Knight Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Generally I dislike these questions unless they are they hold my interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riariadne Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 almost without exception, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceflare Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 It depends. I won't answer it if it's meant to force me to choose something stupid and then point and laugh at me for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightmare Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 when they're really stupid and extreme, oh yes Yup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Wright Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 i haven't played "would you rather" in a long time, but i enjoyed it because of its stupidity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKLucas531 Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 yeah esp. because it's almost always so they can go "ew you'd do that???" immediately after, if it's like the example question Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makaze Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Depends on the options. A lot of choices in life are between two negatives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freohr Datia Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Actually, a lot of them are a mix of both positives and negatives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makaze Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Actually, a lot of them are a mix of both positives and negatives Is that directed at me? If so, I know. But those rare occasions where you are forced between a rock a hard place do exist sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 A lot of those rare tsk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makaze Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 tsk Personally, I can think of a troubling number of realistic scenarios like that. Doesn't have to be most to be a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 while your statement is true i do not consider "thirty percent" to be "rare" while i do consider it to be "a lot" this is because "rare" and "a lot" are basically mutually exclusive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makaze Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 while your statement is true i do not consider "thirty percent" to be "rare" while i do consider it to be "a lot" this is because "rare" and "a lot" are basically mutually exclusive You've caught me trying to appeal to both sides of the situation. I don't consider them that rare at all, but it seems Freohr does. If she's going to contradict me, I figure it's best to find a compromise on her terms than force my own, especially if our experiences are different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 ok lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadFighter Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 I'm the person who makes the questions so not really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peener weener Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Depends on the options. A lot of choices in life are between two negatives. there's never just two choices in life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makaze Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 (edited) there's never just two choices in life. True, but realistically... Take the prisoner's dilemma. You could argue that a third option might be to attack the prison guards and stage an escape but there are rational reasons for discarding those types of options. Edited October 16, 2014 by Makaze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peener weener Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 (edited) True, but realistically... Take the prisoner's dilemma. You could argue that a third option might be to attack the prison guards and stage an escape but there are rational reasons for discarding those types of options. the prisoner's dilemma is entirely hypothetical and contrived. edit: i understand you don't mean literally the prisoner's dilemma but the way it is presented in real, tangible life, but even then, it never is as simple as that. but i guess this is more a clash of ideologies. you've said before you see life as a zero-sum game, and i just... don't, so this discussion is probably best left here Edited October 16, 2014 by fuccboi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rehab Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 If there's a clear common thread between the choices, and the buildup to the question that basically asks the responder to look at two sides of a particular issue in whatever capacity the asker's trying to get at, I don't really think it's a substitute for actually discussing/teaching that issue from the ground up, but I can endure them existing in certain contexts I guess (though it's a kind of device that even in that specific usage pretty much invariably gets nuances wrong, and yeah, it tends to restrict actual perspectives that complex individuals (as in any individual person ever) might realistically have, in an uncomfortable and even unnecessary way) If it's just, I dunno, between two fucking awful totally unrelated things, then unless I can accidentally make something out of it (and sorta also in those situations anyway), screw em Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Refa Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinjaMonkey Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moira Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 while your statement is true i do not consider "thirty percent" to be "rare" while i do consider it to be "a lot" this is because "rare" and "a lot" are basically mutually exclusive I mean there are rare diseases but a lot of people have just because there's so many dang people, and there are a lot of decisions made in your life so the same applies there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Alear Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 I usually don't like them, but they usually don't offend my sensibilities. Sometimes the proposed hypothetical is just so awful however... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacLovin Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 meh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor Odinson Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 I dislike most hypotheticals that aren't relevant to my interests, studies, or related to rejecting the null hypothesis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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