r/hypotheticalsituation 20h ago

You have the power to switch between male and female at will.

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  • You have the power to switch between male and female at will.
  • When you are male you have masculine features (taller, shorter hair, optional facial hair, deeper voice, broader shoulders, etc).
  • When you are female you have feminine features (shorter, longer hair, no facial hair, softer voice, wider hips, etc).
  • Your skin, eye & hair color stay the same.
  • Your overall attractiveness level stays the same (eg. if you are a 7 out of 10 man, you will also be a 7 out of 10 woman).
  • If you become pregnant as a woman then switch you will not be pregnant as a man - but will still be pregnant when switching back to a woman.
  • Nobody else knows that you have this ability.
  • You can only switch when there are no witnesses and no cameras (so you cannot use this power to become famous).
  • You have ID for both versions of yourself (so you are fully able to work/travel/whatever either way).
  • You can basically live as two different people - just not at the same time.

How are you using this power? How often will you be male? How often will you be female? Any differences in how you will go about your day in each role? What is your plan to have the best possible life/lives?


r/hypotheticalsituation 17h ago

[No Loopholes] You have a bank account where the money in it doubles everyday

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You have a bank account where the money in it doubles everyday at 8 am. You start with $1, or the equivalent in your country. So on day 2 at 8 am you have $2 day 3 $4 day 4 $8 and so on. However you can not put in any money only take it out. What ever remains at 8 am is doubled. This will continue as long as there is money in there. If you ever run out of money that's it. You do not get anymore. The catch is as time goes on more and more people know who you are and will always want to be your "friend". Eventually you will become one of the most well known people in the world. You can not avoid people. Even when you have things delivered you will still have at least minimal interaction with the driver. After all your famous. Do you accept this? How long do you let it double before you start spending it? As with all rich people today there will be those that are jealous and say you should give away all of your money to the poor.

Rules:

Rule 1: You must always have money in your account for it to double

Rule 2: You can not add more money. You can only withdraw the money

Rule 3: Once the money leaves the account it does not double. So give you give your best friend $100 the next day it will still be $100.

Rule 4: Once you run out of money it is over you do not get anymore.

Rule 5: There is no way anyone can steal your money from your bank account. Not even the government can get your money while it is in the account.

Rule 6: The longer it doubles the more "popular" you become.


r/hypotheticalsituation 22h ago

Loopholes Encouraged You wake up tomorrow with a message on your phone.

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It says:

"Press ACCEPT and you'll receive $50 million tax-free."

There's only one catch.

The person who loves you the most will instantly forget you ever existed.

They'll never recognize you again.

You won't be allowed to tell them what happened.

Everyone else remembers you normally.

You only get one chance to decide.

Do you press ACCEPT?


r/hypotheticalsituation 15h ago

Loopholes Encouraged A drunk genie lets you choose one mediocre boost combo. Which do you choose?

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  1. Sleep power. You only need about 7 hours of sleep to feel as rested as you previously did after 8.
    + Once per day, you wake up within 30 seconds of your alarm.

  2. Healing. Minor injuries and common illnesses heal about 25% faster.
    + You’ll never have foodborne diarrhea. Does not cure things like IBD.

  3. Memory improves so you don’t forget things as much. About 25% of the time, you’ll remember something you otherwise would have forgotten.
    + You never lose your keys, wallet, or phone in your home.

  4. Luck improves slightly. Roughly one out of every 20 times chance would have gone against you, it instead goes your way.
    + You always pick the fastest checkout line.


r/hypotheticalsituation 10h ago

The Food Cube is a miraculous device that will feed you forever, at a cost

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Let's say that one day, a magical machine is invented: The Food Cube, a lightweight, portable device that never needs power, never needs to be refueled or restocked, and are freely available to anyone, so even if they lose or destroy their Cube, they can easily get a new one.

It's simple: Push the button on the top, and the Food Cube dispenses... a cube of food. It has the taste and texture of a saltine cracker and is about two inches on each side, but it's the last food you'll ever need. The Cube automatically adjusts the balance of nutrients, vitamins, minerals, etc etc etc within the cube to your personal needs and health requirements. It's never going to give you any form of allergic reaction, infection, or other form of gastric distress large or small. The Cube will keep you in peak dietary health, AND it's filling, too.

However, once you knowingly and willingly use a Food Cube, you become magically unable to eat anything else, ever again. You become wholly reliant on the Cube and its bland, room-temperature, slightly crunchy outputs for the remainder of your days.

Small mercies: If you can't chew, the Cube outputs easily-swallowed porridge, though it's still bland. You can put condiments on the cubes. In addition, your liquid diet has fewer restrictions; you can drink juices, smoothies, sodas, broths (excellent for dipping the cubes in), and other such foods, but nothing more solid than melted ice cream can pass your lips. If you need a hard limit, limit is "if it can't pass through the average mesh strainer, you can't eat it."

Would you use the Food Cube? Or do you enjoy regular foods too much to ever give them up?


r/hypotheticalsituation 10h ago

Serious Replies Only 5 Minutes in the Pool of Terror for 5 Billion?

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A genie gives you an offer of 5 billion dollars for 5 minutes of your time.

The genie explains that your opportunity to win will require you to spend 5 minutes floating on the surface of a massive pitch black arena pool that is 1000 feet deep and half a mile wide by half a mile long. In this pool is a 300 foot long giant squid that if it senses you, will attack and eat you. The squids spawning area is random.

Do you take the offer?


r/hypotheticalsituation 17h ago

You are approached by God, he asks you which part of the world he should save.

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God approaches you in a dream and tells you of a coming calamity. It will destroy all of humanity but you are given the power to choose one group of people or a country to save. You are not allowed to say things like the human race. Who do you save?


r/hypotheticalsituation 1h ago

Tomorrow, everyone on Earth wakes up completely honest.

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Nobody can lie for the next 24 hours.

But...

You get to choose whether you're honest too, or you're the only person who can still lie.

Which do you choose?


r/hypotheticalsituation 23h ago

You're offered the opportunity to become a multiple person

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A group of scientists contact you with an offer. They have developed a technology that allows them to clone people and distribute that person's consciousness among the clones. The technology has been tested thoroughly and they're ready to go live with the first public demonstration. You meet a unique set of parameters that make you an ideal subject. They offer to perform the procedure on you for free and provide any followup care necessary. They provide whatever assurances you require that the procedure is safe and actually works. It's not some trick.

They have enough cloning vats to make up to 9 clones of you, so you could inhabit 10 bodies if you wanted. Your consciousness would be distributed throughout whatever number of bodies you chose. The clones aren't independent entities, your consciousness would be expanded to inhabit and control all of the bodies. Your ability to multitask and focus on multiple sets of senses at once would expand, though it will take you some time to adjust. Eventually you'll be able to use all of the bodies as easily as you use your hands and feet to do separate things.

Growing the clone bodies would take about a year and the clones would be the same age as you. The procedure to expand your consciousness to all of the bodies would take about a week and you would be in a medically induced coma for that time. Once you're inhabiting all the bodies, they estimate it will take you 3-6 months to adjust and have full use of all the bodies. The bodies will all age normally. When one dies, your consciousness will "shrink" to inhabit the remaining bodies, and when the last one dies, your consciousness dies too.

This is a one-time deal. Whatever number of bodies you pick is what you get until they all die. You can't get more clones created later on.

Do you agree to the procedure and if so how many bodies do you want to inhabit? And what do you do once you have multiple bodies to control?


r/hypotheticalsituation 20h ago

Humor Encouraged you have to fight an ant, but every time you win, another ant comes to fight you that is exponentially better then the last one, how many do you think you could get through before one kills you?

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so, you and an ant have to fight in your house, the ant will spawn somewhere in the house. you goal is to kill that ant and the ants goal is to kill you. if you kill that ant, another ant will appear with the power of 2 ants, kill that one, another with the power of 4 ants, then 8, 16, you get the point, how many are you getting through?


r/hypotheticalsituation 11h ago

You're in Disneyland with thousands of other people. A special game is announced to all guests. Your goal is to be the last person in Disneyland. If someone gets touched by another person, they are out. What is your strategy for winning? (More info in description.)

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- There is a giant speaker that plays to all of the guests at Disneyland. They all get the following announcement.

- The goal is to be the final person in Disneyland and the winner shall receive 10 million dollars.

- The way someone gets eliminated from the game is if they get touched by another person. If someone is touched, they and their car are automatically teleported back to their place of residence and are officially out of the game.

- The game will start within 30 minutes of the first announcement. This gives players time to strategize, hide, or leave the park if they don't wish to participate.

- The games are suspended for 20 minutes each during 9 AM, 1 PM, and 7 PM in order to hand out free food for the guests to eat. During this time, if you tag a player, they are not out of the game.

- The bounds are inside the official Disneyland Theme Park. California Adventure and any other place such as the hotels and stores nearby that are not in the official park are not allowed.

- If someone leaves the official park, they are also officially out of the competition.

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If this game existed, what would be your strategy in order to win the game?


r/hypotheticalsituation 19h ago

If you'd never seen a baby before, would you be confused on what it is?

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I was watching wonder woman (2017) the other day and realized a couple of things

- she is the only child on the island because all the others are adult women
- this means she's never actually seen a baby
- babies look kind of weird

So my question is when she left her island with Steve and came to the human world, did she see a baby and think "what on earth is that?" I just feel like she would be confused.

So if hypothetically you grew up on an island where everyone was adults do you think you would be confused about what a baby is? If you saw one would you recognize that it's a human and think it's just deformed or would you think it's a new species?


r/hypotheticalsituation 16h ago

Would you rather have 100 million but a drawn out death or never be able to rise above middle class but guaranteed a peaceful, happy and painless death?

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Your lifespan stays the same in both scenarios. No “I’ll buy the best healthcare to live longer” or “I won’t have money to live as long.” Let’s just say you’ll die at age 85 either way. And rich or poor, lifestyle choices will reduce this as they do naturally now (substance abuse issues, reckless behavior, poor diet, etc) so you can’t choose an endless bender without reducing life span either.

On one end, you get 100 million but your death is going to be drawn out for 11 months. A terminal diagnosis, and your last months are spent in hospice as you wither away, fear of death as the moment draws closer. No extreme pain, but you will have the discomfort of dying of sickness and being bedridden.

On the other end, no matter what you do, you’ll never rise above middle class. You won’t struggle for clothing, food, shelter and whatever else comes with a middle class lifestyle, but you’ll never be rich or extravagant (no loopholes). You’ll have enough to get by at an average level, but no more. Poor choices or bad luck can still leave you poor., you can just never get wealthy.

But in exchange your death is guaranteed to be one where you die at peace, happy/fulfilled with life and simply pass in your sleep suddenly one night, entirely unexpected yet ready to go.

Which path would you choose?

Edit to add: no loopholes like suicide. Gotta face death down as intended to secure the money


r/hypotheticalsituation 17h ago

An advanced alien race orders you and your loved ones to leave Earth in 24 hours.

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You have recently done something that has greatly annoyed an advanced alien race that has been secretly watching Earth and they have ordered you and anyone associated with you (all your friends and extended family) to leave Earth in 24 hours and never return. However, instead of just killing you they will allow you to use their warp hole technology to travel to one of four Earth-like planets far away from Earth. 

  • Planet A is a barren Earth-like planet about half the size of Earth. There are no plants or animals but lots of minerals and materials you could use to build your own village. There's liquid water and the soil is fertile to grow your own food. Any seed you take from Earth will grow so you could grow Earth trees and plants on it. It's safe and there's no unknown dangers.

  • Planet B is a Earth-like planet similar in size to Earth that is full of different plants and animal species. None of the animals are as smart as humans so you will be the smartest living creature there. You will be warped to a safe zone where you can live and survive indefinitely, but you can also venture out to explore all the new plant and animal species. None of the animals are more dangerous than any existing species on Earth but there's still potential dangers. 

  • Planet C is a Earth-like planet that is twice the size of Earth that is inhabited by various humanoid alien species. They have a similar technology level to humans and there's various different countries and cities like on Earth. The planet is generally peaceful and contains various unknown animals and plants too. You can choose to become a citizen of one of various countries there. Probably the most Earth-like planet except for the other humanoid alien species.

  • Planet D is a quarter the size of Earth and is ruled by a different advanced alien species. Various other humanoid alien species live there and it's generally peaceful. The aliens have various advanced technologies like super realistic virtual reality, advanced medicine and lifespan extending technology that you are allowed to use. You will generally be free to do as you would on Earth. However, the advanced aliens technically have control over you and although they are generally peaceful you would still be under their control/authority.

All the planets have liquid water, food you can eat and a similar atmosphere to Earth. All your friends and family will be coming with you, along with anything you can bring in a backpack. You can bring your pets as well. And no, the aliens will not tell you what you did that annoyed them.

Which planet are you picking?


r/hypotheticalsituation 8h ago

You wake up in an empty reality

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You wake up one day to a world that looks exactly the same as this one but you are the only animal there. There are plants and such but everything is basically in stasis where they won't change until you interact with them. Your body also feels like it's in a type of stasis where you don't really feel fatigued or suffer from any pain from the other reality (no broken bones or chronic pains get brought with you, any injuries you may get in the empty reality will behave normally though) Technology still works because the energy and such is also in statis but it can't be used to contact the other reality.

You can feel that time moves at a different speed and you could stay for the rest of your life and only about an hour would pass in your original reality. You feel instinctively on how to leave when you want to but you know you will never be able to come back.

How long would you stay and what would you do?

EDIT: While you age normally in the other reality you would revert back to the age you arrived when you go back to your original reality.


r/hypotheticalsituation 1h ago

[No Loopholes] Choose out of three choices- Money, Regenerative or knowledge?

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Choose one of the three options carefully.

Money

You receive £150,000 per month (or the equivalent amount in your country’s currency).

This money is not affected by taxes, inflation, VAT, or any similar deductions. It is yours to keep and use freely.

Regeneration

Humans gain the ability to naturally regenerate any missing organs, cells, or limbs.

Any disease or illness you develop is automatically cured. New tissue grows at the normal rate of wound healing, meaning complex parts like entire limbs may take months or even years to fully regenerate.

The effects also reverse aging signs: wrinkles fade, and your body remains youthful. You are effectively immortal, but the only thing that isn’t cured- are allergies, everybody gets one, you know what yours is and the only people that know are the ones which you tell, and that is the only way you can die.

This ability also applies to any existing medical conditions you have before choosing this option.

Knowledge

You receive a message, letter, or any other form of communication that reveals the exact date, time, and cause of your death.


r/hypotheticalsituation 2h ago

[No Loopholes] All good looking people turn very unattractive, and all unattractive people turn very good looking... what happens now?

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Imagine if, tomorrow, every single good looking person on the planet woke up to find they have become ugly looking, and it's permanent. At the same time, all unattractive people wake up to find they are very good looking. (Average looking people remain average.)

How quickly would things change for these two groups? And what exactly would change? What things WOULDN'T change? This could be an interesting discussion.


r/hypotheticalsituation 24m ago

You Get To Be The World's Most Famous & Successful Music Artist Selling Out Any Venue You Play, But No One EVER Shows Up To Your Shows And You Have To Perform Every Time

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Pretty much the same as the subject header to this post: you're the world's most famous music artist. Top-selling and you sell out every venue you play at, but outside of roadies, assistants and tech crews absolutely no one shows up to your shows. Not a single fan in the audience. And you *have* to perform live, each and every show.

Outside of this you reap the benefits that most celebrities get: private jets, luncheons and parties with other famous people, all too polite to bring up or ask about the fact that no one oddly ever shows up to your shows. No one ever attends your signing events, either. In joint events with other artists and celebrities, none of your fans show up.

Do you accept that life?


r/hypotheticalsituation 23h ago

Serious Replies Only To everyone who’s in a long term relationship/married — what would happen if your partner divorced you now?

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What would your position be? Move out and find your own place? Move in with your parents? What about your kids? How do you seperated your assets? Do you start looking for new love right away or enjoy single life first?


r/hypotheticalsituation 3h ago

A shaman bashes you over the head and you wake on an alternate Earth identical to this one, except you were never born. The government coverup handles your identity issue and a temporary place to stay, but other than that you're on your own. What do you do? How do you bounce back from this?

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You'll have the place for about a year without having to pay for it, and a small allowance for that time (~$1000/mo). Since you can't prove any of your previous work experience or qualifications you'll have an uphill battle once that's over. Your friends and family still exist but don't know you. You're starting from zero essentially.

What do you do? How do you bounce back from this?


r/hypotheticalsituation 15h ago

Humor Encouraged Whenever you click, a person that you choose will always, some how trip up. They will never significantly hurt or injure themselves, and the only thing they suffer from is embarrassment when seen. How will you use this power? This can also be done on people you see on the internet or television.

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r/hypotheticalsituation 4h ago

In exchange for 3 wishes, you are to fight a prime version of yourself to the death.

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The person you will fight to the death is the hypothetically peak version of yourself.

They have the same life experiences and knowledge as you do but went through some rough self improvement. Either physically or mentally.

Fairness is enforced. If you wish to fight him/her with your barehands, then so will he/she.

Use of weapons are permitted but so will he/she.

For 3 wishes, Do you accept?


r/hypotheticalsituation 1h ago

The apocalypse happens...

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A zombie apocalypse has actually hit the world. There's a total breakdown of society as hundreds of thousands of old friends and neighbours stalk the land in huge packs looking to eat brain. It's a total shitshow.

Would you rather;

  1. Be part of a survival group, roaming the land looking for safety but never finding it. Forever on the edge of starvation or death through brain-devourment. Your few friends regularly die beside you and it could be you next. Every 'alive' you meet might be a friend, or just as dangerous as the zombies. There are very few pleasures in life.

  2. You are the one surviving servant for a billionaire family that has sort refuge underground in a luxurious bunker. Food is plentiful, but you are the only non-family member of the group and all the dangers of that situation are present. You are relatively safe from zombies, but live in a world devoid of entertainment or variety. It's the same food, same people, same small servant quarters which you're confined to in your little personal time. Monotony is your life and you are the least powerful person in your living circle. There are very few pleasures in life.

  3. You die falling from a tall building early in the apocalypse. You die in terror, but it's a clean, relatively painless death. You never experience the forthcoming horrors.

  4. You are bitten early and become one of the walking dead. You have no real self-will, but you also feel no pain or emotion, except when you eat man-flesh, from which you derive immense pleasure.

These are your 4 choices. Choose wisely.


r/hypotheticalsituation 6h ago

The only way you can die, is due to an external factor, for example an accident, getting eaten by a predator, shot/stabbed, or struck by lightning. Your cells simply won't decline in function or "age". What would you do?

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