If you knew beforehand your life would turn out like this, would you have clicked OK or Cancel to being born?
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Tuco
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I picked OK.
Depending on the person I kind of respect someone who would pick Cancel, but chooses to live a productive life. I'm pretty happy overall but it wouldn't take a few acts fundamentally outside my control to contemplate that it all wasn't worth it.
Depending on the person I kind of respect someone who would pick Cancel, but chooses to live a productive life. I'm pretty happy overall but it wouldn't take a few acts fundamentally outside my control to contemplate that it all wasn't worth it.
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I figure if they had told me...
You're going to have a good childhood, but you'll get picked on some. You're going to have a blast in high school (but you'll be one of the nerds that isn't ever super popular), be the center of a social circle throughout your 20's, then marry a woman who makes really great mashed potatoes in your 30's... Your biggest heartbreak you won't see coming is that you're really going to want to have kids, and you and the mashed potato woman won't be able to have any.
I don't see how I turn that down. Dice could have rolled a hell of a lot worse for me.
You're going to have a good childhood, but you'll get picked on some. You're going to have a blast in high school (but you'll be one of the nerds that isn't ever super popular), be the center of a social circle throughout your 20's, then marry a woman who makes really great mashed potatoes in your 30's... Your biggest heartbreak you won't see coming is that you're really going to want to have kids, and you and the mashed potato woman won't be able to have any.
I don't see how I turn that down. Dice could have rolled a hell of a lot worse for me.
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Cutlery
Kill All the White People
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I can't see mashed potatoes being worth my girls.
I'd eat terrible mashed potatoes the rest of my life for them. All lumpy and shit.
Control
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Anyone posting here should be able to imagine a range of possible outcomes with some rough estimate of the probabilities, and we all rolled pretty fucking well. That's not to say life doesn't shit all over us sometimes, but a pretty fucking large % of everyone who's ever lived would extatically trade their roll with a random poster here. If you find yourself doubting this, find something you enjoy and do the fuck out of it. If you can't possibly find the tiniest bit of joy in anything, do something that will help someone else. Even when shit gets really dark, there's always something that's worth doing. All our rolls were worth it.
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ToeMissile
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Yeah, but the hypothetical isn't about getting a "do over", it's about if you'd chose to be born or not.
moonarchia
The Scientific Shitlord
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He stipulated pre-knowledge of things, so that would be a do over to some degree. I know lots of changes I would make if I knew how things were going to end up.
Cutlery
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Oh, right. Forgot it was a nonsense question.
What's the alternative to being born again? I forget.
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If you were not born you don't exist. Like, at all. Just as the countles others that were never born. You were a potential, but it didn't happen. It's not a literal question.
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