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Nov 03 '09 by Jellyes

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One million dollars

So, an experimenter comes up to you and presents his proposal:

Allow me to torture you for 24 hours straight...the worst torture imaginable; physical and emotional pain of the highest magnitude.

But, after the torture, your memory of the past day is completely erased. Along with this, there are no other lasting effects of the event. No physical damage/no scars/no memories/etc.etc.

For participation in this experiment, you will get $1,000,000.

Do you take up the offer?

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PuterBoy on Nov 03 '09 at 7:27pm

SuperRyan on Nov 03 '09 at 7:32pm

If you're wipped clean of the event, then it is like it never happened.

SuperRyan on Nov 03 '09 at 7:33pm

*wiped?

Jellyes on Nov 03 '09 at 7:34pm

it's like it never happened, but it did happen.

olie! on Nov 03 '09 at 7:36pm

Personally, I wouldn't know what the fuck to do with 1 million dollars even if somebody just gave it to me for free, without the torture. That much money makes people miserable in and of itself.

Jellyes on Nov 03 '09 at 7:40pm

that's true...
how about they offer you job security, upper middle-class financial stability, and a nice home with manageable mortgage.
how about then?

jet approves on Nov 03 '09 at 7:44pm

i'd probably do it. it'd really help right now.

bengineer on Nov 03 '09 at 7:45pm

that's all achievable without torture :P i could only be happy with earned money/goods and getting somethig through being tortured (which i wouldn't let anyone for money, maybe to save the lives of my family or something like that) doesn't count as earned for me.

olie! on Nov 03 '09 at 7:45pm

I probably wouldn't willingly get tortured for something I already have, more or less :)

B 7 on Nov 03 '09 at 7:45pm

Wow that is a HARD question to answer..
I'm inclined towards yes, but then I have no true concept of what the worst torture imaginable would be like, so I have no clue. That one day may feel like a million years.

the golden spatula on Nov 03 '09 at 7:45pm

NO!!!!

jet approves on Nov 03 '09 at 7:46pm

although, 24 hours straight is pretty crazy. i could deal with a few hours.

bengineer on Nov 03 '09 at 7:48pm

besides: i couldn't live with 24 hours of my memory erased. it'd haunt me and i'd spend all the money on trying to find out what he did to me.

ecsu on Nov 03 '09 at 7:48pm

does that involve a snickers bar and goose feathers?

B 7 on Nov 03 '09 at 7:49pm

Actually, a definite no
Money, even that much, does not bring any kind of lasting happines, therefore, it could never be a fair opposite to ultimate emotional torture alone, let alone the physical too.

B 7 on Nov 03 '09 at 7:49pm

But then again, i do need money

B 7 on Nov 03 '09 at 7:50pm

This is going to bug me forever

SuperRyan on Nov 03 '09 at 7:51pm

But what does it matter if it did in fact happen?

There are no memories, no evidence left over at all.

jet approves on Nov 03 '09 at 7:51pm

would you be aware that you had ever been tortured in the first place? would you just wake up in your bed and think you slept through an entire day?

kingforaday on Nov 03 '09 at 7:51pm

so its like this vicious mind fuck that you got tortured but you didnt but you got $1,000,000 but you got tortured but you..

id take the money

B 7 on Nov 03 '09 at 7:51pm

Who on earth would offer this crazy-assed deal anyway? - what would they have to gain?

jet approves on Nov 03 '09 at 7:51pm

i think i'd kind of owe it to my family to man up and do it. it wouldn't be that bad since it gets wiped from your memory anyway.

Jellyes on Nov 03 '09 at 7:53pm

I think I'd go with it. We don't really care about the REAL past, anyway...we just care about what we remember.

If someone punches you, you're clearly not going to like it. If someone punches you while you're sleeping and you don't wake, you won't have knowledge of it and don't care about it because you can't care about it. If someone punched you 10 years ago and it really hurt, you cared then...but now you've forgotten and can't care now.

...I'd definitely take the deal.

outline on Nov 03 '09 at 7:53pm

yes!

i would most certainly go through 24 hours of torture if it meant i would have the means to help people who have suffered all of their lives :)

jet approves on Nov 03 '09 at 7:53pm

yeah, cash money.

ratkiss on Nov 03 '09 at 7:54pm

Wow, I don't think I can even answer that.

B 7 on Nov 03 '09 at 7:54pm

Ah, now if you were doing it entirely so the money could benefit others, then that's a different deal altogether.

ecsu on Nov 03 '09 at 7:54pm

oh wait!! we're getting our memories erased?

uhmm.. then...

no.

outline on Nov 03 '09 at 7:54pm

ok so that sounds like a martyr/asshole, but i do mean it

Jellyes on Nov 03 '09 at 7:55pm

B 7 on Nov 03 '09 at 7:51pm
Who on earth would offer this crazy-assed deal anyway? - what would they have to gain?

maybe a wealthy sadist!

olie! on Nov 03 '09 at 7:55pm

I would think being punched in the face wouldn't really compare to the most unimaginable torture you can possibly inflict on a human being.

B 7 on Nov 03 '09 at 7:58pm

wealthy sadists suck balls

Chipmnk on Nov 03 '09 at 7:59pm

So the worst shit imaginable? Like breaking every single finger, shattering kneecaps, eating dog shit out of a public urinal, papercuts to the penis hole, all of that and more?

I'd do it but I am positive that I wouldn't be able to.

SuperRyan on Nov 03 '09 at 8:01pm

would you let a wealthy sadist suck your balls for $50?

Jellyes on Nov 03 '09 at 8:01pm

the point of that thought was not to compare the level of torture, but the impossibility of 'caring' about something you've forgotten.
in the same way, i could have said someone did something you liked at the time...e.g. gave you some ice-cream. but if you forget, the act has no lasting impact. you've forgotten it!

on that same note, the petty details of the experiment are irrelevant...the point is the conflicting motivation.
For most, I thought a million bucks would be what they 'want.' If that isn't what you want, substitute whatever you want in there and ask yourself the question.

Talking To The Ground on Nov 03 '09 at 8:03pm

NAHHHHHHHHHH

Chipmnk on Nov 03 '09 at 8:04pm

Emotional pain I could deal with but I have a really low pain tolerance.

the golden spatula on Nov 03 '09 at 8:04pm

24 fucking hours of torture!! the brain is way to awesome to EVER forget that, unless you're removing it... or parts of it. that's like being a zombie! 1.000.000 $ = zombie

NO! NEVER!

bengineer on Nov 03 '09 at 8:06pm

^no. and wealthy sadists would pay more than 1 million for 24 hours of unimaginable fun, don't you think?

bengineer on Nov 03 '09 at 8:06pm

i meant no @ superryan

the golden spatula on Nov 03 '09 at 8:08pm

a wealthy sadist wouldn't pay a fucking cent, he would just torture you to death.

kashlen on Nov 03 '09 at 8:10pm

no way

jet approves on Nov 03 '09 at 8:13pm

i'm with alvin. i'd much rather the emotional torture than the physical torture.

Malcolm Man on Nov 03 '09 at 8:15pm

If it were guaranteed that I'd actually survive. 24hrs of the worst imaginable torture would most likely kill you.

However, if it were guaranteed that I'd live, of course I'd do it.

Talking To The Ground on Nov 03 '09 at 8:18pm

^^^MASOCHIST!

Malcolm Man on Nov 03 '09 at 8:19pm

Basically, I'm willing to endure any physical/emotional pain as long as the price is right. I mean, if it has no long term effects, then why not?

Polyester Jones on Nov 03 '09 at 8:19pm

I don't know that I could trust someone who wanted to torture me like that, either to not kill me or to actually pay me

canceromega on Nov 03 '09 at 8:20pm

I would probably spend that million dollars investigating how I magically happened upon a million dollars.

mgill52 on Nov 03 '09 at 8:20pm

I would do it for 50 bucks

Malcolm Man on Nov 03 '09 at 8:21pm

"I'd much rather the emotional torture than the physical torture."

I may be naive to think this, but is it really possible to torture some one, emotionally for 24 hours? I mean, if I knew that you were just trying to get at me and break me down; I think I would be able to shut you out for that period of time. I've never had to test this, of course. Maybe I wouldn't be strong enough.

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