Hiya guys! Shiny here with another discussion. Today its a Would you Rather discussion.
The question is "You have to either live 500 years in the past or 500 years in the future. Which do you choose?". Would you want to live hundreds of years ago or hundreds of years in the future?
Personally I would prefer living 500 years in the future. I wonder how awesome things would of turned by then. Flying cars? Life on Mars?
What would you choose and why?
That's a tricky question. what most people who've replied, however, are ignoring one key detail to this question: you get to live for 500 years. that's almost 7 times the average human lifespan. since it doesn't specify whether or not i actually
need to survive properly to get to live those 500 years, i'll assume that i can live for 500 years effortlessly without needing to avtually keep my body healthy and/or functioning properly. that leaves the question of which scenario is better. If I happen to choose to live in the past, i can accurately predict what major event happens during the time period i'm in, and based on my quick research of events that have happened in the past 500 years, i can safely conclude that the world is bad. the human civilizations in the past 500 years are all filthy, slow, and painful. if i predict what happens, best case scenario is i become an important figure in history, as i can predict what will happen in the future. worst case scenario, i'm brutally executed for the accusations of me using
dark magic to predict what will happen or for the accusations of me being a terrorist for knowing how person a or person b is going to get murdered. Either way, my condition of living is better than most, because according to the deal, i still get to live for 500 years. It feels like cheating, but a deal is a deal. I can also choose to innovate by bringing machinery and items from the future to the past, changing the world in the process. I can introduce airplanes, toasters, and even jaccuzzis and be credited as an inventor of important everyday objects needed for living in the modern day. That would be a win for sure, as it would most likely take at least 300 years to reach modern day status. I can prevent wars and such by using my knowldge of the future as to not slow down my progress. That gives me at most 200 more years to live my life in glory. If I choose to live for 500 years in the future, my living condition will most likely be the same as what it is now, unless i become a hitman and use my ability to live for exactly 500 years as an advantage. since it's 500 years into the future, I will most likely be hunted by the government to learn how exactly i'm able to live for 500 years. best case scenario if i live 500 years into the future is, exactly tommorow, tons of people around the world have scientific breakthroughs and innovate to make the world futuristic, i guess. I would get to live my life with futuristic convenience such as, actual instant noodles that you can make instantly (i hope). worst case scenario: humanity is wiped out tommorow. literal apocalypse. but luckily, i still live for 500 years, meaning that i survive ( i think). i have to live in a filthy boring and dry wasteland. ughhhhhhh that would suck. So my options are a.) gauranteed win. or b.) a gamble, where it could be super great, literally the same as today, or boring post-apocalyptic wasteland. I would have to agree with most of the comments that i've seen on this post and say: b.)
literally the apocalypse the future. It's a gamble, but the best case scenario (instant instant noodles!) and the
most likely scenario (literally the same as right now, like bruh) more than make up for it. plus, there's no 3d mario games (the only games that matter) 500 years into the past. that sucks. who wants to live in a world without mario?????
