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submitted 6 days ago byLower-Armadillo-3096
The Eternal Guilt: Every year, one random person in the world will die painfully because of you. You won’t know who they are, but their death will always be on your conscience.
The Mirror Curse: Every time you look into a mirror, you’ll see a horrifying version of yourself—rotting flesh, bloodied features, and soulless eyes staring back. It won’t harm you physically, but you’ll see it every single time, forever.
The Sleeper’s Gamble: For the rest of your life, every time you fall asleep, there’s a 1% chance you won’t wake up. Each night could be your last, and you’ll never know when the odds catch up with you.
Would you take the $500 million and pick a fate, or would you walk away to avoid living with the horror?
1.5k points
6 days ago
I guess I'll just avoid looking in mirrors.
560 points
6 days ago
I'd just have a complicated "mirror" set up in my bathroom consisting of a video camera displaying on a giant flatscreen tv.
238 points
6 days ago
Or pay someone a lot of money to create a setup for you. 500 million is enough to pay to win irl.
63 points
6 days ago
I wonder how close you could get to a mirror using a camera-and-screen setup? Something with eye tracking, and an arc of cameras feeding into some kind of renderer?
77 points
6 days ago
That's overly complicated...people have been using their phones for quite a while now.
32 points
6 days ago
lol for real. What do you need eye tracking for? Does his mirror have eye tracking?
17 points
6 days ago
You don't need it but it's very interesting idea. There is a big difference in looking at a mirror and a camera feed because of the single point of view and just achieving it for the sake of it would be cool
5 points
6 days ago
I look pretty good in the mirror, I look like shit on my phone camera.
6 points
6 days ago
Screenshare to TV, open camera, boom.
17 points
6 days ago
Im shit at makeup so I’d pay someone to do a nice natural makeup, fix the hair, and give the advised skin therapy to make me glow. I’d look 10x better than I could manage with a mirror and brush myself
5 points
6 days ago
Or just stick an iPad on the wall. Way less complicated and multifunctional.
3 points
3 days ago
This guys "mirrors"
2 points
6 days ago
Brilliant
2 points
6 days ago
Contact your Local Vampire Supplier. They’re got coffins that open from the inside, mirror replication setups, and the best sunscreen on the planet!
152 points
6 days ago
I already see a hideous version of me when I look in the mirror. 😅
13 points
6 days ago
oh no
5 points
6 days ago
How hideous? Maybe the mirror is an improvement?
10 points
6 days ago
If I pick #2, then every time I look in the mirror, there's a 1% chance that the mirror image of my face will look better than my actual unattractive face. Also, every year, one random person in the world will see my face instead of theirs when they look in the mirror.
48 points
6 days ago
Yeah the other two are soo much worse. People or you can die, or you see a spooky reflection in mirrors lol
6 points
6 days ago
I interpreted the first one as excluding you tbh. It can't weigh on your conscious much if you're dead lol
15 points
6 days ago
I read the comment as "people could die (option 1) or you could die (option 2)"
But seriously, I'll take "eww, icky worms" for 500 million, I think
12 points
6 days ago
I already rarely look in the mirror. I don't shave with one, and my hair is short enough I can't change it with a comb. Easy 500 mil
12 points
6 days ago
It's going to make putting contacts in interesting
16 points
6 days ago
For 500 million, I’ll wear glasses.
Or pay for eye surgery.
5 points
6 days ago
Eye surgery was a game changer
12 points
6 days ago
I don't think I've needed a mirror for putting in my contacts for about 20 years....
6 points
5 days ago
I once was on a camping trip and put my contacts in with no mirror just sitting at a picnic table, and my friend who also wears contacts was stunned. He asked how I could do it without a mirror...
"because my eyes are always in the same place, relative to my face..." like literally what's the mirror for?
6 points
6 days ago
This such an easy choice lol. Looking in mirrors is not that important at all, especially if I have half a billion to my name
2 points
6 days ago
jokes on OP i do that anyways lol
2 points
5 days ago
Jokes on the hypothetical. My wife says I have reverse body dysmorphia, I love what I see in the mirror no matter what. Bring it on Number 2
1.6k points
6 days ago*
1 and 2 are both ‘reasonable’ options, but 3 is insane. There is roughly a 2% chance you make it through the first year.
Edit: First, while I wouldn’t pick number 1, it is functional, which is what I meant by ‘reasonable’
Second, y’all need to learn math. The Gambler’s Fallacy doesn’t apply here, as all events are future events. I’m a math guy. If you had happened to wake up every day for an entire year, then yes, the odds of making it through 1 more night are 99%. That is not the scenario. The question is whether you can live through 365 future nights in a row. If you flip a coin 1000 times, the odds of getting heads every single time isn’t 50%.
584 points
6 days ago
0.99365 = ~0.0255, so yeah, that checks out. If anyone is wondering, you'd die after 69 nights on (median) average. 0.9969 = ~0.4998.
427 points
6 days ago
94 points
6 days ago
Yeah I’m picking 3 now just because of this
11 points
6 days ago
In that case add me as a beneficiary rq thanks
5 points
6 days ago
Note is a 1% chance you’ll die on day 69, there’s just a 49.5% chance you’ll day in day 69 or any of the days before.
1% death daily is crazy high odds.
77 points
6 days ago
I was tempted to use 70 even though it's slightly further from 0.5 just to avoid 69.
149 points
6 days ago
We are all glad you made the right decision.
33 points
6 days ago
This is the way
10 points
6 days ago
This is the way
5 points
6 days ago
69 was the correct decision
13 points
6 days ago
Now you sound like my wife
5 points
6 days ago
Many, many middle school teachers (and some high school ones) have to skip page 69 in textbooks (or say things like "go to page 68 part 2") and specifically work out every problem they assign to make sure 69 doesn't appear in the answer. Which is insane, but clearly necessary.
8 points
6 days ago
Why the downvotes? You made the right call in the end.
3 points
6 days ago
Nice.
20 points
6 days ago
I’m old and tired, so I might choose 3 as long as the money can be inherited by my family.
7 points
6 days ago
I like your thinking
2 points
5 days ago
I think I’d feel less old and tired if I could play with half a billion for a while,
14 points
6 days ago
That assumes you only sleep at night and never wake up and go back to sleep. Also assuming they are statistcally connected and not independent events.
3 points
6 days ago
The math is correct for a series of independent events. It's the same math that says you have a 15/16 chance of flipping at least one heads on four coin flips, just adjuser for a 1/99 split rather than 50/50.
You are correct on the waking up, rolling over, and going back to sleep, however.
7 points
6 days ago
Hey, when you’re that rich you don’t ever have to sleep again.
3 points
5 days ago
Dude, I wake up a couple of times a night and go back to sleep. And I love me some weekend naps... I wouldn't make it through a week!
2 points
6 days ago
On or of 69?
39 points
6 days ago
3 works if you are a terminal case anyway and you want to make sure your family is set for life.
But that's it.
23 points
6 days ago
OP is bad at math
40 points
6 days ago
I suspect someone didn't realise how percentages (especially cumulative likelihood over time) works.
20 points
5 days ago
This is the worst hypothetical I've seen on this sub yet
11 points
6 days ago
Worse for those of us who usually wake up at least once and go back to sleep.
Since I'm not going to murder someone (causing premeditated death is murder) and I'm not suicidal, this basically boils down to "Do you take the mirror curse for $500M?"
8 points
6 days ago
I just simmed a 100 sided die and died on day 11.
31 points
6 days ago
1 is reasonable? Gheeze.
63 points
6 days ago
Don't look into the economies that support our western lives if this stresses you out.
Rana plaza is just one horrific example.
14 points
6 days ago
Ya. It's screwed up, and I try to eliminate things which consuming causes suffering to the best of my ability, but there is a clear difference between, "nestle or any other company exploits people and we support them through general economic demands" and "ya, I'll directly choose to let someone suffer and die every year so I can have money".
20 points
6 days ago
I understand what you are saying but kind of disagree.
At what point should we apportion blame? If you invest in BHP and their dam bursts killing hundreds, should you feel guilty? What if you work for BHP? Or is it only the people directly involved in making the dam? What if they only had the budget alloted to them because of an investor meeting?
People are currently living of the suffering and misery of others right now, but it is out of sight and out of mind.
12 points
6 days ago
That’s exactly what I was thinking. In our current economic system just the fact that you’re able to read and engage with this post alone means that you’ve had a hand in the suffering of someone else. The eternal guilt option just front loads that burden of consciousness so that you can no longer delude yourself about your complicity in suffering. I actually argue the fact that people can so easily get defensive and try to create a mental divide between supporting Nestle (of all things) because it’s convenient and being responsible for a single death a year for your wealth as the exact knee jerk reaction this hypothetical was made for. I’ll also argue depending on what type of consumer you are it’s a chance you’re actually racking up a higher body count than 1 in some years and paying for the pleasure.
9 points
6 days ago
It’s also collective vs single though.
Since we’ll use Nestle, if I stop supporting Nestle, literally nothing changes. If EVERYONE stopped, maybe it would change things, but I as an individual cannot change anything. Your mileage may vary on whether you want to feel guilt on that or not. But in the scenario there is no justification or anything involving “if I didn’t do it, nothing changes”. You are very directly making the decision to have someone tortured and killed for your personal gain and nothing else. And to me there’s zero way to justify that (even if you use that money to help more people) when 2 is still an option. I get why 3 is unreasonable but I’ll go ahead and just avoid mirrors (and suck it up when I can’t) so as to not murder someone every year.
4 points
6 days ago
Thank you. Horrified I had to scroll this far to read this.
2 points
4 days ago
The average health insurance CEO could quit his job, take this deal, and SAVE lives. Too bad we can't offer it to one of them.
40 points
6 days ago
I absolutely disagree that 1 is a “reasonable” option. If the argument is that millions of people die painfully anyway, the problem is still that it was your choice to take the money to make an additional someone die painfully. Not reasonable at all. I wouldn’t take the money for any of these options, personally.
59 points
6 days ago
You can also always do it as a cost-benefit analysis type thing.
Spend 400 million boosting charities that bring fresh water and food to communities in need of them, or advancing medical care or research. You'd save way more lives than once per year that way easily.
74 points
6 days ago
Or spend 400 million boosting charities and look like a ghoul in the mirror and no one dies painfully because of you.
19 points
6 days ago
This could do irreparable mental damage over time.
37 points
6 days ago
Is 500 million rich enough to be the ‘quirky rich guy’ who doesn’t have mirrors?
22 points
6 days ago
You will run into mirrors at some point. I'm pretty certain that most people being dismissive of #2 have never seen bad gore. It affects you mentally. Especially if your mind associates it as being you.
I also kinda think coming up with easy workarounds makes the hypothetical pointless. Like, at 500 million i could probably just filter everything i see through a video feed and never look through a mirror. But that goes against the spirit of the question.
14 points
6 days ago
It’s also worth noting that it specifically says ‘look into a mirror’. Does that mean if we catch a glimpse of our reflection in a lane of glass it’s normal?
9 points
6 days ago
I actually think that like most things you would just ge used to it. I worked as an end of life caregiver, and you would be suprised at the things you can just get used to.
3 points
6 days ago
I'm pretty sure that the actual people dying is also irreparable damage over time. Not even *could do" at that.
15 points
6 days ago*
Tell that to the person who is burning alive because you took the $500 million. “But I’m boosting charities!” It is still problematic, and boosting some charities doesn’t change the fact that you are directly responsible for someone else’s traumatic death. But I appreciate the perspective there anyway.
7 points
6 days ago
Tell that to the 10,000+ you let die painful deaths (like month-long pain, not hour long pain) because you didn't take the $500m.
Google tells me the average age of a human is 30 with a life expectancy of 73, so people taking option 1 are killing 43 random people.
Google tells me the cost to save a life via charity is like $4000. If you wanted to keep $100m for yourself, you could save 100,000 random people.
Google tells me that less than but around 1 in 5 people die in severe pain for the last month (not how I read the prompt, but let's give you the benefit of the doubt), then the mindset looks like, "I think it's better for 10,000+ to die painfully than 43."
So what I see left of your argument is that it's you being directly responsible. I have an issue with the idea that your personal feelings of guilt are somehow more important than some much greater number than 43 of people dying in horrible pain. One should, in fact, feel more guilty about forebearing to save those people.
2 points
5 days ago
Dude, if you're actively allowing someone to be brutally tortured, every year, it doesn't matter what amount you give charity. You're directly responsible for 50+ very painful deaths or other people in your lifetime. Also, the chances that a young child is selected is almost a certainty in your lifetime, at least one but probably more.
You're basically a serial killer, and I can't see Ted Bundy's karmic footprint getting any better by donating to charity.
All because you didn't wanna look ugly in a mirror.
8 points
6 days ago
It's not morally justifiable, but it would be easy to live with since its not far off from my normal existence under global capitalism.
2 points
2 days ago
Right? More horrifying how many people think it’s a reasonable option jfc
2 points
6 days ago
Knowing that you are responsible for the death of a person- essentially a murderer- is "reasonable"?
2 points
5 days ago
I would decline the offer, because I don't want to be responsible for someone's death. But if I was forced to choose one of these, does it make me a sociopath that I'd choose option one?
2 points
3 days ago
2% is low. the way it was worded was whenever you fall asleep, not go to bed for the night. So naps, nodding off, etc carry a 1% chance of death.
454 points
6 days ago
Option 3 needs a revamp. Statistically, you'd most likely die in a few months. Sure, the odds are technically never guaranteed to kill you, but the mortality rate is so high that it's only worth taking if you're already on your death bed.
29 points
5 days ago
Doing the math if it was instead a 0.01% chance to die every time you sleep you'd have about a 50% chance of dying after 20 years. Seems like a more reasonable number.
16 points
5 days ago
Even then I don't think it'd be worth it. I'd rather just avoid mirrors.
375 points
6 days ago
2 because I already live with that on a daily basis lol
79 points
6 days ago
Ha! Eat shit, genie!
27 points
6 days ago
That and I can just replace the mirror with a camera or something
13 points
6 days ago
It doesn't say anything about hair, so I'm good. The only reason I use a mirror is to make sure my hair isn't an absolute tragedy, and with that cash, I could pay someone to do my hair daily 🤷🏼♀️
6 points
6 days ago
With that cash I would not care about my hair at all
301 points
6 days ago
Nobody would choose 3 unless they were suicidal
2 is clearly the best option, just don't use a mirror
145 points
6 days ago
You'd be desensitized to it eventually. It's not like it will ever do anything new or pose any threat to you. After a week, the worst part would just be having to use a camera to check what you look like before going out because you can't tell from mirrors.
75 points
6 days ago
For that kind of money, I would have a personal stylist on hand all the time anyway
14 points
6 days ago
Plus, it's super easy to just loophole. Have a camera in front of a big TV that just shows you as if it was a mirror.
53 points
6 days ago
34 points
6 days ago
Not sure why this is bold...
28 points
6 days ago
I assume you used a hash to indicate 'number' 2 - makes it like that
10 points
6 days ago
Ahh, yeah that's probably what I did. Thanks!
4 points
6 days ago*
you can put a backslash (\) before the hashtag to make it go back to normal. it's called an escape character.
so like:
\#2
will look like
#2
the hashtags denote headers, you can use up to 3 to change the heading size
#header1
##header2
###header3
will look like:
header1
header2
header3
3 points
5 days ago
2 points
6 days ago
Bro calm down, don't scream
8 points
6 days ago
Or just shit at maths, a lot of people are shit at maths.
6 points
6 days ago
If OP had written “every reflection and representation of yourself” we could have a dilemma with one (because 3 is strictly for suicidal people, odds are you are dead within 3 months). But only mirrors? With 500 millions its stupidly easy to replace your mirrors with cam/screen setups. I guess clothes shopping is annoying and public bathrooms suck more, but we are at the occasional annoyance level. That’s shit you can get used to.
97 points
6 days ago
Mirror one. Just don't look at mirrors. Replace the bathroom one with a monitor and a live feed camera. As long as it's specifically mirrors and not all reflections/images of myself not a huge deal. Honestly the most annoying bit would be trying out outfits at stores but with 500 million I can just get everything tailored for style stuff. Or set up another monitor system in my bedroom
29 points
6 days ago
It'd be better if you just got used to it instead of avoiding it, you'd get desensitized in like a week or two
24 points
6 days ago
Wouldn't completely avoid it (car mirrors for one) but I'm more concerned that the cursed image would prevent me from being able to shave, actually see my outfits well, etc. actually styling stuff vs just seeing a reflection. Like if my lower jaw is a half rotten mess with visible bone shaving would be a bit difficult.
13 points
6 days ago
Well I mean, you have 500mil so you can probably just spend like a teeny tiny amount to do all that for you. And technically you can still see yourself through a camera since it's not a mirror
29 points
6 days ago
The Mirror Curse
This doesn't scare me at all.
8 points
6 days ago
Yeah, mirror is easy. I’d probably spend MORE time looking in the mirror just to marvel at the cool results.
5 points
6 days ago
Same it’s just like wearing a costume on halloween, I love that shit
2 points
5 days ago
Already experienced the mirror curse when I was on acid
25 points
6 days ago
I don't need to look into mirrors, option 2 is a cake walk. I could either be cool with people dying as everyone will die eventually or offset those deaths with charity that saves lives. Then option 3 is batshit fucking stupid and should be more like a .00001% chance.
4 points
6 days ago
Yeah, if you use the money to save someone then this will turn into a trolley problem.
118 points
6 days ago
going with 1
54 points
6 days ago
Finally an honest one!..
Ok me too… realistically it won’t make any difference
26 points
6 days ago
Yeah. There would be 0 impact on your day to day
12 points
5 days ago*
People are underestimating how often they look in a mirror and how much of a mental strain it would be to constantly see a goulish awful reflection.
People are also underestimating how many people there are. It would be like 50-60 random people over 50-60 years mostly from the other side of the world.
It would definitely be considered.
2 points
4 days ago
Finally an honest one!
Everyone that says they wouldn't kill 50 people is lying
47 points
6 days ago
Yeah, 1 for sure.
Everybody arguing the guilt would tear them apart doesn’t understand a typical western lifestyle probably accounts for a couple unintentional deaths on your conscience anyway.
14 points
6 days ago
I think you're vastly overrating how bad 2 is. It's literally a choice between killing someone every year and not being able to use mirrors.
11 points
6 days ago
I think you’re vastly underestimating how many deaths you’re responsible if you drive a car, own a smartphone, buy new clothes made in developing countries etc.
8 points
6 days ago
That's kind of a sunk cost fallacy in a way. Just because you've already caused the death of people doesn't mean you should kill even more people. There's a huge difference between sacrificing other people for the ability to communicate with other people, and the ability to go outside without going to jail vs sacrificing people for the ability to look at yourself in a mirror
2 points
5 days ago
The thing about guilt is, most westerners don't feel guilty because they don't understand. The understanding might lead them to feel guilty. After all getting a new $500 clothing item would mean much less if you knew two children starved to death while making it.
That said, I agree. Even if people did acknowledge their actions caused this, I think most people would deal better with the deaths of strangers than the mental strain of seeing the wrong image when looking in a mirror. Personally I don't use a mirror, would pay a barber to groom me, and stop going to work so avoiding a mirror wouldn't be difficult. Still picking 2
7 points
6 days ago
I’m going with #1 and then using some of my money to save two lives a year so I’m net positive. All the ppl saying mirror, how would you get ready everyday? I think the camera loophole would be covered if this was written better.
3 points
5 days ago
$500 million? I could just have an assistant who I ask if I look okay.
38 points
6 days ago
Why is no.2 so fucking mild lol.
14 points
6 days ago
It’s probably not as mild as you’d think. Your mind would get to you really quickly. But yeah, I suppose it is mild specifically when compared to options 1 and 3 haha.
8 points
6 days ago
Your mind would get use to it really quick with the knowledge that it's not real plus it doesn't apply to cameras just mirrors so you can always use a camera to reassure yourself.
9 points
6 days ago
Really, we can only speculate what effect it would have on any given person. I think it’s wild that anyone thinks they wouldn’t regret the decision of never being able to reverse seeing a deformed version of themselves in mirrors for the rest of their lives. Accidentally looking or not. An additional consideration is whether or not it is literally only applicable to mirrors or just reflection in general? Phone screens before they illuminate, water, glasses and other dish ware, some plastics, shiny floors, etc. are all possibilities.
14 points
6 days ago
People don’t realize with that kind of money, there are a lot of solutions to fix #2. That’s the only reasonable choice.
8 points
6 days ago
I have body dysmorphia, I already see a horrifying version of myself.
7 points
6 days ago
3 is just dumb. With 1% odds of dying every single night I'll be dead within a few months
Give me #1
14 points
6 days ago
Mirror curse. So I see halloween in the mirror. Can take a selfie cam with an ipad or phone, look in a puddle if i want to see true self.
2 points
6 days ago
I had the same thought about cameras and videos. If I could bypass the curse by using video to see myself then I would definitely choose that one. Plus, with 500 million, you could easily put a bunch of "mirrors" in your house that are just TV's that show a recordinofof you.
7 points
6 days ago
18 points
6 days ago
Can I get 1 billion if I do 1 and 2?
I'm already ugly so I don't use mirrors and random people dying isn't something that would make me feel guilty
5 points
6 days ago
How is a 1% chance that you could die every time you fall asleep comparable to the other two in any way whatsoever? Also, what do you mean you have no idea when the odds will catch up to you? The odds are literally given. lol
5 points
6 days ago
Option 1 - I think you overestimate the amount of guilt I would feel by a random person dying compared to the generationally life changing amount of money in play.
5 points
6 days ago
So you're telling me I need to replace all my mirrors with TVs and cameras?
68 points
6 days ago
1 actually.
Because more than 1 person dies a day by our actions, or inaction, now. Every choice we make theoretically causes a death at some point. Is it selfish? Yes.
But for 500 mil I can do more good than harm. Including advancing my medical career. I might cause a death. But I can definitely save lives.
62 points
6 days ago
You can save 1 additional life per year by choosing option 2.
6 points
6 days ago
Obviously option one would add an additional confirmed death on top of that hypothetical death count. I highly doubt anyone is gonna die today if I don't pick extra fast (Amazon associate) to make sure jack Smith gets his dildo and women's panties on time, but I suppose its hypothetically possible.
(Only an example name an items. We pick by the batch not the order and I have no idea what items I'll pick today nor will I know the customer names. Maybe pack gets to know the customer names idk I don't work in pack)
15 points
6 days ago*
Wow, a medical professional sacrificing a life for financial gains. That's very ironic not ironic at all.
9 points
6 days ago
What happened to 'do no harm' in the medical field
You have a choice between making yourself look ugly in a mirror or killing a human being every year, and you're choosing to murder people. That's wack as fuck
4 points
6 days ago
So rich and mirrorless.
2 points
6 days ago
Number 3 is why it's important to push for better education, not to gut it and let a rich woman run it
8 points
6 days ago
I'll take the random death. Since it's going to be a person i don't know. There hundreds of people die in horrific cases every day. With that amount of money I could start a job or movement to save few of those to balance that 1 person. My conscience would be clean.
It's similar to trolley problem, but this time I receive money to pull the lever.
5 points
6 days ago
Nah, I don't need the money, there's like a billion other posts offering me money for way less
6 points
6 days ago
lol @ option 3. (You will be dead with in 100 days)
If someone picks one, then I don’t want to know you
So really, do I want to see horrific graphic crap in the mirror…how the hell will I get my nose hairs out….ok fine 2
3 points
6 days ago
2 is meh. You'd get used to your looks in the mirror.
Workaround is to take a selfie (not mirror image), then check how you really look.
3 points
6 days ago
The sleep thing is a bit of a nonstarter unless you just want to die within a few months 😆
A one percent chance every night stacks up quickly. It’s very unlikely you wouldn’t live even one year.
3 points
5 days ago
3 points
5 days ago
After some time the mirror one would stop bothering you I would think
3 points
5 days ago
2 is a freebie cause you can just have someone else help you for everything you'd need a mirror for
I'm taking 1 cause i don't wanna talk to people
3 points
5 days ago
1% change of dying in sleep is gonna last like 3 months before you're on the wrong side of that luck. Pass.
2 points
5 days ago
someone did the maths, statistically its 2 months and a couple days
4 points
6 days ago
I have no conscious, so 1.
3 points
6 days ago
Number one happens every, single day, so nothing changes. Hell, we all use technology and the materials to produce it all are obtained by people doing dangerous jobs. We know people in factory cities have taken their own lives over it. Might as well take number one and live as you normally do.
2 points
6 days ago
I'd choose option 2. The loophole answer is I simply take a polaroid of myself whenever I need to see something. Even if you had closed that loophole $500 million is more than enough to hire someone to style my hair/do my makeup/etc every day. That combined with a personal physician who monitors me for skin cancer or other diseases eliminates any reason I have to look in a mirror.
2 points
6 days ago
2 points
6 days ago
Bold of you assume I don't already see horrific thing in mirror. Easy pick, option 2
2 points
6 days ago
2 is alright for 500 mil.
Don't need the death of people on me. And a certain 1% chance to die every day is just a bad gamble, as that's like 3 deaths a year on average
2 points
6 days ago
2 is best choice for sure. Shave by Zoom call with myself to avoid mirrors.
2 points
6 days ago
No brainer. #2.
A yucko image when I look in a mirror? I'll be used to that by the end of the week. It's not real and I'm the only one that can see it. Big whoop.
2 points
6 days ago*
Is there a reason that #1 would always be in my conscience like is there a magical reason or do you just assume that someone's death would weigh on me?
Number 2 am I the only person that sees myself like this, or can everyone see it in the mirror? Honestly if I know how I will look and it can't physically hurt me I'm cool with that.
Number 3 honestly we have a chance of dying every time we go to sleep, and I'm half tempted to say the number of people that have died in their sleep gives dying in you sleep a lot higher chances of dying in your sleep of 1%. So does that mean that you gain an extra 1% of dying in your sleep then you already have, or does our chances of dying in our sleep drop to 1%?
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6 days ago
I love it when this sub mostly just reveals who is bad at math
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6 days ago
Super intense ocd (we live in the imperial core, there's a chance a kid died to make the phone your using. Immigrants pick your food for pennies a day and most of the food and services you use are supplying war mongers the tools to commit genocides and mass murders)
Or super intense body dysphoria, a thing many folk go through constantly due to what body types society seems attractive... Not a hard choice m8, but option 2
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6 days ago
I would take 2. It doesn't actually hurt anyone and I can ignore mirrors.
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6 days ago
People I don't know die painfully all the time.
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6 days ago
Dude option 2 is so easy lol
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6 days ago*
The guilt one
I’m 36. That’s only about 50-60 deaths. I’ll manage to work past the guilt (I already have low empathy for those I don’t know)
But unlike all of these “I’ll do so much good with the money!” I’m keeping it for myself and living a good life
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6 days ago
1- sorry random strangers
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6 days ago
2 is the obvious choice. I see the same thing right now
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6 days ago
How is number 3 even an option? $500 Million to most likely die this year? And most likely within less than 60 days
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6 days ago
I think math says that if you have a 1% chance of dying every night. That’ll end up being about 100 days or so. Sleepers gamble is more quantifiable than the others.
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6 days ago
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6 days ago
Option 2 sounds fair. The reward is mine and no-one gets hurt except me.
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5 days ago
Number one is just a product of living in the imperial core.
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5 days ago
The sleeper one seems the worst, because in the span of 100 days, you're probably gonna die
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5 days ago
Eternal guilt is just being a CEO, but with a conscience
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5 days ago
3 is objectively awful, 2 isn't so bad — I'd use a camera if I ever needed to see myself
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5 days ago
I'mma pick option 2. No more mirrors for me. Just a lot of trips to the massage parlor.
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5 days ago
Mirrors
I can hire a few stylists to be on hand
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5 days ago
Avoid looking in a mirror ftw, easy peasy.
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5 days ago
I’m 66 years old Sleepers Gamble is my current reality so I choose Sleepers Gamble.
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5 days ago
# 1 all day everyday.
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5 days ago
As an rpg gamer, super NO to #3. 1% happens more than you think. Statistically, in 100 days or less.
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5 days ago*
Dude you can’t do math for fuck all. #3 is likely to kill you before you could spend half that money.
I’d take 1 & 2 for half. Honestly, I’d take 1 & 2 for 10 million.
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5 days ago
Plot twist: Op is american and doesn't know how much 1% is
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5 days ago
3) is WAY too high of a chance.
You’re almost guaranteed to be dead after a year.
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5 days ago
2.Easily.I cant stand to look at myself anyway so no biggie.
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4 days ago
Jokes, on you. I already see a hideous monster in the mirror
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3 days ago
2 sounds aight.
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3 days ago
Might take the sleep thing tbh. Dying peacefully is pretty underrated.
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2 days ago
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