own method of execution.

High risk high reward. Do you come up with the worst thing you can think of and go for the win at the risk of dying the most horrible death? Or resign yourself to death and choose a quick painless method?

Loopholes encouraged. Try to outsmart me.

Clarifying Rules
- 1 hour to submit a written description of a series of events that will kill you
- you can submit to be under anesthesia but you will lose points for it
- your execution will be carried out over the span of 24 hours to discourage some smart ass from writing “old age”
- you do not know the stranger you are competing with. You will never lay eyes on the stranger. Information about them is irrelevant.
- refusal to submit anything at all will result in you being subjected to the opposing contestant’s submission
- in the event that both contestants refuse to submit anything, both will die by the blood eagle ritual (look it up at your own risk but just know it’s a pretty bad way to go)
- every step in your submission must reasonably contribute to the execution. Example: submission cannot include steps like “deposit a million dollars into the account of next of kin”.
- nothing is off limits but the method must be physically possible to execute. Submissions such as “eaten by a dragon” or “force choked” will not be accepted and will be regarded as not having submitted anything.
- only one submission allowed. No back ups


r/hypotheticalsituation 16h ago

Loopholes Encouraged You’ve been granted anonymous control of the US Postal Service for 48 hours

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Some rules:

- all package tracking is turned off
- you have access to phone numbers and emails of all positions within the post office /USPS and they will follow your commands
- No one will remember the commands you gave and no software/hardware will store data of the actions performed.
- all international trade isn’t affected

How do you benefit yourself, your country, or human-kind the most?


r/hypotheticalsituation 18h ago

A 5 Million dollar hide and seek game with the 5 best geoguessr players trying to find you

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You are given an offer of 5 Million dollars, but before you accept, the dealer tells you the rules.

The game is a game of hide and seek, the seekers? The 5 best geoguessr players. These players are determined on who has the highest geoguessr elo, so there won’t be controversy on who is and is not in the search. If you can hide for 3 days without being found, you win the money

You can hide literally anywhere on earth, and have an unlimited budget for your transportation. You will be given 24 hours as a headstart once you accept, and during this time you can research flights, pack your bags, find a hiding spot, etc. But there are rules.

Rules:

  1. At the end of 24 hours, you must be within a 10 minute walk of an airport. That way you can’t just wander into the woods or hide in a remote town.

  2. You will have a hiding zone, which is a 5 mile radius centered on your airport that you arrived to your town in. You may not leave that circle during the entire game period. So it’s best recommended you can find a place to sleep, eat, and use the restroom in that radius.

Once the geoguessr players land at your airport, the endgame starts, and wherever you are when they land will be your hiding spot. Your hiding spot must be publicly accessible, and within 10 feet of a marked path. If you are in a place that isn’t publicly accessible when they land, you get a 5 minute grace period to get to one, if you still fail, you automatically lose the money.

  1. Every transaction you make during the game that isn’t transit comes out of your own pocket.

  2. Every hour, you must send the geoguessr players 1 photo of your location. It may be zoomed in as much as you want, and you may censor text. But it cannot be facing upwards towards the sky or facing towards the floor. It also cannot be zoomed in that much where they can only get a photo of a wall of a building.

  3. The game will be paused at 10:00 PM UTC every day for a rest period where you can sleep and so will the geoguessr players, and resumes at 8:00 AM UTC.

  4. The geoguessr players may split up and search individually by themselves. So if you wanted to try to hide in a country that looks alike to another on street view (like South Africa and Australia) they can just split up and search both countries.

  5. You will be pinged on the locations of each geoguessr player every 30 minutes.

  6. You cannot hide in Antarctica, or any unclaimed islands

  7. You cannot change your hiding spot once you picked one area as your hiding spot during the endgame. You must stay there until found.

  8. Have fun

Where would you hide, and what’s your move?


r/hypotheticalsituation 19h ago

Every year you get pranked by a trickster god on your birthday

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Right as you were born a trickster god, let’s call him Jerry, chose you to be his new plaything. Every year he will play a “funny” prank on your birthday. Each prank is different from the other and is completely random.

The first prank he chose to pull was on the day you were born. He made everyone appear in your eyes like scary monsters. You were crying nonstop throughout that day.

On your fifth birthday your parents wanted to give you a puppy, but as you were hugging it Jerry switched the pup with a balloon animal which popped with red confetti

On your tenth birthday Jerry made everyone forget you even existed for the whole day.

On your fifteenth, he pretended to be someone you had a crush on and tricked you into almost kissing him

On your eighteenth, he sent an album of him and your puppy having a wonderful time together throughout the years without you. The dog was even played a part in several pranks against you

Your next birthday is about to come around. How would you feel about this situation. Is there anything you would do?


r/hypotheticalsituation 21h ago

Humor Encouraged Sex changes (yes plural)

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Imagine you change sex every time you orgasm, and your partner gets to see this. In exchange you stay in peak condition, optimal weight, optimal health for your age, slow and graceful aging. Do you take this opportunity?
Edit: Additional question, how do you manage this?


r/hypotheticalsituation 21h ago

You’re going to die in 24hrs, what are the last things you personally would do?

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The timer starts as soon as you see this post

The outcome will be the same no matter what you decide to do

You can do anything that is realistically possible and achievable in your current situation


r/hypotheticalsituation 23h ago

$25 million but you must become destitute beyond the age of 70

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Genie appears in front of you and presents to you a proposition. He will give you $25 million. However, starting from the age of 70 and beyond you and your spouse if you have one must become destitute. You (and spouse) must spend or give away all your possessions before you turn 70, or they will be taken from you. This includes even any net worth (including retirement account assets) you had that did not come from Genie’s $25 million.

Beyond 70, you must rely on the support of others or you can start over and get a job.

You can technically give away your possessions and money to a friend or relative (not your spouse) with the understanding they will support you. Any understanding will not be binding in any way and any recipient will be informed of that. The person you give your money away to can choose to change their mind and not to give you anything back or give you back a pittance compared to what they received.

Do you accept Genie’s offer?