Some questions for you.

I just thought I'd put some random questions to you on this sunny Sunday morning. Please give reasons for your reply/answer, if possible.

Question 1:

Ok, a genie comes to you and gives you a choice between the following two options:

1. You are given 50 million pounds. You never have to work again in your life and neither does your family. You can do anything you like with it. You're set for life and can pursue every interest you could possibly have. You might travel the world, buy five houses, buy fast cars, invest the money in business, or whatever you like. However, after death you will not be remembered for anything important. After a couple of generations, it will be as if you'd never existed at all.

2. You spend your life in a menial job at a factory, testing lightbulbs. You work twelve hours a day, six days a week. You get three weeks holiday a year. Your salary is £15,000. You have to work until you are sixty-five. But, after your death, a collection of poetry that you wrote, but never had the confidence to publish, will be discovered. Critics will immediately hail you as a genius. As the years go buy, you will gradually acquire a status in literature similar to that of Shakespeare and Homer, with many considering you even better than them. Everybody will know your name, even if they are not actually familiar with your work.*

*If you choose this second option, the genie will wipe your memory. You will not be aware that after death you are destined to aquire fame.

Question 2:

If you could cure the world of HIV/AIDS by killing your Mum, would you do it?

Question 3:

If you had the power to read and control people's minds, would you bend them against their will?

Question 4:

If, by having a burning hot iron placed on your back for one minute every week, you could save five children in the world everyday, would you do it?

Question 5:

If, by stamping fifteen kittens to death every day, you could stop yourself from aging, would you do it? You will of course still die one day, but the physical signs of aging will never appear, and you will remain looking twenty years old for the rest of your life. You will not become decrepit either.

There're the questions; what are your answers?

Could you explain what you mean as I don't follow that.

Question 1:

Ok, a genie comes to you and gives you a choice between the following two options:

1. You are given 50 million pounds. You never have to work again in your life and neither does your family. You can do anything you like with it. You're set for life and can pursue every interest you could possibly have. You might travel the world, buy five houses, buy fast cars, invest the money in business, or whatever you like. However, after death you will not be remembered for anything important. After a couple of generations, it will be as if you'd never existed at all.

2. You spend your life in a menial job at a factory, testing lightbulbs. You work twelve hours a day, six days a week. You get three weeks holiday a year. Your salary is £15,000. You have to work until you are sixty-five. But, after your death, a collection of poetry that you wrote, but never had the confidence to publish, will be discovered. Critics will immediately hail you as a genius. As the years go buy, you will gradually acquire a status in literature similar to that of Shakespeare and Homer, with many considering you even better than them. Everybody will know your name, even if they are not actually familiar with your work.*

*If you choose this second option, the genie will wipe your memory. You will not be aware that after death you are destined to aquire fame.

I just thought I'd put some random questions to you on this sunny Sunday morning. Please give reasons for your reply/answer, if possible.

Question 1:

Ok, a genie comes to you and gives you a choice between the following two options:

1. You are given 50 million pounds. You never have to work again in your life and neither does your family. You can do anything you like with it. You're set for life and can pursue every interest you could possibly have. You might travel the world, buy five houses, buy fast cars, invest the money in business, or whatever you like. However, after death you will not be remembered for anything important. After a couple of generations, it will be as if you'd never existed at all.

2. You spend your life in a menial job at a factory, testing lightbulbs. You work twelve hours a day, six days a week. You get three weeks holiday a year. Your salary is £15,000. You have to work until you are sixty-five. But, after your death, a collection of poetry that you wrote, but never had the confidence to publish, will be discovered. Critics will immediately hail you as a genius. As the years go buy, you will gradually acquire a status in literature similar to that of Shakespeare and Homer, with many considering you even better than them. Everybody will know your name, even if they are not actually familiar with your work.*

*If you choose this second option, the genie will wipe your memory. You will not be aware that after death you are destined to aquire fame.

Question 2:

If you could cure the world of HIV/AIDS by killing your Mum, would you do it?

Question 3:

If you had the power to read and control people's minds, would you bend them against their will?

Question 4:

If, by having a burning hot iron placed on your back for one minute every week, you could save five children in the world everyday, would you do it?

Question 5:

If, by stamping fifteen kittens to death every day, you could stop yourself from aging, would you do it? You will of course still die one day, but the physical signs of aging will never appear, and you will remain looking twenty years old for the rest of your life. You will not become decrepit either.

There're the questions; what are your answers?

I just thought I'd put some random questions to you on this sunny Sunday morning. Please give reasons for your reply/answer, if possible.

Question 1:

Ok, a genie comes to you and gives you a choice between the following two options:

1. You are given 50 million pounds. You never have to work again in your life and neither does your family. You can do anything you like with it. You're set for life and can pursue every interest you could possibly have. You might travel the world, buy five houses, buy fast cars, invest the money in business, or whatever you like. However, after death you will not be remembered for anything important. After a couple of generations, it will be as if you'd never existed at all.

2. You spend your life in a menial job at a factory, testing lightbulbs. You work twelve hours a day, six days a week. You get three weeks holiday a year. Your salary is £15,000. You have to work until you are sixty-five. But, after your death, a collection of poetry that you wrote, but never had the confidence to publish, will be discovered. Critics will immediately hail you as a genius. As the years go buy, you will gradually acquire a status in literature similar to that of Shakespeare and Homer, with many considering you even better than them. Everybody will know your name, even if they are not actually familiar with your work.*

*If you choose this second option, the genie will wipe your memory. You will not be aware that after death you are destined to aquire fame.

Question 2:

If you could cure the world of HIV/AIDS by killing your Mum, would you do it?

Question 3:

If you had the power to read and control people's minds, would you bend them against their will?

Question 4:

If, by having a burning hot iron placed on your back for one minute every week, you could save five children in the world everyday, would you do it?

Question 5:

If, by stamping fifteen kittens to death every day, you could stop yourself from aging, would you do it? You will of course still die one day, but the physical signs of aging will never appear, and you will remain looking twenty years old for the rest of your life. You will not become decrepit either.

There're the questions; what are your answers?

A=>B says nothing about how likely it is that A will happen. The OP is making no judgment on the likelihood of these situations arising is, but only what would happen if they did.