Tag: The Book of Questions

If it were the only way you could remain with the love of your life, would you be willing for both of you to wake up tomorrow as native speakers of an unfamiliar foreign language, knowing that within a week you'd permanently forget the languages you now speak and largely be cut off from your … Continue reading Love of My Life?

For $100,000, would you put on 40 pounds and keep it on for 3 years? How much money, if any, would you induce you to put on 100 pounds for at least a year? Um can you say no fucking way! Now you are going to say it's just your weight. It doesn't change you. … Continue reading Body Image

Would you like there to be a law requiring the police to archive video footage of everything they do while on duty? You mean like they do in all those sci-fi flicks. And they use it against you later? I think there was a Black Mirror episode on that where the girl was cheating on … Continue reading Video Footage

If your heart were damaged beyond repair, but you could regain our health for a few more years by getting a heart transplant from a genetically engineered pig, would you? Well, the point is moot for me except maybe if someone pulled my heart out and stomped on it. But then again you should be … Continue reading Genetically Engineered

On a typical Sunday, 10,000 people visit the Louvre in Paris. If a wicked sorcerer threatened to vaporize all the museum's visitors or all of its art, sparing one or the base on your please, which would you save? Assume the sorcerer will obliterate both the people and the art if you don't choose. This … Continue reading All In a Day

If you could anonymously and safely destroy any one person's reputation online through various postings, would you? If so, who and why? Anyone who knows me knows that I wouldn't do this. No one deserves to have their life ruined online or otherwise. I mean I let the guy who hurt me as a child … Continue reading Reputation