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Death or Insanity?

Xyrin

Xyrin

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    Note, this isn't mine, saw it on a YouTube video.


    Ok. You were captured by a testing facility. They give you the option of two rooms. You can stay in a room and you can get anything you want. You can also have an exact clone of anyone you want, but only one clone at a time. You have to stay in this room for 25 years. With no human contact besides that clone, or you can be in a room where you get nothing, no food or human contact, but you get a revolver with one bullet.

    So the choice is death or insanity. You will go insane in the first room no matter what you do.

    I would choose the first room. I might have no social skills when I come out but I would have time to have my favorite artists teach me how to play music! I could have a scientist tell me any calculation I want! I would come out insane but smart. ;)
     
    I don't see why you would go insane just from having the only social contact coming from a clone. A clone's still a different person from you. Assuming you mean a copy with identical memories and such, it's only the same at the moment of its cloning. After that, it starts to differ from you. I think I could have a lot of intellectual discussions where I take one side and my clone takes the other and we figure out some of the deeper mysteries of the human condition.
     
    Well... I don't see why I would go insane in the first room, so that one I guess...

    If I were to actually go insane, I would pick death though.
     
    I suppose death. Not because of the insanity, but because being deprived of human contact for that long is just unbearable, especially if I have people that I love. D:
     
    I would rather death than a meaningless 25 years secluded in a room with my own shadow. Putting me out of my misery would be more kinder than that ticket to insanity.

    ...I am going to look back at this post and realise how morbid it actually sounds. XD
     
    Give me the room with the gun, cause I'm not going to live fake happiness in a room for 25 years only to come out insane and die in my own mind.
     
    Oh god. On one hand, I'd be too afraid to actually shoot myself. On the other, I'd be too afraid of living 25 years and slowly losing my mind.

    In the end, I'd probably chicken out and stay in the room for 25 years, as much as I'd feel death would be kinder in the long run. @___@;
     
    I wouldn't have the guts to use the gun so I'll take the first room. :B Especially since I can clone pretty much anyone--not just me. Assuming said person still has the same memories from the moment they were cloned, it'd be... not much different from ACTUALLY having human contact. If they didn't have memories, I'd just ask for people I didn't know so the pain of I-know-them-but-they-don't-know-me doesn't happen. Really, if you think about it, it wouldn't be much of a change from (before the internet) moving to a new city where you don't know anyone... except that you can only see one person at a time and you can't like... get a job or anything, haha. But if you get anything you want, there's plenty of hobbies and skills you could learn in that time. Clone some famous lecturers and essentially learn university courses with a one-on-one tutor if you're bored!

    I guess in the back of your mind you'd have that niggling reminder that it's all a facade but really, you'd probably learn to ignore that. I think by the end you'd be afraid of coming out of the room moreso than insane. Which I suppose would probably be a mental disability of sorts but I dunno if I'd say it was outright insanity. :P
     
    this is a fun topic

    I don't think you'd be able to do aaall that much. You'd probably be kinda emotionally/socially crippled by never interacting with more than one person and never leaving one room for 25 years. So I dunno if anyone could be good leader potential after that, you'd have so many huge world events to catch up on to ensure you could even fit in with people who'd lived through them, goddamn imagine your email inbox, and you wouldn't know any economic trends or anything. :( Unless there was a TV with satellite/cable or something. Which I guess would make sense if you can get whatever you want but sort of defeats the isolationist point so I assume you'd be blocked off from that... or internet at the very least.

    And really, probably only your family would even contact you after 25 whole years away. Everyone else would probably just go "ohh yeah I guess I remember you" if you contacted them and it'd be no different from resuming contact with a childhood friend you chanced upon on Facebook or something. :B
     
    How big is the room? Because if it's a fairly large room I wouldn't necessarily feel trapped, especially with anything I want and a rotation of anyone-I-want clones. If it were a small room I think I'd feel trapped much more easily.

    There are so many ways this doesn't really work though. Let's say I choose not to die, but after a few years decide it's awful and want to die afterall. If I can have anything I want I can even choose something that would cause a painless death. Seems like an easy choice.
     
    Hmhmhm . . .

    HAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAA!

    For someone like me who has practically already lost his mind, the first room is the way forward! I don't really have much to lose by spending 25 years with a clone of my choice, which can change whenever I so desire.

    I'd get a clone of a world class Karate instructor to help me become more powerful.

    I'd also get a clone of a Yugioh pro duelist to duel against and give me advice on my deck and such.

    Then like Erica, further my studies in Mathematics / Physics.

    I could do that all day every day. Have the occasional Pokemon battle thrown into the mix as well as other two player video games that I like. I could play through all the new RPG games that are released too!

    I have barely anything to lose by entering the first room.

    When the time is up, I will have solved the equation to successfully divide by zero and then I WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING! IT DOESN'T MATTER IF I'M CUT OFF FROM THE WORLD FOR 25 YEARS IF IN A MATTER OF MOMENTS UPON MY RETURN, I PLUNGE THE WORLD INTO ETERNAL DARKNESS!

    HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!
     
    sammi-san said:
    Oh god. On one hand, I'd be too afraid to actually shoot myself. On the other, I'd be too afraid of living 25 years and slowly losing my mind.

    In the end, I'd probably chicken out and stay in the room for 25 years, as much as I'd feel death would be kinder in the long run. @___@;
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    This.

    I'd probably die of insanity if I choose the first one before the 25 years are up though.
     
    I'd go with the first room, with insanity you pretty much know what your getting into and it cant really be a bad thing. the whole reason you'd go insane is so you could cope so therefore your brain would give you something positive. Death on the other hand you don't know what's going to happen. You could be living in eternal darkness or something.

    So yea, Insanity.
     
    I'm gonna go with the first room. Many reasons because I can ask for anything I want, which means the top-of-the-line FPS' , as well as a clone of anyone I want. And If I can't take it, I'll just ask for a gun to kill myself with :3
     
    I'll pick the second room, not for the obvious reason of not having real or fake human contact, but I'll actually have time to think about life & the universe, etc, & I'll finally have time to do some meditation (+I prefer death over insanity).
     
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    I would choose the first room.

    Death is the worst thing that can ever potentially happen. Therefore I must avoid it unconditionally... Insanity will get a niiice big hug.
     
    I would walk into the room of death, the second room.

    It would be very tough to pull that trigger. but 25 years in a room with one clone at a time? That's probably about a third of your life gone. I'd be 42 will I'd get out and I'd be insane from being deprived of human contact.
     
    Barely a choice: room one. I might be a little off when I get out but I'd have everything I needed otherwise. There was no stated limit on how long one clone stays, or how many clones you can see total, so that sounds like a pretty great deal to me.
     
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